I have a car that is for my driving teenagers.  The only driver, though, lives in Israel now, so the car hasn’t been driven for a while.  It needed an inspection, but it appears that a car needs to be driven a minimum amount of miles, and so my car failed inspection.  What to…

  I was at Riki Fishbein’s shiur this week, BH I made it.  As an aside, HKBH blessed me with an amazing block.  Pirkei Avoth on Shabbos with Rebbetzin Chanie Wolowik, parshah on Wednesdays at Rebbetzin Riki Fishbein, and Estelle, Tzippy, Matana, Leba, Rochel, Lisa, Ilana, Fran, Melody, Ilana, Rivkie and Mindy are role models…

  The Five Towns community is up in arms  over the sale of the 55 acre Woodmere Club to private investors.  In a community created in the 1700s with guests as rich as George Washington and the revolutionaries, we are caught ill prepared for further development, but let me start at the beginning.   BACKGROUND…

  I received from NYS Department of Motor Vehicles my driver’s license renewal.  It gave me the option of getting an enhanced driver’s license, which would permit me to travel by land and sea to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean without my  passport, for an extra $30.  Sure, I thought, why not. The renewal came…

  This parshah very clearly establishes that there are three parents that a Jew has, and G-d is very much one of them. The parshah discusses the purity of a simple kohen/priest, the kohen gadol/high priest and a nazir/a man who has taken on some purity stringencies.  If a simple Kohen’s immediate family dies, he…

  In the New York Times last week, there was an article about first lady, Melania Trump, and how she has broken the traditional first lady role.  The reporter opined that there was a basic failure of consent between Melania and the President about her role in his Presidential foray.  She has not towed the…

A GLASS SHATTERS UNDER OUR CHUPPAH By:  Suri Davis   A bride encircles her groom under the chupah seven times, to break through the seven clouds that stand between our Earth and the kisei hakavod/G-d’s throne.  They are fasting.  They are as babies, free from prior sin.  They dedicate themselves to each other and to…

BLACK AND WHITE PASSOVER NIGHT By: Suri Davis   In 1978 a joint session of Congress decided that each year on the anniversary of the birth of the Lubavitcher Rebbe there will be Education and Sharing Day.  Today is the Rebbe’s birthday.  Today we lost a vital person in American History, Linda Brown.  There are…

ZAYIN ADAR, MOSHE, ESTHER, PARSHAT ZACHOR AND POLAND By: Suri Davis Zayin Adar is most famously known for being the birth and yahrtzeit/death anniversary of Moshe/Moses.  It is also the yahrtzeit of Queen Esther, whom we read about next week on Purim in the Book of Esther. There are no coincidences in life, so there…

  I was expecting guests/friends from out of town for Shabbos yesterday.  I felt bad that I had to teach at the time they would arrive, so I set the task to my children to greet them and show them to their room. I returned at 9pm, and greeted them and by 10pm it was…