Jinspire

[Music] project Inspire was created to motivate J Inspire was created to activate providing exciting Outreach opportunities for the from Community Innovative programs bringing from and nonf from together lunch and learns by day and dynamic Speakers by Night hundreds learning in our onetoone Kusa program with a thought-provoking curriculum enhanced by social programming our breakthrough initiative in collaboration with Jewish women's Renaissance program offering a trip to Israel for Less observant mothers a Birthright for moms starting with 15 moms from Tek in 2011 we've grown to eight branches in Brooklyn Queens Long Island Rockland County Manhattan to se and Toronto bringing 65 Ms in 2011 and growing rapidly to a projected total of 400 participants in 2014 including 65 dads our late leader a late project inspired people started manyi cure of Outreach centers in these areas where there really was either no existing program or were very little when you get involved this way and see others grow in such a profound way it impacts you and it changes you and that's the power of this program honestly it has made me appreciate so much more what I have and I think it's help my children appreciate it even more I didn't think I had the answers but then I realized that I really know more more than I thought I know just from living it the city leaders I I have to tell you I love them I I love talking to them I love learning from them I love sharing experiences is that it's our J Inspire sisters and friends that have genuine discussions with us I think it's about bring bringing more meaning to my life I didn't understand a relationship with God and now I have an ongoing conversation with Hashem since I go back uh from my trip I I have a Learning Partner we've been learning over the phone once a week for I guess this been two years my first uh full shabas um I since that time I'm keeping shabas I've been invited around the community for shabas nicest family I believe that my journey is really only going in One Direction and that's to become more observant I I think it really is heading in that direction I'm no longer an outsider I'm not an outsider the message that I think I want to give to people who maybe listening is please don't be afraid because you know what it's really not hard I I I'm so upset at myself I didn't try this years ago there's a lot more people like me out there that would love to learn from you love to understand what you're about so we may not have community centers but we have communities built up of people reaching out caring one at a time one at a time one at a time one at a time all the Jewish people come home [Music]