Inspiration 1710 articles

On the night of Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet, March 6, 2008, the Yashlatz Beit Midrash was being set up for the traditional Rosh Chodesh party. A few dozen of the most diligent students walked...

One of my conversion rabbis, Haskel Lookstein, recently made headlines for walking into a church. The timing strikes me as a little crazy because I can’t stop thinking about a certain...

Election time is here again. The great moment when we see democracy in action and the people – the ultimate sovereign – are able to choose leaders of the nation for...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Lynn Braddock welcoming you to this season’s very last NFL Weekly Review on ESPN! Here with me today is Jerry Rice, 13 time pro-bowler,...

It was a dream game from a spectator’s perspective. Super Bowl XLIII, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, was close, so close that fans were sitting on the edge...

Eleven days ago today, Israel terminated an operation after having reached a state of cease-fire with a cowardly and murderous foe. We pulled out of Gaza. I pulled out of Gaza....

We made aliyah only a little more than a year ago. And tomorrow our son comes home from his first war. As my husband and I had served in the US...

I have a friend, an underground playwright, who hates Obama. He’s convinced that, six months after Inauguration, nobody’s going to notice anything different from the past eight years of George W....

It started as everyone’s worst nightmare. At 3:26 pm on Thursday, Jan. 15, US Airways Flight 1549 took off from Laguardia airport, bound for Charlotte, N. C. One minute later, when...

In the midst of the current financial crisis, we hear constantly about the “cycle” and where we are in the cycle. The frightening aspect to this crisis is that we don’t...