Our Holiday, Our Land
How do you describe the simple pleasure of celebrating Chanukah in a place where everyone is also rushing home to light their menorah? Our holiday, our land…
Natalie Kovan
Natalie Kovan
The Olden Days
If there is one thing that living in Eretz Yisrael has taught me, it’s that there is no longer any need to upgrade, once you have finally upgraded by living here...
Cheesy Love
So many people begin relationships by waiting for the fireworks, and they want a soundtrack to go with it. They want their relationship to resemble a Hollywood movie...
Opportunity Knocks
It's not the amount that we give to the poor person, it's the way we give; the few coins we give him won't solve his problems, but our smile might save his life...
Unity
Three boys: one carries a rifle, one learns algebra, and the third carries a Gemara in his hand. All raised in the same house by the same parents, yet so vastly different...
All My Helpers
Here's a hearty round of applause for Moms, for it's mindboggling what they do. Don't take her for granted, Dad, because you might get a week's "vacation" at home...
Measuring Up
Do we often measure our lives against what others have or don't have? Are we like preschoolers who whine and complain to Hashem at the unfairness of it all?
Guide to Spiritual Cleaning
We all must clean our homes for Passover, but whether it becomes a pleasure or a pain depends on how we understand what and why we are really cleaning...
The Wagon Master
Many are the BTs who lament that their early education included Shakespeare and Plato rather than Abaye and Rava; those same BTs often outshine the Talmud scholars...
A Stuck Soul
A stuck soul has a hard time being grateful, deriving pleasure from just being. A stuck soul gets mired in the mud of self defeat and negative thoughts...
Mouser Money
A mouse in a Jewish mother's kosher kitchen? It's amazing how one of Hashem's tiny messengers can bring about such a change in an entire family...
Wannabe or Maccabee?
The Maccabee's entire struggle was a fight to remain what they were—Jews, dedicated to HaShem, His Torah and His Land. And now, we find ourselves with a similar script...