Torah Observant Jew + Patent Attorney
Update 2021: Happy Harry’s seems to have closed. 🙁 You might also be interested in the hiking trails at North/South Lake, not far from here, and the review of stuff to do in the Catskills....
Why We Should Marry and Why Marriage is Only for Man and Woman Together What’s the purpose of life? To live longest? Propagate our ideas longest? To live until we die and then ‘whatever’?...
Why Camping? Travelling is too expensive? Not worth the hassle of finding kosher food? These is a relatively inexpensive way to do it – rent a plot of dirt, put a tent on it,...
Guest Post by Susan Rosenbluth of The Jewish Voice and Opinion, Englewood, NJ, susan@jewishvoiceandopinion.com PatentlyJewish Note: I have not visited the minyanim myself, but based on past visits in my pre-religious days and other accounts, it is not a...
Introduction Really, the title should be “Why don’t Bad Things Always Happen to Bad People?” I thought would try to tackle this subject based on some sources in Judaism. Now, we can answer this...
The Holocaust in Context The Jewish calendar, a microcosm of Judaism itself, has a complete cycle of everything from joyous times (Purim, Succos) to sad times (Tish B’Av) to everything else. This article is...
Background Newport, Rhode Island is a beautiful city, dating back to before the colonies. It was the site of one of the earliest Jewish communities in the Americas with a continued presence until the...
Forced Ethical Dilemma (Updated Trolley Car Problem) Imagine this scenario: You buy a self driving car, say, like Google’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car) and your driving along at 65mph. The brakes fail. The sensors tell the car...
After asking to a group of atheists, “Assuming with live in a world with free will, what amount of evidence would be enough for you to believe in G_d?” one of them decided to...
The Question To Atheists Atheists fascinate me. In my most secular days, I was an agnostic because even if you are right that there is no Creator, you can’t know that. I recently found...