INTERVIEWS

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of high tech, it was a time of terrorism; it was the period of prosperity, it was the epoch of corporate crime; it was the season of fame and acclaim, it was the era of shame and blame; it was the spring of Hollywood love stories.

From Sharif Hasan to Mordechai Yosef, from the Kardashians to Kabbalah, from the West Coast to the Western Wall, the rabbi speaks about his transformative journey.

After David B. Samadi appeared on Law and Order this past June playing the role of a surgeon, he could say something that "Dr. McDreamy" of Grey's Anatomy could never boast, and that is: "I AM a real doctor and I also played one on TV."

When most people start a new job they are met with encouraging words like “knock ‘em dead,” “the best of luck,” “go and get ‘em.” But things were a bit different for Ambassador Gabriela Shalev when she assumed her post in September of 2008 as Israel’s fourteenth Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Before her bags were unpacked, many told her to go back home.

A Look at Dr. Mordechai Shani's extensive resume would convince anyone that he's held more positions than a Yogi. Since 1970 he's held over 45 different titles.

If you love the Jewish State of Israel, then the last face you want to see on cable news is that of an Israeli consul general. It’s not because they are not pretty” enough for airtime, but because If they are on, it means that Israelis are dead, that a suicide bomber struck again, that human body parts are strewn across a blood drenched street, that mothers are grieving, that children are orphaned, and that a murderous blast has once again anguished the core of the promised homeland.

Aliza Davidovit interviews author Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Shore about the meaning of life, finding God, and about his books "Meeting Elijah: True Tales of Eliyahu Hanavi" & "The Face of the Waters: Chasidic teachings & stories for the twenty-first century."

His book includes 60 stories of modern day individuals who claim to have been saved by a miracle through an encounter Elijah the Prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNQ3UnLkcxU

When Paul Sladkus says “action” and the cameras begin to roll you can be sure he is focusing on something that few others do--on something good. Unlike other news organizations that tend to focus on the negative and all that is wrong in the world, Sladkus, CEO of Good News Broadcast, searches for what’s good in this world--and he finds it.

Eliot Lawrence Spitzer arrived in this world on June 10, 1959. He was raised in affluent Riverdale, New York, with his two siblings: a brother, Daniel, and a sister, Emily. His parents, both American born, met in the Catskills, where his father, Bernard, played the saxophone in a band and his mother, Anne,
worked as a counselor

Of all of Claudio Stivelman's possessions—and he has many—it is a gold pocket watch his 84-year-old father, Michael, gave him just a few years ago which he treasures most. For certain, he does not need it to give him the time of day as this Miami real estate developer owns over 100 watches.

The fit, young man was walking on the treadmill at the posh New York Reebok Sports Club when his eye caught a CNN news report covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unable to contain his anger at the skewed pro-Palestinian coverage, Ronn Torossian, a typical native New Yorker, began talking back to the TV grumbling against the inconsistencies and falsehoods of the report. Many a Jew has screamed or thrown a sock at the tube while watching CNN’s coverage of the historic conflict. Few, however, as did Torossian, find the love of his life while doing it. In fact, it is precisely because Ronn Torossian steps off the treadmill of apathy to do something about such things that today he finds himself living a dream come true.

If the walls could talk in Yuri Traisman’s Greenwich, Connecticut manor, they would weep and scream, sing and laugh, pray and rebel. But they would also know when to stay silent—for that is what they have been taught best. When night falls and the safety of darkness enters through the massive windows of his home, one can imagine the “forbidden art” collection that bedecks his walls becoming animated and creating a surreal ruckus. Joined by the sculptures and figurines, they’d all raise a toast to the one cause that forged them into existence: the will to be free.