613 Seconds with Ilana Pleeter, Program Coordinator, Living Smarter Jewish
BJH: What is your name and how did you get involved with LSJ? Ilana Pleeter: My name is Ilana Pleeter, and I’m from Baltimore. My sister-in-law thought this would be a great role for me and encouraged me to apply. Over time, I developed a real passion for helping people in the frum community and […]
Golfing Around
Allan Rolnick, CPA Hank Aaron once said, “It tookme seventeen years to get3,000 hits in baseball. It tookme one afternoon on the golf course.”Remarkably, millions of Americans stillmanage to love it. They’ll pick out theirloudest pants or skirts, head for thecourse, fire up their carts, and whack alittle white ball across a couple hundredacres of […]
Magic Eight Ball Says . . .
Allan Rolnick, CPA Artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the global economy, promising increased efficiency and productivity at the same time as it threatens millions of jobs. Of course, someday AI might decide it’s smarter than the species that created it (not a high bar) and use it to wipe out human life. (But who cares […]
What Happens in Vegas…
Allan Rolnick, CPA Last Sunday’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas was a spectacle for the ages. MVP Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs affirmed their dominance in the NFL, coming from behind to win in overtime. It was their second straight Lombardi trophy and their third in five years. About 1,000 celebrities clogged nearby […]
Open Secrets
Allan Rolnick, CPA Last fall, a former IRS contractor named Charles Littlejohn copped a plea to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax return information. Specifically, Littlejohn leaked Donald Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in an explicit attempt to sway the 2020 election. Last week, US District Court Ana Reyes sentenced him […]
Coffee Talk
Allan Rolnick, CPA America has always been a land of opportunity, but most Americans don’t seem very good at managing those opportunities. The average American has just $87,000 saved for retirement, dimming hopes for endless days of pickleball in the sun. Nearly 4 in 10 can’t cover $400 in an emergency, which explains a landscape […]
Mack the Knife
Allan Rolnick, CPA Five thousand years ago, give or take, the Mesopotamians invented the shekel. It was the world’s first currency and represented a huge step forward from primitive barter, the direct trade of goods and services. Since then, ingenious humans have used all sorts of objects to store and exchange value, including beaver skins, […]
Elon Musk – Love Him or Hate Him
Allan Rolnick, CPA Love him or hate him, everyone’s favorite richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, keeps racking up the headlines. Is he a twenty-first-century Edison or Ford, hurtling towards the first trillion-dollar fortune? Will he change the world with his genius for cars, batteries, rockets, and satellites? Or is he a cranky, drug-addled […]
Too Many Men on the Field?
Allan Rolnick, CPA This weekend marks the kickoff of the NFL playoffs, and questions abound. Does Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson have what it takes to go all the way? Can San Francisco’s Brock Purdy finally silence the doubters? Will Kansas City’s Travis Kelce be too distracted to focus on the field? Stay tuned for all the […]
“Shotime”
Allan Rolnick, CPA If you’re a football fan, you’ve just come off a weekend-long binge full of college and NFL games. If you’re a basketball fan, March Madness is just around the corner. If you’re a hockey fan…well, does anyone but another hockey diehard know what’s going on in your head right now? So you […]