A few years ago, I met with a group of teenagers who had stayed in Boca for the summer. This was a different Boca than the one we know today, with fewer programs, fewer constructive outlets, and far more empty hours. The boys had spent their summer doing things they shouldn’t have done. Their parents were concerned and wanted us to speak with them, not to punish, but to understand. So we asked them a simple question: Why? Their answer was disarming in its honesty. “Rabbi,

One of the most inspirational and impactful stories I have read is in a short, easy-to-read book called “The Fred Factor,” by Mark Sanborn. Fred is the ordinary-looking postal carrier with a small moustache who once delivered mail to Sanborn’s house in the Washington Park area of Denver. But Fred is no ordinary U.S. Postal Service worker. According to Sanborn, he is the kind of worker who exemplifies everything that is “right” with customer service and is a role model for an

Televised sports these days have a new kind of scoreboard, one that doesn’t just tell you the score, but tells you the chances of success....

When my wife Arielle and I were first married, she was working as a nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. One of the things she...

Before Rabbi Shlomo Riskin was the Chief Rabbi of Efrat and before he founded the Lincoln Square Synagogue, he was a Talmud teacher at...

A few years ago, when I had the privilege of addressing a group of teenagers in our community, I began by asking them to write down...

During one of the most difficult chapters of our lives, when our daughter Esti a”h was undergoing treatment at St. Jude Children’s...