By Yehudis Fishman A popular saying contrasts ‘sticks and stones’ with words, but in Jewish thought words ARE like stones. They can either break down or build up. Indeed words can be like chess pieces that can either capture or protect a special piece called a queen, a mystical reference to the soul. Living in …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin Shabbat Shalom, LPJC Community. May this sermon raise the levaya of Chaim Schneur Zalman Yehuda Ben Aaron Leib and help the refuah shleima of my dear cousin Tzofit Ben Reviva. The parsha begin with the word “Bo”, meaning to come. Hashem instructors Moses to come with Pharoah, not to …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin The king moves one space in any direction; that is a rule. Develop, control the center and castle as soon as possible; those are a guidelines. In a podcast episode with business coach Sharon Richter, we spoke about the important of knowing the “rules of the game”. Of course, …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin Last weekend I was screaming on the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World. It was my first time in years riding a roller coaster and was certainly out on my comfort zone. The truth of the matter was that I did not have to …
By Andrea Elrom, Certified ADHD & Executive Function Coach The Pandemic has allowed me the luxury of watching way more Netflix and Hulu than I ever could have imagined. A year ago, I would not have seen this as a positive but now I can confidently say that it has opened my eyes into new …
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By CEO National Master Evan Rabin Compared to most chess masters, I have read a minute amount of chess books cover to cover, likely under five. I made master mostly because I played 950+ rated tournaments and went over all of my games with some help of my coaches. With that said, there were certainly …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin When National Master Jesse Lozano, National Master Bob Holliman, Shelby Lohrman and I won “Best Team Name” at the United States Amateur Team East last February with “Caruanavirus”, I had no idea the virus would have a major effect on my life. Two weeks later I did my last …
By Dmitriy Belyavskiy Chess is a wonderful, exciting and intellectual game, which has been around for almost 1,500 years, played around the world by different ages from schoolboys and schoolgirls to scientists, artists, and even “played” by politicians and world dictators. History of chess does not keep the exact record where precisely this wonderful and …
By Premier Chess CEO National Master Evan Rabin I was born and raised on the Upper West Side as a reform Ashkenazi Jew. I had my bar mitzvah at Stephen Wise Synagogue and went to Churchill and Dwight. In 2008, thanks to some inspiration from Alanna Katz, I went on an Oranim Taglit trip. …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin Our 3-day first week of virtual camp flew by. Here are some numbers of camp so far: -76+ registrations -7 instructors -8-1 student-teacher ratio This past week we had a whopping 40 kids in the mornings, split into 5 groups, taught by National Expert Brian Wilmeth, Director of Virtual …
