Buffets in general are just sleazy. Think about it: you’re eating piles and piles of cheap food while kids with sticky hands run around screaming and people with less than ideal hygiene sneeze, cough and manhandle the salad bar. That’s assuming you live in an industrialized nation where such a thing as a buffet could [...]
This week’s haftorah chronicles the birth of Samson to the childless Manoah and his wife of Tribe Dan. A visiting angel informs the mother-to-be that her son is to be a lifetime Nazirite, and as such, forbade her from taking part in food or wine [...]
In most Orthodox communities, married women cover their hair. That can be accomplished my wrapping your hair in a tichel, a Jewish version of the hijab, or wearing a wig. This week’s Torah portion, Naso, gives the reason why. As Rabbi Wikipedia says: “According to the Torah, the priest uncovers or unbraids the accused woman’s [...]
I have a confession to make: I have math dyslexia. It’s never been diagnosed formally, but I have always had a sense of it. Sometimes, when I read math problems, the numbers mix up in my head. A clock that says 7:30PM looks like 3:70PM. Although I am the Executive Director of PunkTorah, I don’t [...]
Harvard http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-makes-us-happy-2013-4 spent seventy five years to find out what makes a happy life. It’s one of the longest-running studies on human development, and recently, George Vaillant, who directed the study for over thirty of the seventy five years, published Triumphs of Experience, a summary of everything researchers learned in the study. Some of [...]
