Rabbi’s Blog

Dear Friends,  The widespread custom on both nights of Rosh Hashanah is to eat various kinds of foods as a symbolic good omen for the new year. Of all the […]

Dear Friends, COVID-19 has caused all sorts of shortages and surpluses in various industries, some of which make for fascinating stories. One such shortage was lab monkeys. There are certain […]

Dear Friends, In an interesting article, Alan Castel, Ph.D. professor of psychology at the University of California, writes that despite having an amazingly complex brain, we spend much of our […]

Dear Friends,  In this week’s Parsha, the Torah admonishes the judge not to show favouritism, not to corrupt justice, and not to take bribes “for bribes will blind the eyes […]

Dear Friends, Around twenty years ago, Peter Skillman conducted a test referred to as “the Spaghetti Problem.” He brought together various groups worldwide, from Taiwanese telecom engineers to American MBA […]

Dear Friends, Health is always a relevant topic, but it has been the overarching topic on the minds of practically all of humanity due to the pandemic. Besides the survival […]