Inspiration 1711 articles

Pirkei Avos really only has five chapters. The sixth chapter, called “Kinyan Torah” (the Acquisition of Torah) or “Perek d’Rabbi Meir” (the Chapter of Rabbi Meir), was appended because of the...

In the Spotlight podcast series introduces Orthodox Jewish women who, in both their personal and professional lives, serve as remarkable role models for our community. In this episode, Rebbetzin Dr. Adina...

Vizzini: Inconceivable! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. In my naïve youth, it took me years of knowing The...

They call it a Yom Kashe in Israel. A difficult day. Across the country, ceremonies are memorializing the stories of chayalim (soldiers) who lost their lives fighting for the state, and...

I was recently talking with my oldest about the pride I felt when she started school at two years old and her teachers commended her knowledge, and conscientious recitation, of berachot....

Immediately prior to Passover, I posted an article on Anti-Semitic Canards, a phenomenon that is all too common in what is supposed to be an enlightened era. Carey Purcell’s bewildering and...

I just had the immense and surreal pleasure of celebrating my first baby becoming a bat mitzvah. At some point in the course of all the preparations, it occurred to me...

Our rabbis teach that we are currently in the final stages before the arrival of the Messiah. We are also told that our future redemption will parallel the redemption from Egypt...

I wish I could remember the source of the line, “Extremes are the easiest to explain and the hardest to justify.” I don’t know who said it first, or who said...

There have been a lot of accusations of anti-Semitism lately, and an equal number of excuses. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Jews, rather than Russians, might be behind US...