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Visiting Zimbabwe can be a heart-wrenching experience. It is a beautiful land of warm and soft-spoken people. But hovering over the landscape at all times is the specter of extreme poverty and political oppression. The poverty is merely tragic. But the political oppression is brutal, murderous, and criminal. Most of the people I met went…

Lying at the heart of southcentral Africa, Zimbabwe sits between the Zambezi River to the North and Limpopo River to the South. A country ravaged by HIV Aids, political unrest, unemployment, poverty and food shortages, Zimbabwe undoubtedly has a long and difficult road ahead if it is to reclaim its former status as “the bread-basket…

Day 5 of Rabbi Shmuley’s Visit to Africa with Christian Relief Organization ”Rock of Africa”. We spent our Sabbath in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Dennis Prager and I made a Friday night Sabbath dinner for our Christian fellow volunteers from Rock of Africa. About seven Americans and six Zimbabweans were our guests. We ate under the…

Last night we left Victoria Falls and drove two hours to the most beautiful tree lodge in the middle of a Safari game park. We slept in tree houses. This morning, at 5:30am, took a two hour safari. Saw Cheetah, White Rhinos, many other animals. People were super nice and happy to have a job.…

I am someone who uses the expression ‘life-transforming” very sparingly because very few things in life are. Change is something that requires constant effort and constant practice. It doesn’t come cheaply. But I will use the expression to describe what I did today, Thanksgiving 2009. As a volunteer with my good friend Glen Megill’s organization,…

For the first time in his presidency Barack Obama has, according to a Gallup poll, fallen below a fifty percent approval rating. It’s not hard to see why. No, it’s not because he’s spending too much money. There seem to be many Americans who want him to boost social programs. Less so is it because…

Every once in a while a story comes along so jolting that it is scarcely believable. One such story was that which appeared in the New York Times of all places this past Sunday about how the Jews’ Free School in London has been ordered to admit a child whose mother had a non-orthodox conversion…

The single greatest injustice facing American parents today is that they are financially forced to send their children to schools not of their choosing. If you want to understand the level of unfairness you need look no further than my home state of New Jersey. Saturday’s Wall Street Journal reported that our state’s Supreme Court…

This Sunday I’m going to be conducting an intimate conversation with Jon Gosselin at the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan. America has to start having serious conversations about fame. 

Over the weekend I read Startup Nation, the new book about why Israel has emerged as an unlikely global leader in high-tech. Even if its authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer were not my friends and, in the case of Saul, my editor at the post I would still say that it’s the best advertisement…
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