Inspiration 1711 articles

In the old days, when I was growing up, most babies seemed to be born on time, and the bris took place on the eighth day as prescribed in the Torah....

Pepsi. Cheerios. Verizon. Apple. Google. Mustang. Tropicana. Have you ever wondered how brand names come to be? I imagine that hours, days, weeks or even months are dedicated to choosing a...

When I moved in with Dorothy, my friends were in shock. We were just graduating college and most were planning to live in the more popular destination of Washington Heights, with...

“I don’t see how you do it,” someone said when I mentioned I was a hospice volunteer. Fear hung in the air. Death. How can you be so close? Why would...

It was Sunday again–a day that always seems to last longer than its allotted twenty four hours. It didn’t even have the distinction of being a very eventful Sunday. There were...

l sit cross-legged on my bedroom floor with my daughters at my side. They are six and three. On the floor between us, my black jewelry box lies open. My daughters’...

“Shvoo-oat? That’s a new one. Is it one of those minor holidays?” I’d met Sharon downstairs at the mailboxes in our building’s lobby. I’ve never figured out exactly what floor she...

At many Jewish weddings, the custom of breaking a glass is often accompanied by the recitation or singing of ‘Im Eshkachech’: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand...

A young man, who had grown up in one of the more insular of Jerusalem’s Hassidic communities, had a plan. He planned to run away; away from the stifling sea of...

I have been blessed to be a mother to wonderful, energetic, adorable, impossible, lovable and confusing children for a number of years now. And in that time I’ve learned a lot...