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Dial-a-Rabbi.(The Talk of the Town)(Aish HaTorah)
Rabbi Stuart Shiff, one of six New York rabbis employed by Aish HaTorah, a nonprofit Jewish-education organization, carries two pieces of equipment: a BlackBerry and a book of the Torah. Weekdays, he treks to businesses around the city on behalf of Aish's Executive Learning Program--for a voluntary donation (average: ten thousand dollars), bosses who are too busy to go to shul can have a rabbi meet them at the office. "Studying the Torah took my mind off the stress," Lisa Shalett, the C.E.O. of Sanford Bernstein, says in an Aish brochure.
"What this program does is it blows away all the excuses," Shiff explained recently, in one of Aish's conference rooms in midtown. "We have almost a postal carrier's motto: nothing stops us." It was 9:30 A.M. on the day before Hanukkah, and Shiff--who was wearing a black velvet yarmulke--had a meeting with Seth Horowitz, the former chief executive of Everlast, the boxing-supply company (which he had just sold for a reported hundred and sixty-eight million dollars). Horowitz, who is thirty-one, started studying with Shiff eighteen months ago. "I just needed to talk to someone," he said, turning off his iPhone. "I've gained so much knowledge. This is the beauty of the program--the rabbi comes to your office, you discuss the Torah, and you talk about life."
They had been reading Genesis 37, where Jacob arrives with his sons in Canaan. " 'Jacob settled in the land of his father's sojournings,' " Shiff read. "Now, there's an interesting extrapolation in the rabbinic commentary. It says vayeshev--that Jacob wanted to dwell. The extrapolation is that he wanted to have a life of ease. He didn't want to have pressure or issues." Then disaster happens: Joseph, Jacob's favorite son, is sold as a slave into Egypt. "It's a very strange thing here," Shiff said. "All Jacob wanted was some peace and quiet. What's so wrong with that?"
Horowitz leaned back in a swivel chair. "It's kind of the opposite of what we're here for? Free will? Our opportunity to choose between good and bad?"
Shiff's exegesis abounded with business-world metaphors: in prison in Egypt, Joseph mistakenly puts "all his trust in his network," but he later rises to become "like the vice-president" of a company. Shiff had an appointment at eleven, at ...
- Carniglia Construction Receives Recognition from Aish HaTorah of Los Angeles.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 8, 2003 700+ words
...recognition for its work in building the Aish HaTorah in Los Angeles, Carniglia Construction...the main hall of the synagogue. The Aish HaTorah in Los Angeles is part of a global network...Rabbi Noah Weinberg. Weinberg founded Aish HaTorah in 1974 to combat the large numbers...
- Aish HaTorah installs Second Temple model opposite Western Wall. 'Everyone who...
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post JONAH NEWMAN JONAH NEWMAN August 6, 2009 700+ words
...NEWMAN Jerusalem Post 08-06-2009 Aish HaTorah installs Second Temple model opposite...model on the roof of a yet- unfinished Aish HaTorah yeshiva building, across from the Western...sit on a new educational building for Aish HaTorah's short-term outreach programs...
- Judge Shiff rules that Bridgeport has right to file for bankruptcy. (Alan H.W....
- Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer Hampton, Ted July 23, 1991 700+ words
...enjoy, Bankruptcy Court Judge Alan H.W. Shiff said in a 29-page opinion. He also held...opinion he handed down yesterday, Judge Shiff said the Bridgeport Financial Review Board...implication," the judge held. Judge Shiff added that "there is no reason to believe...
- Activating Exodus: the art of Melissa Shiff.(art & activism)(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Afterimage Diack, Heather September 1, 2006 700+ words
...is the Matzo," Canadian artist Melissa Shiff's 2005 Passover installation at the Bronfman...Marshall McLuhan is only the beginning of Shiff's project to critically reconsider the...contemporary art. Media, according to Shiff, a video, installation, and performance...
- Bridgeport judge denies protection for city during appeal of his bankruptcy...
- Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer Hampton, Ted September 16, 1991 700+ words
...bench Thursday night, Judge Alan H. W. Shiff said Bridgeport attorneys failed to show...bankruptcy filing, should continue. Judge Shiff said the city did not pass four necessary...sustain that burden of proof." Judge Shiff's action has exposed Bridgeport to numerous...
- Madison Ave. club offering discount designer fashions. (David Shiff Club)
- Magazine article from: WWD March 18, 1986 700+ words
...300-square-foot store, called the David Shiff Club, opened last November on the third floor...designer boutiques near us," said Semadar Shiff, a principal of the business along with David Shiff, her husband. "I don't believe we have...
- Melissa Shiff, Elijah Chair: art, ritual, and social action.
- Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art March 22, 2004 700+ words
MELISSA SHIFF, ELIJAH CHAIR: ART, RITUAL, AND SOCIAL...of homes. Toronto-based artist Melissa Shiff compares the tunnel to Mitzrayim, 'small...gesture of openness toward the other. As Shiff puts it, "my hope is that one of the doors...
- Tadiran Communications: Europeans freezing orders: CFO Nehemia Shiff: European...
- Newspaper article from: Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel) August 1, 2006 700+ words
...2005. Tadiran Communications CFO Nehemia Shiff said, "We're meeting our work plan...premature to assess long-term effects. Shiff explained to "Globes" the impact of the...your results for the coming quarters? Shiff: "We're not talking about short-term...
