Lessons From An American Hero

By Kenneth D. Sits Do you think there is an American alive who has not yet heard of our newest national hero? Of course, I am talking about the small framed, 18 year-old Olympic gymnast named Kerri Strug. Her name has been “vaulted” to Olympic immortality with her gutsy performance in the women’s team competition last …

The Implications of Esther

By Steven Brownfield At first glance, Esther appears to be a thoroughly secular work, unconcerned with spiritual things. It tells the intriguing story of how the exiled Jews avoided annihilation through the courage and tact of the Persian queen, who was herself secretly a Jew. In ages past, many of the Jewish Rabbis refused to accept …