by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 8, 2023 | Judges
A wounded veteran of the US Army who fought in World War II, my grandfather, Julius Mischel, was overjoyed to get married and start a family. But when he moved to Queens, New York, he was disturbed by the local Jewish community’s attitude towards religion. The great...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 13, 2022 | Happiness and Joy, Psalms, Shemini Atzeret
After seven glorious days of the Sukkot festival, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, the party is still not over! Today, the eighth day, is Shemini Atzeret, the Eighth Day of Assembly, when the people of Israel yet again celebrate together in great joy: “Seven...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 13, 2022 | Ecclesiastes, Faith, Sukkot
By Elie Mischel In 1912, as the women’s suffrage movement was beginning to pick up steam, the brilliant former President of Princeton University and the newly elected President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, made the following comments on women and voting: ...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 12, 2022 | Sukkot, Tishrei
On December 19, 1963, Martin Luther King gave an unusual speech at Western Michigan University. He said: “Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the...
by Rabbi Elie Mischel | f 21, 2022 | Repentance
Fifteen years ago, when I was working as a corporate attorney in New Jersey, I joined a volunteer program in which lawyers helped Holocaust survivors fill out incredibly long and detailed applications for Holocaust reparations from Germany. Though this was more than...
