Inspiration 1711 articles

My family had the recent pleasure of attending Yachad’s annual Shabbaton in Waterbury, CT. As first timers, the weekend was an eye-opening experience for all of us and something of a...

I owe my wife, our children and the entire course of my life over the past 20 years to having a few hours to spare back in late December 1985. I...

Like a post I wrote last year, this is not really my story to tell… but it is a story that, today, needs to be told: When our older son Gilad...

It’s a rainy Saturday night. Aunts and uncles are pouring into my parents’ living room, arriving from the five boroughs of New York City for another monthly gathering. Already in pajamas...

“It could only happen in Eretz Yisroel,” declared Blimi, her dark eyes gleaming. Our shabbos guest, Blimi Wechsler, was enthusiastically describing the trip she and her friends had taken after Chanukah....

I WENT TO A FUNERAL — a spring funeral — in the city of Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier was killed; a Jewish boy had died. Another name was added to a...

Can you know who you are if you don’t know who your God is? To reject your parents’ faith for another is wrenching and liberation, and more American are doing it...

This story was told to me by my friend and neighbor whose mother, Eva, was named after the Jewish heroine, Erna Gantz. Mor on a boat to Lucern, Switzerland, August 1969....

On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves, each man, a lamb or kid for each father’s house, a lamb or kid for the household. *...

It’s the little trials in life that put us to the test and bring out the best – or the worst – in us. This story was told to me by...