Inspiration 1711 articles

I went to visit the family of Zidan Saif today. (Editor’s note: For those who do not know Zidan Saif was the Druze police officer who was the first responder on...

Bill Cosby is in serious trouble. Rape allegations have dogged him for years and they’ve finally caught up with him. The last few times such allegations popped up, they quickly went...

Will we make a difference in someone’s life this Thanksgiving weekend? Beyond the football, the turkey, family and friends, will we take the time to make someone’s day? You may have...

In early March, my husband Ben and I welcomed our first baby—a daughter we named Hadassah, born at the beginning of her 35th week of gestation. With an otherwise healthy pregnancy...

This article originally appeared on rabbisblog.brsonline.org Many of our young men and women of marriageable age assume that when a couple decides it is time to start a family, it is...

Everyone knows we’re not allowed to kill, right? After all, it’s one of the “Big Ten” commandments. Not exactly. What we’re not allowed to do is murder. Sometimes we actually have...

Eighty percent of our emunah problems and ninety percent of our questions on Hashem stem from one mistake—we play God. Playing God means I know exactly what I need. I need...

The horrific attack in Har Nof made this a most difficult week in Israel, and for Jews around the world. Conventional wisdom has it that no two humans are separated by...

We heard the ambulances. We heard there was a terrorist attack. Then we heard it was at our shul down the road. We got a phone call from Chaya Levine asking...

Dear Friends, Yesterday at about 7am my daughter Miri called. “Mordechai just came home from shul. He said that Arabs came in and are shooting, and that a man with an...