by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 5, 2014
During World War II my grandfather used to trade cigarettes with the German and Japanese Prisoners of War on his ship. He would give them cigarettes and they would give him whatever they had. He showed me some of the Nazi memorabilia that he acquired. We both agreed...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 4, 2012
It was that time of year again. College basketball was in full swing and my normally attentive students were filling out brackets under their desks. Exhibiting an age-appropriate lack of proportion, it was clear that there was nothing more important to these boys than...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 27, 2012
“Oh, how I love Your Torah. I speak of it all day”. “Mah Ahavti Sorasecha. Kol Hayom Hi Sichasi”. (Psalms 119) When King David said those words, he wasn’t referring to a class that he had taught, a psalm he had written, or a ruling that he had given. King David was...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 23, 2011
We will never know who was Rav Mordechai Feinstein was. Rav Moshe Feinstein was a well-known tzaddik and one of the foremost Halachic authorities of his generation. He wrote thousands of brilliant Teshuvos (responsa) and published seven volumes of Igros Moshe during...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 16, 2011
A number of years ago, my car hit high water. I called for help and AAA sent me a mechanic with North Carolinean plates. He had only two or three teeth, which he used endearingly to chew and spit real tobacco as he spoke. The Mechanic explained to me that he had...
