The Murrays tell the beautiful story of their spiritual journey from being youth leaders in a Christian church to choosing Torah and Judaism. Read of their challenges, frustrations, joys, and eventual fulfillment in becoming their true selves.
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 massively-paid celebrities in their own right, Israeli-born Avichai Cohen appeared to have it made...
I had dipped in and out of self-pity that I was 35 years old and not married yet. However, after hearing Rabbi Arush speak that night in Las Vegas, my life changed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Baseball fans sigh with relief that Yom Kippur is early this year, so they won't miss the World Series. One ballplayer learned about teshuva from his rise to the Major League..
He loved Judaism but he couldn't give up the cheeseburgers. Why were the Torah and the rabbis so fanatic to deny him the one pleasure that he craved?
Vicki had never been to Israel. Yet, she describe in detail her taxi trip from Ben Gurion Airport to Bnai Brak, to the Vizhnitzer synagogue and to the Rebbe…
A young man who didn't have much of an idea about G-d, Torah and Judaism was searching for some answers. He visited one of Ashdod's religious neighborhoods…
The Japanese rockstar-supermodel-richboy's spiritual journey to Orthodox Judaism brought his Israeli girlfriend to the world of teshuva and miracles, even an earthquake…
After the death of my grandfather, there was a slow decline in the family's religious observance. All the brothers became businessmen and eventually chose secular lifestyles...
The young lady came from a religious home but had served in the army and had transgressed grave sins. She was so depressed that she was ready to commit suicide...
She observed other religious women and read books about the righteous. Thanks to her evil inclination, she created a list of should's that she used to torture herself daily...
The Chief Executive Officer of a large corporation is not only a woman, but a baalat teshuva as well. What's more, as tough as it is in the corporate world, she covers her hair...