I don’t have very many close friends. I know a lot of people, I talk to tons of people a week, but there aren’t very many I would consider close friends. At one time I believed that friendships were essential to emotional and spiritual health, but the older I get, the more I realize that friendships are transient. We make friends at work, colleagues...

A friend and I were recently discussing life and missed or squandered opportunities. We all have them, those times where opportunity knocks and nobody is home.   We live in a time of entitlement, where even children feel that things are owed to them. Why wouldn’t they? Most children in North America today are lucky enough not to be hungry, to have...

I’m sorry. This combination of words seem to be the hardest to say and even harder sometimes to hear. Admitting guilt and repenting for it is an amazingly powerful tool to alleviate the stresses of life. Let’s face it, nobody is perfect and with our imperfections comes the possibility of hurting someone you know and love. As humans we are...

It seems like a non-statement, kids will experiment with drugs, some will get hooked, while others will keep their wits about them and walk away. Which does what depends on a lot of factors, including the moral values of their parents and the values followed at home.Last night, on my radio show, I revealed the results of an informal survey I conducted amongst 18...

Recently, a young member of our Jewish community confided in me that they felt that their sexual orientation wasn’t straight. The person, who I will not identify in this piece, not even by gender, expressed that they felt that if anyone in the Jewish community found out about their sexual leanings, they would be ostracized from the community and their life...