“Wow. To bump into you now after all these years, just when I was thinking of you!” “Meanwhile, quite independently, another scientist had just discovered the same thing, half way around the world.” “And after all that, where did the manure happen to land when Haman’s daughter dumped it out the window? On her father’s head [Read More ...]

The Jewish people are like a challa. That braided loaf of egg bread is not simply a static object waiting to be consumed. It’s a symbolic and dynamic work of art that you really need to chew on in order to digest. I’d like to focus on the braids – out, in, crossover, out the [Read More ...]

Classic concepts of time are flying out the window as scientists report on effects that precede the causes that made them. What does this all mean for us? Have you ever walked into a test situation wishing that you had studied some more? There may be a solution. New research suggests that you might be [Read More ...]

Mohan Srivistava’s daughter is only eight years old but she already knows how to pick winning lottery tickets up to 90 per cent of the time. She’s not a prophetess nor is she a genius – it’s a trick she was taught by her statistician father who looks for hidden patterns among apparently random numbers [Read More ...]

Albert Einstein was a clever man. After all, what other type of a fellow could come up with something so bizarre as e=mc2? This elegant synopsis of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity means that every material object is nothing more than a bundle of energy, in fact an immensely huge amount of energy. If you [Read More ...]

The Rebbe taught us how the emergence of science is a sign of geulah unfolding and that is we open our eyes properly, we will see that it is already here. Here is an eye-opening resource developed by a Swedish statistician to help us do precisely that. The Lubavitcher Rebbe is well-known to be, among [Read More ...]

This week I celebrate 30 years since my first encounter with Chabad and my introduction to authentic Judaism. To mark the occasion, here is a new and improved version of a personal story I previously published, for the benefit of those who may have forgotten it or missed it the first time around. The yartzeit [Read More ...]

The school bus was parked at the side of the road, engine idling. The driver was idling too, perusing his morning paper over coffee and donut, comfortably perched atop one of those large, green utility boxes that punctuate each block in my quiet suburban neighbourhood.   The scene was familiar to me, since his morning [Read More ...]

The question has been asked for over four hundred years – Would a Rose by any other name not smell as sweet? And the answer has always been the same, until recently that is.   Scientists have noticed that society's bourgeoning obsession with individuality is spilling over into how we name our kids. Take for example [Read More ...]

Life was simpler back then. Peace. Love. Joy. Health. Prosperity. All the things we hope for down the road, we already had then, back in the garden. At that point, however, the two-legged snake came to visit. No, not the door-to-door home renovation salesman, although their ilk also includes slicksters who entice vulnerable populations to [Read More ...]