The cab driver had a shaved head and a scorpion tattooed on his neck. In his right ear, he sported a diamond-stud earring. He certainly wasn't from my part of the country… A true story of brotherly love and teshuva
Nissim "Damian" Black grew up on the tough side of the street in South Seattle. His music used to be just as violent as his neighborhood, but he's brought it all into Judaism…
When something happens in our life that renders us vulnerable and helpless, we are most likely to look deeply inside ourselves and make fundamental changes. This change is our own personal Exodus. Read David’s recent experience after a car accident. Don’t wait until you’re 50 to break free!
How can a woman get to the point where she is willing to cover her hair? She faces such opposition from within and without. Read the true story of one woman’s amazing journey.
Read the beautiful story of the Murray's spiritual journey from being youth leaders in a Christian church to choosing Torah and Judaism. Read of their challenges, joys, and eventual fulfillment in becoming their true selves. [At end is a video clip interview with Rabbi Tovia Singer.]
Sometimes, in order to fulfill your wildest dreams, you have to ditch some dreams that really weren’t meant for you along the way. Clearly, G-d knew better…
Back in the nineties, when ‘supermodels' were just starting to be highly paid celebrities, Israeli-born Avichai Cohen appeared to have it made. Read Avichai's amazing journey of teshuvah...
Life's challenges sometimes may make us think Hashem has abandoned us. Instead, we should recognize that they're a call from Above to return to our loving Father in Heaven…
The G-d I had known was exacting. The new G-d was forgiving... A true story of how a child filled with shame grows to an adult who is certain of Hashem's love.
DG is doing time in a Texas prison for a violent crime. He found himself in a kill or be-killed situation, for it's not easy to be a Jewish boy in an environment like that…
Hashem gives us the time and space to see our mitzvot as a merits and not as a burden. He sees that we want to move forward, but we're having difficulties and doubts. Don't hide those difficulties and doubts behind a "religious" veneer.
We ate matzot on Passover and bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches on Shabbat. Accentuating our similarities with general Santa Barbara society was our family's major objective...
Individuality is a gift, not a liability. The more we can learn to accept it, the faster our shortcomings become opportunities and the darkness in our lives become light…
I felt contrite, worried, apprehensive, nervous, anxious, unclear, and unbalanced. I started to cry, pleading with Hashem to forgive me for turning on the light…
She was a popular teenager with plenty of boys asked her out on dates. But, for some strange reason, something always came up to postpone the Friday night date…
My worries were piling up: being physically disabled, being unable to continue my job as a trainer, or even death, I realized that the Lymes was nothing more than a message…
My worries were piling up: being physically disabled, being unable to continue my job as a trainer, even death; I realized that I still had a lot of fear to overcome…
Sometimes, our lowest points in life and our greatest setbacks are simply preparing the way for a new life of happiness, success and fulfillment...