Domestic Violence Reading‘Stopping the Other War-The One Within Our Families’September 30, 2007 Domestic Homicides On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.16 Women are much more likely than men to be…

This is another transitional year for both you and me. Transition is, of course, another word for change. Most of us have problems dealing with change; we all get set in our ways, in our thinking, and it’s not easy to accept change, especially when they mean change of family, friends, even home. Let me share a parable about change: A man…

Since we are coming to the Jewish High Holidays of Yom Kippur and Roshhashanh, I thought I’d share this story: Sidney telephones Rabbi Levy. He says, “Rabbi, I know tonight is Yom Kippur, but tonight the Yankees are in the playoffs. Rabbi, I’m a life-long Yankees fan. I’ve got to watch the Yankees game on TV. “Rabbi Levy replies, “Sidney, that’s what…

The cartoon strip, Dilbert, by Scott Adams is popular because it examines the sometime idiocy of the business world. In a recent one that I saved particularly for this sermon, the boss by his door and says to Dilbert: ‘Prepare a proposal for this customer.’ ‘Why me?’ ‘You were walking by.’ Dilbert looks at it and says ‘We can’t win this business.…