Parshas Vayelech
Rabbi Berel Wein The parsha of Vayelech is the parsha that contains the smallest number of verses – only thirty – of any other parsha in the Torah. It also is the parsha that usually coincides with Shabbat Shuva, the holy Shabbat between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The words of the parsha are part […]
The Accidental Aveirah
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Unfortunately, there was recently a restaurant that was found to be serving treif under the guise of kosher. Rav Moshe, zt”l, ruled that if an individual had a halachic basis to believe a restaurant was kosher and it turned out it wasn’t, then it is considered an aveira b’oines. There were two […]
Billionaires Behaving…Benevolently?
Allan Rolnick, CPA On September 29, 1916, John D. Rockefeller became America’s first billionaire. (That was a day after crude oil prices jumped by 10 cents/barrel and Standard Oil of New Jersey stock hit $2,014/share.) Now we have almost a thousand of the Gucci-clad fat cats buying Senate seats and monopolizing prime properties in Nantucket […]