Inspiration 1711 articles

What is your relationship with the OU? Over the years, the OU have been our kosher supervisors at Levana Restaurant. We ran it for a long, long time, and we closed...

Harvard University recently revoked offers of admission to at least ten incoming freshmen after they exchanged sexually-explicit memes and racist messages in a private Facebook group chat. The admitted students had...

After surviving Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl opened his practice as a psychiatrist on the Upper East Side, and he was shocked by the stories patients told him. A human being who leads...

The Modzitzer and Me Intro: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, former head of the Orthodox Union and a popular speaker and writer, was a young rabbi living in Brooklyn when war broke...

As I write this, the world is still reeling from the cowardly attack by ISIS on the Manchester Arena, which left 22 dead, 59 wounded and dozens reportedly missing. Terrorism is...

I’ve written about this before but perhaps it bears repeating in light of recent events. Which recent events? I have some particular thoughts but it really doesn’t matter because whenever you...

Let’s Open Our Sefarim This Yom Yerushalayim On May 16 and 17, 2017, Shlomo Horwitz of Jewish Crossroads conducted interviews with two heroic paratroopers involved in liberating the Kotel on Yom Yerushalayim....

The Orthodox Union (OU) thanked the Florida state legislature for heeding its call for greater security funding for Jewish schools and called on other states to follow Florida’s lead. On Monday,...

Years ago, I worked as an extra in TV and films. One of the films where I can be found lurking in the background (and once dead center, during the opening...