Inspiration 1711 articles

A terribly disturbing scandal occurred this week that generated varying reactions. A number of celebrities who saved highly personal pictures in a storage cloud were hacked and their revealing pictures were...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Though not as well-known as other Nazi centers of death, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg held political prisoners from 1936 until the end...

This article originally appeared on finkorswim.com. The most common question I was asked after The Summit last spring was if I learned anything particularly insightful into the Orthodox Jewish experience to...

  Summer is over. Ok, not truly officially over but rather in a school has started, pools are closed and High Holiday items are showing up in grocery aisles kind of...

Hundreds filled the streets of Los Angeles on August 24 for a double Torah dedication by Lee Samson and his family in memory of his late wife Anne a”h. The dedication...

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue, joined OU Senior Managing Director Rabbi Steven Weil and other members of a rabbinic delegation in Israel this week on a solidarity...

My colleague, Rivki Rosenblatt (OU Press) and I recently returned from staffing OU Alumni’s ten-day trip to Germany through an organization called Germany Close Up (GCU). GCU was founded by Dr....

Before serving as Torah educators, role models and community organizers on college campuses across the United States as staff of the OU’s Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) program, three...

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed: how many will pass from the earth, and how many will be born. Who will live, and who...

This article originally appeared on Finkorswim.com. For a few hours on Tuesday, the Jewish world’s attention was focused on a missing IDF soldier. David Menachem Gordon was reported as missing and...