by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 15, 2010
Students are dependable vigilantes. College kids are always ready to stand up for a cause, stage a protest, and resist culture as we know it. Some student movements have been great; others have been terribly misinformed. All of them have been passionate. Eventually,...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 22, 2009
This will be my third consecutive post about death. Unfortunately, death can come when you least expect it and to the most unlikely people. Almost ten years ago I was invited to write an article for a journal (Simchas Binyamin) in Lakewood. Reb Dovid Frost sat a few...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 20, 2009
Michael was on a mission. He was seeking the man deserving of the term, epithet, description, designation, characterization and appellation of The Simple Jew. He could conjure up an image of The Macher, The Askan and The Charismatic Leader, but he had yet to put his...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 15, 2009
I’ve often wondered whether swans actually sing a beautiful song just before they die. As the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig left this world, he tried to leave a lasting message for his wife. As he breathed his final breaths he wrote her the following sentence: “And now...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Nov 12, 2009
The only person in the area who was willing to take apart my hard drive works out of a basement in Portsmouth. He turned out to be a really nice Lebanese fellow who was just dying to spend five hours on my computers, adding hardware, running software, and charging me...
