PARSHAS NASO 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS NASO 5776 “THE LUCKIEST MAN” On June 1, 1925, a young baseball player named Lou Gehrig was sent to pinch hit for shortstop Paul “Pee Wee” Wanninger. The next day, June 2, Yankee manager Miller Huggins started Gehrig […]
PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5776 “IN PERFECT FORMATION” A Paratrooper’s Story By Dr. Moshe Amirav On Monday, the 5th of June 1967, I arrived in Western Jerusalem as a soldier in a paratrooper brigade. All through that […]
PARSHAS BECHUKOSAI 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS BECHUKOSAI 5776 “LETTERS OF FIRE” The Torah That Went From the Depths to the Heavens Lost With the Space Shuttle, a Holocaust Memento Debbi Wilgoren, Washington Post[1] Wednesday, Febuary19, 2003 The bar mitzvah took […]
PARSHAS BEHAR 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHAR 5776 “CHARITY OF TIME” The Gold family was sitting shiva for their revered father, Mr. Jack (Yaakov) Gold in October 1976. Rabbi Yaakov Pollack, Rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Boro Park and […]
PARSHAS EMOR 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS EMOR 5776 “COUNTING DAYS” Imagine there is a bank that credits your account with $86,400 each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day, and every evening it deletes whatever part of […]
PARSHAS KEDOSHIM 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS KEDOSHIM 5776 “PURITY OF EXPERIENCE” Elderly woman breaks student’s nose for failing to give up bus seat Julian Ryall in Tokyo, 09 Jul 2010 Tamiko Masuta, 66, the manager of an apartment complex, was […]
PARSHAS ACHREI MOS
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS ACHREI MOS “INSPECT YOUR BRAKES” Chrysler recall of vehicles for possible brake failure By Peter Valdes-Dapena, senior writer January 19, 2010 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Chrysler Group is recalling about 24,000 late-model Chrysler, Dodge and […]
PARSHAS METZORA/SHABBOS HAGADOL 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS METZORA/SHABBOS HAGADOL 5776 “THE ART OF INSTRUCTION” A number of years ago, a student in Yeshivas Sha’ar Yoshuv in Far Rockaway acted in a manner that disgraced himself and the entire yeshiva. It was […]
PARSHAS TAZRIA/HACHODESH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS TAZRIA/HACHODESH 5776 “SOCIAL NATION” Two Friends By David Ignatow I have something to tell you. I’m listening. I’m dying. I’m sorry to hear. I’m growing old. It’s terrible. It is. I thought you should […]
SHEMINI/PARAH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH SHEMINI/PARAH 5776 “PURE HAPPINESS” Geneen Roth lost her lifesavings in the Madoff scandal. The book she wrote following the ordeal, “Lost and Found” became a New York Times Bestseller. The following excerpt is from an […]