Month: February 2016
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Handling The Difficult Questions – A Comment On Parshas Mishpatim
This week’s Torah reading, Mishpatim, has a lot the reader may find troubling. “How can the Torah say such a thing?” is a natural response. But there is a difference between asking in anger and asking in faith. The truth is that there is always a good answer to your question, and it is the…
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Halacha Is Not The Problem – It’s The Approach
As I think about the issue of agunot and related matters that the Orthodox seem to have such a hard time grappling with, I realize like Freud says that most problems are overdetermined not to mention unconscious. Meaning, the flaws in the system have nothing to do with the Torah and everything to do with…
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Your Own Very Personal Rocky Moment
The Rocky myth is about Rocky winning. That is why the classic Rocky poster shows him with his arm upraised, literally on top of his world. Philadelphia, known as “the city of brotherly love,” but which he had to conquer through “blood, sweat and tears.” But Sylvester Stallone, who produced the most recent Rocky movie, Creed, has…
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Suggesting a New Global Brand: World Peace Cafe, by McDonald’s
Very briefly: I was thinking about how Trader Joe’s can’t keep riced cauliflower in stock. And about how McDonald’s is always struggling to stay relevant, and reinvent itself. About how McDonald’s is a global symbol of America. And about Bridge of Spies, where Tom Hanks (playing a lawyer defending a Russian spy) says that we have to…
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Inside a High-Tech Brainstorming Session
It was a bright and sunny day in California, unseasonably warm. The staff gathered in the open atrium at the base of the stairs. It was their first day together as a full team, their first day as a real company with a headquarters. None of the employees dared speak. Instead, they witnessed. The meeting…
2016 Diary - Dannielle Blumenthal 