Category: Lectures

Who is Counting? Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS     So, there’s this diet, 30 in 30.   Supposedly it means, you lose 30 lbs. in thirty days, which does not sound that easy to believe. Except, I just did it. That’s right friends, I bet some of you out there did it too.…

BOOK REVIEW: FLOWERS IN THE DESERT Author:  Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Review by:  Suri Davis   I placed a new coffe table book in my home right before the holidays, and figured in between my preparing meals, I would sit with it and read it.  I had to fight for the book.  It turned out to…

A BISSEL TORAH: BEREISHIT ALL OVER AGAIN By: Suri Davis   Aspirations. When each of the 12 tribes were born, they were named as follows: Reuben “because G-d saw my affliction, for now my husband will love me; Simon “because G-d has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this one also; Levi:…

ROSH HASHANAH: LET’S MAKE A DEAL Suri Davis   Many years ago, a friend told me something that I keep in my back pocket:  “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides, i.e., we put our best foot forward when we leave our homes, and we look at others and imagine that they have a…

Ki Tavo: Wedding, Wedding and a Triple By: Suri Davis   I was zocheh to attend three weddings this week of dear friends.  Yehudah Furst, son of Tzippy and Elie Furst in Baltimore, MD.  Tess Barbanel to Yosef Meir Rubel, children of Lewis and Lauri Barbanel and Shuly and Alan Rubel.  And IYH tonight, the…

Can You Beat the System? Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS     It never fails.   You have a really big day tomorrow, and sleep alludes you!   You stay in bed turning and twisting but sleep just looms somewhere in the distance.   And if that’s not challenging enough, once you do fall…

TWIN ENEMIES AND THE TROPHY By: Suri Davis   I am not a social worker or psychologist, I am a mother.  I want to share with you an experience that happened several years ago with one of my children, which is relevant to back to school parenting. Twin enemies are fear and anxiety.  The unknown. …

The Non-Verbal Autistic Boy who Can’t Wait for Shabbat by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff Rojeh’s desire for spiritual connection should be an inspiration for us all. Rojeh, 11, is autistic and non-verbal. It is very difficult for him to express himself. His mother, Yael, studies with me. She attends every class, sits in the front row and her…