Recently I shared that I started a new position as a writer with Israel365.
While we are an Orthodox Jewish organization, many of our supporters are Christian. It’s a unique niche that fits perfectly with my background.
I’ve been working as a religion journalist and writer since I finished grad school in 2001, and seven months ago I made Aliyah (moved to Israel) with my family.
I grew up secular in America with minimal connection to Judaism. My best friends were Christian, and pretty much everyone in my family intermarried.
For years I searched, trying to feed my neshama with the authenticity and spirituality I craved. Then 16 years ago I discovered what I was looking for—my own religion.
I dove into Torah and religious Jewish life with passion and intensity. And my connection to and interest in people of other faiths remained, personally and professionally.
During my career I received a national journalism award for religion writing in the secular media. I also continue to share my own spiritual and religious journey as a columnist, and I am finishing a book about it.
That I’m actually in Israel now and doing this work is surreal. While most of the time I work remotely, each week I take the train from the north where I live to their office in Bet Shemesh.
Life has not been easy. I’ve lost a baby and struggled with miscarriage, postpartum depression, and other challenges. But I always try to come back to G-d, to Torah, and using my writing to inspire myself and others.
As Rav Yisroel Salanter would say, “If even one person is affected by your words, that is a success, and if that one person is you, that is a miracle.”
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Shavua Tov (good week), from holy, beautiful Israel! 🇮🇱
“A land which God cares for; the eyes of God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.” – Devarim 11:12
Mindy Morasha 