Discovering My Children
This is the candid and amazingly probing confession of a high-powered career woman who came to Israel and completely revamped her priorities in life...
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Quicksand of Despair
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. The Chazon Ish told her...
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From Rose Bowl to Rashi
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.]
Ditch Your Dreams
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…
Supermodel
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...
From the Pits
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…
My Burning Bush Moment
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
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…
A Blessing in Disguise
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…
Setting the Stage
Sometimes, our lowest points in life and our greatest setbacks are simply preparing the way for a new life of happiness, success and fulfillment...
My Brother
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…
The Tougher League
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..
The Cheeseburger Sacrifice
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 in Vizhnitz-land
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…
Ask a Breslever
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…
From Riches to Righteous
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…
My Father’s Faith
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...
Measuring Up
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...