Inspiration 1711 articles

Every September I am reminded of a series of photographs in a family album which I dubbed “First Days”. They were all taken at the same spot outside our house as...

Every summer when the weather heats up and sane people take refuge inside their apartments, I breathe a sigh of relief when I switch on the air conditioner. Not only for...

Every chartered Aliyah flight is significant and has it’s own special signature. July 19 was certainly no exception. With a little over a week into the war against Hizbullah, hundreds of...

Seminary is a time for learning. Many of the lessons, however, cannot be gained from a book. All names have been changed for the sake of privacy. Jerusalem, 1975 The girls...

My sixteen-year-old son bounded too energetically down a flight of stairs and twisted his ankle. No big deal, he thought. He went to the doctor on his own, and the first...

A cool breeze blows on Shabbat evening as we sit on the white plastic Israeli-made swing. There are still vestiges of a multi colored sky which is slowly turning darker. Our...

We are among the lucky ones. We are not under missile attack anymore. We are in apartments with family, or friends, or share complexes with other families from the North. Some...

How I am spending their summer vacation. Tuesday Today I insisted we do something educational, so we drove to a kids’ science museum where I got to lay down on a...

Revisiting my bar-mitzvah, on its 70th anniversary The year 1936 was marked by many important events. Among them: FDR was elected to a second term as President of the United States,...

From the pages of the OU’s JEWISH ACTION magazine (Summer 5766/2006) Listen to Steve Savitsky’s conversation with the converts themselves, on Around the Dining Room Table. It’s said that the “truth...