Rotating through feelings in five-minute stints. Sadness. Aunt Sylvia may be dying. Anger. I told Chas this vacation wouldn’t work.…
Month: December 2012
Meaningful Vacation
Driving the Vegas Strip. Facades. Costumes. False advertising. Traffic. We inch past a man in an Elvis costume. He stands…
Judith: Hanukah Heroine in Art & Imagination
Judith. A story written 2100 years ago, set in the time of the Maccabean revolt… General Holofernes and his army…
Business Ethics Don'ts
How not to be ethical in business: cause a problem, and then require people to pay you to solve it. This week,…
Economic Enslavement
When the famine becomes severe in Egypt, Joseph allows the Egyptians to buy back the grain they were required to…
Dark Days
The darkest hour is just before the dawn. So they say. On Friday morning, my cat wakes me just before…
Let a Wise One Guide
Pharaoh dreams. Seven emaciated cows eat seven healthy ones. Then, seven lean ears of corn eating seven plump ones. Joseph…
Keep the Han in Hanukkah
WARNING: LIGHT HUMOUR TO FOLLOW Sung to the tune of American Pie Long long time ago, in a galaxy far…
Where are you?
Ideas by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Words by me. You, along with every human being, are engaged in a lifelong search.…