by Getzy Markowitz - Jewish Thought in Simple Words The distinction of language gets lost in translation. In rendering the biblical holy tongue, much of the original script loses its unique expression. The spring reenactment of liberation called Pesach is turned into Passover. Shavuot, the day on wh...

Why am I still blogging? Zev Jabotinsky to the Jews of Warsaw on Tisha b'Av in 1938: "For three years I have been imploring you, Jews of Poland, the crown of world Jewry, appealing to you, warning you unceasingly that the catastrophe is nigh. My hair has turned white and I have grown old over these ...

For most of us nowadays it's hard to imagine changing around your life because of a mission that you feel, because of a drive to accomplish a specific job that you think is uniquely yours. We tend to go about our lives, doing what's right and doing what's right for us to do. But a life's mission? Th...

What famous historical murder case still fascinates you? For this one I'm going to say Charles Manson even though that's an obvious choice. Mostly because Charles Manson was the vanguard in cult leaders that would become synonymous with the 1970s (the smartass evaluation would be that Baby Boomers h...

What famous historical murder case still fascinates you? For this one I'm going to say Charles Manson even though that's an obvious choice. Mostly because Charles Manson was the vanguard in cult leaders that would become synonymous with the 1970s (the smartass evaluation would be that Baby Boomers h...

My family went to Israel during the summer of 2005. We flew home from Israel three days before the disengagement from Gaza began. During our two-week trip we asked Israelis how they felt about the upcoming giveback of the Gaza Strip.  There was one person whose words still haunt me. This old man wa...

There are some very creepy coincidences about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. For Example, in Jewish tradition, Tisha B'av (9th day of the Hebrew Month Av) is the anniversary of the day the spies that Moshe sent to Cannan came back and delivered their bad r...

My family went to Israel during the summer of 2005. We flew home from Israel three days before the disengagement from Gaza began. During our two-week trip we asked Israelis how the felt about the upcoming give back of Gaza Strip. There was one person whose words still haunt me. This old man was sitt...

A magical year? This is a new year and it ends in the number nine. To some, such as the Chinese, nine is a number with magical properties. Cloud Nine The ancient Chinese considered numbers a mystical part of the universe. As an odd number, the number "9" belongs to the "yang" category, which represe...

Half a year ago, Rabbi Lazer Brody was referring to Barack Obama by the code name, Mister V. .... Mister V is a great code-name for Bara(c)k Hussein Obama for two "V" reasons: First, according to the way we're reading the spiritual map, BHO will be victorious in the upcoming Presidential election. T...