Rabbi Sender Haber

Rabbi, Monsey, NY

Israeli Coffee

I was sitting in Little Israel the other day when we were invaded by the United States military. A huge Navy guy – clearly not Jewish – stormed in and made a direct assault on the South-Eastern sector of the store. He extracted five large tins of Elite...

The Cry of the Shofar

The Talmud tells us that the pattern of shofar blowing in each congregation evolved over time. The long, trumpet-like tekiah was used by all, but the teruah took on many different forms, varying with time and geographic location. Amazingly, after several generations...

Elul Smackdown

I got a letter from a Yeshiva. They don’t feel that their dinner is worthwhile so they are just sending out nice letters asking everyone to match last years donation. The assumption is that nobody is really interested in Dinner anyway. In contrast, two guys in...