Monthly Archives: December 2011

What Are We Doing To Our Kids?

In an interview with Robert Rickover (son of the founder of the nuclear navy), author Richard Brennan says: “I heard this radio program. A headmaster says that when our kids come into school at the age of five, they have … Continue reading

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Growing Old With Grace

Lifelong habits become more pronounced the older we are. I notice that many people I know in their 30s are already old. They’re stiff. They move awkwardly. They fall down too much. They’re locked into certain habits of thinking and … Continue reading

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Guys With Yarmulkes Dancing With Girls

I’m at the JConnectLA party tonight. About a quarter of the crowd is nominally Orthodox. Many of them dance with the opposite sex. Many of them are my friends. I watch them swaying with their yarmulkes and I notice that … Continue reading

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Change Your Posture, Change Your Life

I interviewed Alexander teacher and author Richard Brennan today. (His Robert Rickover interviews on posture..) Richard: “I wanted to be a doctor first, then a teacher.” “I couldn’t do the chemistry to become a doctor. I took a few years … Continue reading

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The Rav Forbade Congregational Singing

In his part two lecture on Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer for Torah in Motion, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: “Congregational singing wasn’t even done in Germany. It was choir singing. It’s an American thing. It might be a development of the … Continue reading

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