Yehudah Fine

When I surfaced from the dark world of Times Square and the night...

It's not the size of the step that matters, but that you take it. Things happen. It's what we do when they happen that's key.

A teen can be in serious trouble and all thats needed to turn things around is one person who cares.

Even from the black depths of pain and despair, life can hand out valuable lessons ...

Spring is always a welcome sight in New York. The daffodils break ground early,...

My congratulations, especially to the parents, grandparents, families, and friends who have worked so hard to prepare this graduating class. Congratulations...

Even from the black depths of pain and despair, life can hand out valuable lessons in compassion, wisdom and love.

Opening Plenary Breakfast Keynote Sustaining the Vision of the Jewish Community: JFS’s Challenge to Bring Healing, Hope and Commitment Guest…

It's a road map to redemption, via medieval Egypt and the rough back streets of New York....

The key to working with any spiritual practice is not to practice it...

Issues of forgiveness continuously echo in the background of nearly everyone's lives. No one prefers ...

True spiritual desire or yearning can indeed open us up to new ways of seeing and being...

The seeds of positive growth or benign neglect of teens are nurtured in the family environment.

The Hazelden Foundation recently sold the movie rights for its 1997 bestseller Times Square Rabbi...

For over a decade until five years ago, Rabbi Yehudah Fine raomed the seamy fringe society of the docks, bus stations...

15 Hope Contemplations

A powerful guide to finding meaning and Hope is found within the writings of the twelfth Century luminary Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, best known as Maimonides or the Rambam. Before jumping straight to The Eight Steps there are a few things that need to be explained.

Hope gives us the strength to develop a peaceful optimism towards life...

This is a real book about real people.It is a story about a Brooklyn rabbi, clad in sneakers and a Yankees baseball cap, who travels the bowels of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx looking for kids, good kids really...

His synagogue has no walls. The ceiling is the neon sky. The floor is human misery. That's the temple of the "Times Square Rabbi."

Prostitution, drug-dealing, all-night raves. Plenty of Jewish kids lose their way in the seamy side of Manhattan's streets.