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Shabbos Is More Than One Day a Week

How to Take Shabbos into the Week It is not my intent to address the issue of Orthodox teens at…

INSPIRATION

Scoring for God: The Spiritual Journey of Former Basketball Star Doron Sheffer

Grasping a basketball in his enormous hands, Doron Sheffer looks slim and nimble enough to hit the court again as…

INSPIRATION

On My Own

Is It Possible to Raise Healthy, Well-Balanced Torah-Observant Children as A Single Parent?

INSPIRATION

Up Close with Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich’s tenacious struggle to keep Torah in Communist Russia is documented in his book Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic…

INSPIRATION

What Does God Want of Me Now? Rabbi Yehuda Simes’ Courageous Journey

On the night of June 20th, 2010, a horrific car accident left Rabbi Yehuda Simes paralyzed from the neck down.…

INSPIRATION

A Synagogue Full of Prayers

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, famed defender of the Jewish people, was visiting a town. Approaching the community’s synagogue for…

FAITH

Feeling the Hand of God

On March 21, 2002, a suicide bombing on Rechov King George in Jerusalem killed three people and injured eighty-seven. Though…

INSPIRATION

Healing a Wounded Covenant: Children of Holocaust Survivors Reclaim their Heritage

Children born in the post-Holocaust era of the 1940s, 50s and 60s grew up knowing their parents had gone through…

INSPIRATION

Lessons from the Team That Wouldn’t Play on Shabbat

Visiting Houston a few months ago, at the start of the high school basketball season, I spent some time at…

INSPIRATION

Fighting for Sandy: A Woman’s Struggle to Give Her Sister a Jewish Burial

On Shabbat Chanukah of 2006, my older sister Sandy passed away. Raised a secular Jew, she had arranged to have…

INSPIRATION

Feeling is Believing: Shabbat Shines for Jewish Deafblind

With canes in their hands and anticipation on their faces, a number of men and women made their way to…

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