Why You Should Run Your Own Business
My First Business – Selling Gum and Candy on the Bus Inc. Magazine spurred me to write an article I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I’m sure there are also books on...
Author: tostien
Hunter, NY – Kosher Bed and Breakfast, Catskills, Mountain
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....
Children? Marriage? Why? A Positive Recitation
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’?...
Camping – North/South Lake, Catskills & Spruce Run, New Jersey
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,...
Bradley Beach, NJ – Kosher Vacation
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...
Why Don’t Bad Things Happen to Bad People?
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...
Hitler, The Missing Years – Ernest Hanfstaengl – Book Review
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...
Newport, Rhode Island – Kosher Vacation
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...
Who will Die? Forced Ethical Dilemmas in Jewish Law
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...
Free Will to Believe in G_d – Atheists Revenge
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...