Author - Rabbi Yonah

After seeing a website that claimed to be the “World’s most popular Jewish website” I figured I better do some research and see. Why do I care? I guess I secretly hoped that we were number...

A year ago it was a collection of straw huts, hastily thrown together in the aftermath of battle, hard by the razor-wire edge of a small African Union peacekeeper base. Today it is a tangle of sewage...

Oyhoo Music Award Nominee, Rav Shmuel for Best Singer Songwriter 2006 If you want to do something positive today (among the many other positive things that you may do, like have a nice brunch or...

Thirty days before Rosh Hashanah, the sound of the shofar can be heard. It’s the world’s most ancient alarm clock. “Get off your tush, take an accounting of life, dude.” And I start...