Dear Rebbetzin Weinberg,
I’m writing to you with a situation/question that I think affects other young couples: When do we tell our respective parents that I am pregnant?
My own mother cannot keep a secret.
December 2006
Although Thanksgiving has come and gone, I thought why couldn’t we have a turkey dinner during Chanukah? Of course, it would be a feast that included some of the traditional Chanukah specialties. So here goes a Chanukah/Thanksgiving spread fit for a Maccabee!
Pickles: In 1974, when I came to learn in the Kerem B’Yavne Yeshiva, when you went to buy a pickle from a pickle salesman, he would stick his arm into the pickle jar, removing the pickle with his hand, thereby submerging his hairy arm in the brine up to the wrist. Nowadays, pickle salesmen use a fork.
Yellowstone National Park is a place of unparalleled beauty located in northwest Wyoming. It is therefore somewhat surprising that few frum Jews have been there. I assume these small numbers are a reflection of our collective ignorance about the park.
Back in the 1950s, when Uncle Joe and Aunt Rose decided to visit Israel for the first time, a trip like that was sufficiently rare that the local paper, The Montgomery Advertiser, did an article about it. I recall the story behind the headline.
There’s an old expression that goes something like this: Walk into a tannery and you’ll come out smelling like an animal, walk into a perfume factory, and you’ll come out smelling like perfume. Each of us is subject to the influences that surrounded us as children, as well as those with which we surround ourselves later in life.
To the Editor,
As a federal student aid officer and Title IV compliance consultant, I read the most recent article that the CPA Eli Pollock wrote with great interest. I think he did a very good job of explaining the importance of completing the FAFSA and how to go about doing so. However, he neglected to mention two new, critical points. He says that if you own a business, you have to enter the value of the business.
One of the ongoing questions we ask ourselves when facing political issues is, “Is it good for the Jews?” The question might apply not only to the results of the recent elections that saw Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress but to the two major political parties as well.
The Where What When received several phone calls in recent months asking why “The Shadchan in You” did not appear in the last few issues of the magazine. We’re glad you noticed and are pleased to bring the feature back.
Cell phones have been around for 31 years. I’ve had one for 29 years. Way back then, the cost of a cell phone installed in your car was $1,500. You could purchase a bulky “bag phone” for $1,200. The cost of service for 40 per month peak minutes and 40 off-peak minutes was $55 per month. There was no free long distance and no free mobile-to-mobile. When you traveled past the Tydings Bridge in Perryville you paid roaming charges of 59 cents a minute. Nighttime minutes began at 2:00 p.m.