10 Things to Make the Morning and Day Happier

By Rabbi John Rosove
Published on May 12, 2013

Is Haman alive today? Purim & Happiness!

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Published on February 22, 2013

World’s Happiness Rate

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on January 10, 2013

Happiness Stinks

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 2, 2012

Love, Faith & Converting

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 12, 2012

Happiness is a moral obligation

By Dennis Prager
Published on May 15, 2012

Readers who think I am preoccupied with political issues may find it interesting to learn that I lecture on the subject of happiness more than any other single topic. And, every Friday for the past 12 years, I have devoted an hour of my radio show to this subject.

Judaism’s Value of Happiness: Living with Gratitude and Idealism

Published on March 9, 2012

The Closed Door Syndrome

By Samira Asemanfar
Published on November 14, 2011

Taking seven steps to ‘Sukkot happiness’

Published on October 5, 2011

But are you happy? No, this isn’t your mother wanting another update on your life.

Israel ranks seventh in happiness level, poll finds

Published on April 27, 2011

Israel ranked seventh worldwide in the happiness level of its residents, according to a survey conducted by the Gallup Institute.

What We’ve All Been Waiting For

By Misha Henckel
Published on July 27, 2010

Choosing Happiness

By Misha Henckel
Published on March 30, 2010

Settle down

By Amy Klein
Published on May 1, 2008

Lori Gottlieb isn't advocating marrying a man who repulses you or puts you to sleep every time he answers the question, "How was your day, dear?"

Leave the house

By Teresa Strasser
Published on February 28, 2008

So, hopefully, despite the fact that I'm not suffocatingly lonely or in a relationship laced with toxic levels of resentment, I still have a fertile patch of pain from which insights can grow, like that brilliant one I had earlier about leaving the house. What a relief.

Serenity now—inside and out

By Amy Klein
Published on December 6, 2007

Breathe.

Yes, take a breath.

"One, long deliberate breath that you feel from the very beginning of it until the end of it. Try it, really. You can do it with your eyes open. You can do it while reading these instructions. Do you notice that you can feel your body, and especially your chest expanding and relaxing to accommodate the air flowing in and out, without stopping reading?"

Hindu widows, remembering Marcy, Conservatives are dishy, Oh! Happy Day!

Published on September 27, 2007

Various Letters to the Editor regarding previously published stories

10 books about happiness

Published on September 13, 2007

List of 10 books about happiness.

12 thoughts on happiness for the 10 Days of Awe

Published on September 13, 2007

Thoughts on happiness.

Can happiness be taught?

By Amy Klein
Published on September 13, 2007

Anyway, what does it mean to be happy? Does it mean to experience constant pleasure? Bouts of joy? Moments of ecstasy? Does it mean to suffer no pain? Never be sad? Never struggle with challenges? Whatever it is, how does one get happy? It's a High Holy Days challenge if ever there were one, since if we all lived happier lives, wouldn't the world be a better place?

Silver screen love life

By Roni Blau
Published on February 22, 2007

The hardest challenge for me is staying open to possibilities and not shutting off my desires, even though they haven't yet come to fruition.

Is everyone weird?

By JoAnneh Nagler
Published on December 28, 2006

It's my opinion that none of us who are single at 40 are rocket scientists at love (or we wouldn't be so uncomfortably solitary in the first place), so drawing the weird requires a little seaside introspection, a new charting of the waves and a definite refocusing of the ship's trajectory.

War enhances intensity of Israel trip

By Daniela Bernstein
Published on October 5, 2006

The Eastern Europe-Israel Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Conservative movement's United Synagogue Youth.

Amy Klein’s bibliographical guide for the perplexed

Published on September 21, 2006

Bibliographical guide for the perplexed compiled by Amy Klein.

God Is Gray

By Rabbi Karen Deitsch
Published on June 15, 2006

Heaven, paradise -- choose a synonym: ecstasy, bliss, rapture. We use such words to describe experiences of perfect, supreme happiness, God on earth. The conditions on Sunday merited all such descriptions, especially that immaculately blue sky. Skies like that burn gloom away.

Singles - Walk Out the Door

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on May 18, 2006

Before I found my incredible guy, I was engaged to someone whom I went out with for two and half years -- probably two years too long. Of course, after we broke up, everyone I knew said that he was just "OK" and that I deserved someone better.

No Small Actors, Only Fake Parts

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 29, 2005

"Le Grand Role" has laughter, pathos, in-jokes, heartburn, self-caricature -- in other words, it's a really, really Jewish film, even though the characters insist on speaking French.

You Are Not Alone

By Rabbi Zoë Klein
Published on June 9, 2005

In Parshat Naso, we are introduced to the rituals concerning the sotah, a wife who is suspected of adultery.

When Sad Things Happen to Good Kids

By Gaby Friedman
Published on June 2, 2005

After taking his children to see a pleasant Disney cartoon, Dr. Rob Goldblatt thought there would some animated chatter about the film during the drive home.

Baker Finds Right Recipe for Success

By Gustavo Arellano
Published on July 1, 2004

At 3 a.m., when most Orange County residents are halfway through their slumber, Solomon Dueñas leaves Aliso Viejo and begins the 15-minute commute he's made nearly every morning since 1988.

Pariah or Trendy?

By Sandra Hurtes
Published on June 24, 2004

I was born into a world of one-size-fits-all lifestyles: either I'd marry and have children or be a subject of gossip and humiliation.

No Half Love!

By Adam Gilad
Published on March 11, 2004

"Love is a fine thing," the Yiddish saying goes, "but love with noodles is even tastier."

Exit Strategy

By Mark Miller
Published on May 29, 2003

I got to wondering why Amanda chose to dump me in such a cold fashion when what preceded it was 10 months of passion. And the only thing I could come up with was that Amanda chose to take the easy way out -- for her. She didn't want a confrontation, an argument or the pain of raw, exposed emotion; she simply left -- and left me holding the big, unopened Pandora's box of sudden loss.

Happiness Happens

By Rabbi Ron Shulman
Published on September 19, 2002

Behind every meaningful practice stands its theory. This Shabbat we begin Sukkot, our eight-day festival of booths and thanksgiving during which we celebrate the wandering and journey of our ancestors from slavery to freedom.

Unhappily Ever After?

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 18, 1999

Several weeks after I saw "Life is Beautiful", it occurred to me that, historically, overtly Jewish characters in cinema (all six of them...) seem perpetually shortchanged in relationships. Something always prevents a Jew from living "happily ever after." So where are our happy endings?