Inspiration 1711 articles

How does one journey as a secular Jew and a producer for ABC’s “Good Morning America” — from attending White House Christmas parties and walking the sands of Saudi Arabia, to...

Early one morning, I entered my kitchen and found a persimmon and an apple partly gnawed. Bits of persimmon skin were splattered on my kitchen counter. Horrified and disgusted, I shrieked...

If you ask me why he laughed, I’ll say: your guess is as good as mine. Who am I to understand a tzaddik? At the time, I thought I must be...

You and I know what it’s like, because we’re both human: the sense of innocence, and of having been wronged. The keen desire to craft some put-down that will diminish the...

We couldn’t have found a more fitting symbol for the twentieth century’s close than the failure, in 1999’s last days, of NASA’s mission to the Red Planet. “Mars Lander’s Apparent Loss...

What if the shofar sounded last week, last month, last year? And what if we slept right through it? We all have moments when we feel something deep within our hearts...

From the pages of Jewish Action “Try my chocolate cake, it’s delicious!” These simple words once struck terror in my heart. As a young woman with an eating disorder, I was...

From the pages of Jewish Action When my wife and I were first married, we traveled to England. Attending to mundane matters upon our arrival, I needed a haircut. I went...

Allow me to tell you about a very special young lady named Navi. Navi is 23 years old. She is absolutely gorgeous. She is smart. She is funny. She has more...

Atara London Grenadir – Painting from the Inside Out  By Bayla Sheva Brenner “My works are ‘soul works’, not just a representation of a Jewish theme,” says Atara London Grenadir, popular...