Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher
Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher, Dean of Students and Senior Lecturer at Diaspora Yeshiva, is not only a popular speaker and teacher, but also a dynamic thinker and writer. A student of Harav Yaakov Kamenetsky and Harav Gedalia Schorr, Rabbi Sprecher was granted smicha (rabbinical ordination) by Torah Vodaath Yeshiva. Prior to his current position, Rabbi Sprecher […]
Richard Chaim Van Sickle
My name is Richard Van Sickle. I am 45 and currently I can’t see due to having cancer when I was 7. Having seen I still can relate to people about colors. After receiving 52 radiation treatments and a year and a half of chemotherapy I am now in remission. I had to relearn […]
The Music Never Stopped
I say the Music Never Stopped!! Thank you Jerry for all you gave Excerpted from “So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead” Three songs into the show, the house lights still on, the time had come for “Dire Wolf,” but with a perverse twist no one had anticipated. Twenty-five […]
Vocal Renditions by Iris Ziff Pirchesky
Iris Pirchesky, mother and respected counsel of the founder of One World Blue, Joel Pirchesky, has been an advocate and teacher of the special needs for over 25 years working with art therapy and counseling. Iris has a degree in psychology and art therapy and completed an internship at the Western Pennsylvania school for the […]
A Tribute to Sholom Epstein
Sholom Epstein is trying to hasten the Ultimate Redemption, in an attempt to make this World a better place to live in – Now… Praise G-d; Amen. SEE THE NEW LIGHT By Reb Sholom Stan Epstein A little light eliminates a great deal of darkness. The new light that will be prevalent in the world […]
Isaiah Bird
Two seconds. That’s all it took for Miguel Rodriguez, Long Beach Gladiators wrestling coach and a teaching assistant in the Long Beach Schools to know he had to work with Isaiah Bird. “My boss asked me to meet with a new kid to the school, a child without legs,” Rodriguez said. “As soon as I […]
The Tao of Pooh
The Tao of Pooh Pooh bear holding onto a Tao kite Winnie the Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things which has made him the world’s most beloved bear. And Pooh’s Way, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient Chinese principles of Taoism. The ‘Tao of […]
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
One doesn’t need to become a peaceful warrior. By virtue of living here, on planet Earth, each and every one of us is a peaceful warrior in training — to the degree that we strive to live with a more peaceful heart… but also recognize that there are times we need to live with a […]
Kretchnif Rebbe
Thank you HaRav Rosenbaum for your Blessing years ago and the Chizuk you have given me and our family and our business. We are honored for your tefillos over so many years and your guidance and support. You are truly a very compassionate person who I have always been very uplifted to speak with and […]
Blake Leeper
