Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called “Putin on the Precipice.”Even though Yom Kippur has passed, as Jews, we always believe that there is time to walk back from the precipice. Thus, with the risk of “nuclear Armageddon” now the highest in sixty years since the Cuban Missile Crisis, there is no time for Putin to waste in ending this needless war in Ukraine and the proxy war with the West.
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Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called “The Hypocrisy of False Repentance.”
We firmly believe that there is true Divine justice by the Almighty (even if not always by our court system), and that if we don’t do good and work at perfecting our deficiencies as is our purpose in Olam Hazeh (this world), then we will suffer the consequences in the World to Come.
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Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called “Finding Truth in a Topsy-Turvy World.”
In terms of seeing the world and life clearly, you have a choice of how to live. You can choose to endlessly chase meaningless material things and the next physical high, or you can live your life with a deeper understanding that this world is just a corridor to the future world, where the “breath of life” from G-d returns to Him for everlasting revelation and reckoning.
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Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called A Soul-Stirring Holocaust Memorial.
As we recently completed the Jewish high holidays between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a time of Judgment, and we ask G-d to forgive us, so we are told that we are asked to forgive others. However, can we ever really forgive the magnitude and cruelty of this genocidal crime to the Jewish people? I don’t think that is really humanly possible to forgive the premeditated and scientifically executed, brutal murder of a third of all Jews in the entire world. However, I do thank the artist, Wolfgang Stiller for his sentiments with the Magen David to remember and never forget the Holocaust, and most importantly, to never let it happen again! Finally, my hope is that this artwork memorializing the Holocaust finds a suitable home in perhaps Yad Vashem or other major Holocaust museum or exhibition where people can broadly experience and benefit from the important sentiments conveyed.
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So I was talking with a friend and he was pretty frustrated with the state of medical care these days.
He mentioned that no doctor wants to take responsibility for the patient anymore.
Maybe that’s why they punt to other doctors and have big medical malpractice insurance.
But he said something really interesting…
“You wind up going on doctor merry-go-round until you [actually] find someone willing to help…”
One doctor sends you to another doctor and this one sends you to that specialist and it goes on and on.
Sometimes they just can’t figure out what’s wrong.
Usually comes across as trial-and-error or a process of elimination.
But then if they don’t want to deal with you or don’t know what’s wrong or how to treat they pass you off to the next doctor and so on, and so on.
I suppose to a certain extent it makes sense because medicine like many technical fields is very specialized now-a-days.
But how much is it the specialization stuff and how much is it that they just don’t want to deal with the hard stuff or don’t want the liability.
Dr. Merry-Go-Round takes you on a very nauseous ride and makes it tough sometimes to get the care you need. 😉
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What’s it like to feel shame?
In this life, it’s having your head ripped around your body.
Then in the next life, it’s got to be a soul bared and stretched across the heavens and for all eternity.
Punishment is revelation and the mark it undoubtedly leaves behind.
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Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, “Justice for Sarah Halimi.”
The case of the Sarah Halimi is yet another example of the anti-Semitism taking deep root in France, where rather than ensuring Justice for her barbaric murder, a second French court has now absurdly affirmed a lower-court ruling that the alleged perpetrator Traore cannot be held criminally responsible simply because he was on marijuana! Incredibly, these French justices ruled in this completely nonsensical way even as cannabis is being ruled legal for medicinal and even recreational purposes in more and more countries around the world.
It is inconceivable that a modern, western nation as France (part of the EU, NATO, the UN, etc.) would allow violent, racist, hate-mongers, and murders completely off the hook simply because they were high on some cannabis or for any other lame excuse like that. This is not rational. It is not human or civilized. And it is certainly not justice. Jewish blood is not cheap and Kolibi Traore cannot be allowed to go free. France needs to make this right because Sarah Halimi, a citizen of France, was butchered there because she was a Jew, and letting radical Islamists commit violence and terror like this is a danger not just to the French, but to everybody.
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These days someone is always watching.
Whether someone is peering at you from upstairs or around the corner.
Or there is a surveillance camera.
Or someone is recording you on their smartphone.
You are never really alone.
And even IF, and that’s a big if, that no one person is watching.
Remember that G-d above still sees everything! 😉
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