Inspiration 1711 articles

This year’s 25th Annual Yachad Family Shabbaton is scheduled for May 13- 15. The first time my family decided to attend such an event was five years ago; a real eye-opener...

My twin brother and I were always inseparable. For 19 years, Nathan and I have done just about everything together from playing basketball and taking French lessons, to life-guarding and finishing...

דברי הצומות וזעקתם – אסתר ט לא Monday morning, 10 AM. I barely find the strength to open the OU Israel staff meeting that I had scheduled two weeks earlier. Images...

The greatest problem facing the Jewish People today is not anti-Semitism, nor is it the threat of Israel’s enemies; rather, it is the tragedy of massive assimilation and intermarriage. The statistics...

At fourteen, I was drawn to a small group of older students in my yeshiva. They were clearly the “in crowd” and didn’t sweat the small stuff; small meaning homework, tests,...

Purim, lotteries, the casting and drawing of units in a not-so-random game of chance. From “day to day, and from month to month” until the 13th of Adar was set and...

The Megillah is the ultimate Great Plot. Really. It has all the ingredients of The Good Novel – suspense, treachery, and the intervention of a Hidden Hand — never mentioned, but...

Klal Yisrael. All of Israel. One people. One community. One. Newspapers and web sites recently reported about several hundred passengers – Orthodox yeshiva students, tourists, secular college-aged Jews on Birthright –...

Sadly, the image is not so difficult to conjure up: An old Jew, stripped to his ill-fitting pajama bottoms, his ribs pronounced in his emaciated frame, is being mocked as he...

As a matchmaker and dating coach, I hear the same questions practically every day. From women: “How did a girl like that get a guy like him?” “Ziva! I know her....