Human Interest
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Two of the most powerful things you can do for your children have nothing to do with them directly. They require you to invest in yourself and in your marriage. First: Take Care of Yourself The Torah "love your neighbor as yourself." Self-love isn't selfishness; it's the prerequisite for giving anything real to anyone else. […]
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The year was 1921. A catastrophic drought has hit one of the world’s richest grain producing regions, the Volga River basin. In a dramatic attempt to save lives, the American Relief Administration shipped millions of tons of grain to Russian ports. But that grain never made it to the starving interior. Broken down railroads couldn’t […]
Decades ago, my father, Rabbi Dovid Schochet, was asked to lecture to a group of Jewish and non-Jewish participants in Buffalo. He decided to focus his lecture on the theme of charity, due to its universal application to both Jews and gentiles. My father began with the following story. A wealthy individual who never contributed […]
In 1965, Homer and Melva lived next door to us on Hampton Boulevard, in the naval town of Norfolk. Homer and Dad went way back. They’d been in the same fraternity at William & Mary, played college pranks together, and were as close as two men could be. I don’t know if it was a […]
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Do some people become religious to escape life rather than face it? And what would you do if your child told you they no longer believed in God?
