Monday, November 2nd 2026 |
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
Why are women blessed with Post Menstrual Syndrome – socially acceptable depression – anytime the sink stops up; or the world’s will rebels against theirs?
“Yeah,” says my good friend, Herb. “Why...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
If you were a magistrate of the Canaanite District 5 – about 1400 BCE -and Judah came up for judgment, what a test of your judgment there would be. Or put the...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
I often tell my close friends that I spend more money going to Memphis than my friends who go to glamorous locations like Costa de Sol,Paris, Aegean cruises. It begins this way:...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
I don’t think it’s really necessary to inform my nationwide reading audience of a dozen or so – including my two cousins in Jersey – of the formalized clans of Judaism. But...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
Thoughtful Jews are still trembling at the Pew Report. Many are calling it an obituary on Judaism. As we all guessed, intermarriage is up about 10% (as well as we can measure...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
The “normal curve” or normal distribution that has ruled Nature ever since G-d molded mud into the shape of planets has somehow deserted us. Oh, it still accurately reflects everything from the...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
Well, what goes around comes around, they say; and Ecclesiastes, one of the less humorous books in our bible, puts it more sedately, “there’s nothing new under the sun”. And as usual, the...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
When the Creator designed the Universe, He was careful to erect impassible barriers between the land of the living and the ex-living. He who carved the mountains and filled the basins of...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
The invitation in all respects was normal; event, location, time. True, this simcha was a hundred miles away, in Birmingham, and even worse, the Mapquest directions would have instilled fear in the...
By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF
Succot, like perfect sweet and sour cabbage soup, has two flavors. A single holiday with two themes. We celebrate the bounty of the grape and olive harvest in the Promised Land; also...
