Want a Truly Happy Marriage? Dare to Disagree by Rabbi YY Jacobson
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a Jewish take on the essential role of disagreement in marriage. Giving in for the sake of peace is like using a credit card. Sometimes you need to be mevater. But when you suppress your opinions and preferences too much for the sake of “peace,” you are likely to […]
Read More6 Steps I’m Taking to a Happier Adar
Following an unthinkable tragedy, the Lubavitcher Rebbe instructed his Chassidim how to feel joy under any circumstances.
Read MoreA Struggling Teenage Boy and Shema Yisrael
Today my friend Ilana was telling me about her teenage son who has a lot of issues at school and at home. Ilana and her husband have been trying to work with him, to help their son, for years. And it’s very tempting, she told me, after all these years, to just throw in the […]
Read MoreOne Family Terror Victims with Yishai Rivo and Nathan Goshen
When terror strikes, most of us feel shock, sadness, anger, and then move on. Forget. That is what I find so awe-inspiring about One Family. When we regular folks forget and move onto the next news headline, One Family’s volunteers get to work, providing a caring, supportive ongoing community for those left to suffer the […]
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Words that Saved a Life by Rabbi YY Jacobson
Many kids and their parents believe that because they’re failing school they will fail in life as well. But so many of these kids, like the boy in this story, have tons of energy and considerable strengths which, while not well suited for the classroom, will take them very far in life. Like the elderly […]
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