A Tea Party in the American Wonderland

  MEMORIES A BEVERAGE MAY BRING   Would you care for a cup of tea? For some of us, this is not a highly politicized question. For Pa, Bubbe, and the rest of my Eastern European ancestors, the complexities undergirding that question are proof that the infamous Boston Tea Party was waged by Lithuanian Jews, [...]

Think you’ve got problems?

 IMAGINE HAVING EIGHT   So the Octomom filed for bankruptcy and owes a ton of money. Here I am with three kids, and I wonder how my life would have been different if they’d never come into my life.   One of the age-old questions asks, “how many kids is too many?”   It certainly [...]

Men in Black (1997)

  DIRECTED BY BARRY SONNENFELD     It took me 12 years to get my doctorate in English at Georgia State University. Usually, it’s a five-year gig including the dissertation.   For me, it took longer because I was married with kids, had a full-time job and could not devote all my time to this [...]

Q& A with Matt Brooks

Q& A with Matt Brooks RJC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWED   By Chuck Berk For The Atlanta Jewish Times   Matthew Brooks, executive director of the 35,000-member Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), spoke to the national organization’s Atlanta chapter on the evening of May 7 at Fulton County GOP headquarters in Sandy Springs. Brooks, who also serves [...]

CREATING A GOOD VISION STATEMENT

        A Vision Shouldn’t Be A Mirage If you want to grow your business, a vision is critical.   A vision is defined as “an image of the future we seek to create;” in other words, who and what we want to be.   Individuals can be so motivated by a compelling [...]

How Would Bishop Tutu React to these Opportunities?

How would Bishop Desmond Tutu react if he had been given land for a state in 1948? And how would the Bishop react to an offer in 1967 to return all of the land captured during the Six-Day War in return for peace?   How would he react to offers from Ehud Barak and Ehud [...]

Obama’s not walking the walk

  Dear Editor:   Friend of the Israel? I don’t think so! Why would our President, who claims to be a friend of Israel, continue to make decisions against Israel’s best interests? The latest was this past week, when he waived restrictions on funding the Palestinian Authority, declaring the aid to be “important to the [...]

Time for a Financial Checkup?

Volatile financial markets are still leaving individual investors queasy about their portfolios. They’re not suffering from vertigo; the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Volatility Index, which measures expected volatility in the S&P 500, spent August and September 2011 hovering at its highest levels in a year.   That degree of instability can do more than make [...]