Inspiration 1711 articles

It is so hard to change because we are creatures of habit. Try switching your seat at the dining room table and you almost feel lost.

Food.  If not defined by, our lives are enhanced by it, enriched by it and sometimes troubled by it.  Our days are marked less by hours than by meals.  From the...

A new model of matchmaking in Maryland called “SUN,” or Singles Uniting Network, is taking shidduchim out of the hands of official shadchanim and placing it into the hands of singles....

I have observed a recurring theme in my own writing. In past articles on this site, I have advised: That, if we arrive at shul and someone is sitting in our...

What do women really want? Hear Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi on the Voice of Israel, tell about her childhood, and how she became the giant in Torah education she is today.

The big news this past week was that Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, asked a rabbi about attending the inaugural balls on Shabbos and received a heter (dispensation) to...

Recently, I had occasion to quote the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Boxer,” which tells us that “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” The context...

Ever since I attended a performing arts summer program in Jerusalem 10 years ago, I’ve had my heart set on Aliyah. Having moved a few times as a kid, I used...

Torah in the City lectures will be uploaded to the OUTorah.org website over the next weeks. Photos available on the OU Facebook page. Credit: Meir Kruter The restaurants and conference halls...

A visit with Moishe Bane, incoming president of the Orthodox Union. Originally appeared in Ami Magazine, January 2017.