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As many of us were praying in the synagogue during the afternoon of Yom Kippur Wall Street was having one of its worst afternoons in history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down below 8,600 points. $8.3 trillion in shareholder wealth has b...

...n Jewish News, The Jewish Voice and we will be blogging on Jewcy.com about the book next week and it is featured on Jewcy.com's book club. In addition The J in San Francisco will be doing a feature on the book and FRUMSATIRE.NET featured it on hi......

Writers Say the Torah Holds Key to Success in Business -- By ALLEN SALKIN (New York Times) The authors of the new book “Jewish Wisdom for Business Success” (Amacom, 2008), have had a hard time attracting attention from any media outlets, ...

The markets have been very volatile lately and according to most experts the United States has entered a recession. All of this uncertainty and financial difficulties is a result of the credit crises that was sparked by the collapse of the subprime...

Rabbi Levi Brackman was interviewed about his new book JEWISH WISDOM FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS on the Biz Radio Network's The Money Man Report with Daniel Frishberg   To listen to part 1 of the interview click here: http://www.bizradio.com/po...

Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of Radio’s great talk show hosts Dr Alvin Augustus Jones . Listen to the interview here: http://www.dralvinjones.com/content/01 Rabbi Levi Brackman.wma . A follow up interview with D...

To view the video of the interview with 9 News Colorado click on "Read more" below (if you see this on amazon.com then then click to Levi Brackman's blog).

The fact that Jews are disproportionally successful in many fields of endeavor is undeniable. The statistics simply speak for themselves. Jews make up less than half of one percent of the world’s population but they consistently have made up mo...

With an eye to gleaning savvy business tips from the Torah, Rabbi Brackman and columnist Jaffe cover a span of topics-"Conquering Fear," management styles (referred to as "Patriarchal Business Models"), negotiation and "Deali...

The Torah adds another important element of wisdom for leadership here that is important for all people to know especially leaders of businesses and organizations but it applies to others as well.  Moses relates a very moving interaction he ...

...tter of life and death. The Torah says (Leviticus 19:16): “You shall not stand idly by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood.” Maimonides (Laws of Murder 1:13) explains this verse to mean that one who is able to save another and do......

The prisoner exchange between Israel and Hizbullah was so painful and disturbing that, in my eternal search for optimism, I tried to find some light and hope. At first I thought that at least there is some type of common ground being show here.The Is...

Some think that moral relativism is synonymous with progress. A moral relativist thinks that there are no moral absolutes. Rather, according to them, morality is a subjective choice that varies from one society to another. I would argue however, th...

     

...ear and greed, self-doubt and overconfidence, emotion and intellect. Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe show how the original 'blue print for success' came straight from the writings that billions of Jews, Christians and Moslems hold sacred.&q......

In the UK Millions of people have tuned in on a daily basis to watch a group of ordinary people living their lives. Big Brother fervour had grabbed the people in the UK once again. But hang on, what is so attractive about watching ordinary people doi...

In this week's Torah portion we read that G-d told Moses to tell the children of Israel, (Leviticus 25:23) “For the land is mine, you are but sojourners and residents with me.” Does this mean that if one bought a property and the deed...

Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, recently spoke to a Jewish audience. He started his talk with what he called a Dvar Torah, or a thought from that weeks’ Torah portion. He prefaced his comments by saying, “Before I go into th...

In his latest column in The Forward and in other of his recent writings, David Klinghoffer has complained bitterly about the names and insults that have been hurled at him by what he terms as mostly “liberal Jews” because he dared to poin...

This week a horrific story of child abuse came to light in Jerusalem. Child abuse is always terrible and leaves psychological scars on its victims. Tragically in this case, one of the children involved has been severely and irreversibly physically in...

The Bible talks about all types of Tzara’at (leprosy) including Tzara’at that inflicts buildings. The Torah relates, “G-d spoke to Moses and Aaron saying: when you arrive to the land of Canaan that I give you as a possession, and I ...

My friend David seemed very excited. “Rabbi,” he said to me, “I need you to help me.” Without skipping a beat he continued, “I met my Bashert (preordained soul mate) last night and I want to make a blessing: tell me the ...

We humans can be destructive to ourselves. Many people live unhealthy lifestyles because it gives them short-term enjoyment, ignoring the long-term suffering it causes. The same thing applies to religion. It has now, yet again, been proven that relig...

The markets have been very volatile lately and according to most experts the United States has entered a recession. All of this uncertainty and financial difficulties is a result of the credit crises that was sparked by the collapse of the subprime m...

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Ki Tisa was my Bar Mitzvah portion. It always brings back memories of the most embarrassing experience of my life and simultaneously the cause of the most important lesson I have ever learned. As a rebellious twelve-year-old, I refused to go to Bar M...

...errorist groups like Hamas. Already there are those who dare to disagree with this policy. Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said this week that, “Without engaging in dialogue with the Palestinians who govern Gaza, the peace process ......

Below is an excerpt from Rabbi Levi Brackman's upcoming book: "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success" that relates to this weeks' Torah portion Vayakhal which begins with what Moses did upon descending the Mountain with the second set...

The Law of a thief is discussed at the end of this week’s Torah portion: “He shall return the robbed item that he robbed…. or anything about which he had sworn falsely – he shall repay (its principle) the value of the stolen ...