Inspiration 1711 articles

An internet search of the phrase “self-confidence” produces pages and pages of results, and they seem to basically all be articles about raising low self-esteem. Not until the third page did...

A few months ago, a colleague suggested a television program called The Good Place, a highly-rated show that follows the adventures of a group of friends in the afterlife. My colleague...

Purim has always been my favorite holiday. (While we have not yet welcomed the month with Purim, it is Adar. If I can already be thinking about how to use up...

In January, a fire destroyed the building that housed Yossi Heiman’s Fish Market in Borough Park, Brooklyn, leaving him with no place to operate his business and no ability to draw...

For weeks, I told anyone who would listen about my plans to travel to a friend’s 40th birthday party in another state. Each time, I got a funny look – who...

Have you heard about the hottest restaurant in Israel? The Yachad Café is a once a month event where the participants of Yachad Israel’s vocational program get a chance to display...

When I was a kid, my mother would try to make Rosh Chodesh a Thing: we would often have a nicer dinner and eat it in the dining room. As I...

Did you ever notice that some authority figures really don’t like it when lay people question them? I remember the following incident quite clearly: I was in college in nineteen-eighty-something, before...

In addition to the insightful, entertaining and, quite frankly, brilliant articles that I contribute to OU Life, I am also a regular contributor to the web site Jew in the City....