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Molly Resnick

Molly Resnick, a former NBC TV News producer, is a popular international lecturer and motivational speaker. She can be reached at mollymres@gmail.com.

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Should We Leave America? An Interview with Activist Shifra Hoffman

By Molly Resnick

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

Op-Eds / In Print

Reward And… Consequence?

By Molly Resnick

So we’re not doing our children any favors by sugar-coating Judaism or shielding them from its more “harsh” elements. Hashem is a loving father, but He also expects us to behave in a certain way. If we don’t, there will be consequences – and those consequences are punishments.

In Print / Interviews and Profiles

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis: Daring To Care: An Interview With Her Daughter, Rebbetzin Slovie Jungreis-Wolff

By Molly Resnick

My mother believed in the pinteleh Yid that exists in every Jew. And she would never ever, ever allow herself, or anyone else, to give up hope on any neshamah.

Featured / Interviews and Profiles

Should We Leave America? An Interview with Activist Shifra Hoffman

By Molly Resnick

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

Interviews and Profiles

Morocco, Italy, & Beyond: The Vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – On His 25th Yahrzeit

By Molly Resnick

Year the first shliach went out: 1950 – to Casablanca, Morocco. Year the last shliach went out: 2019. Two recent ones went to Purdue University and Takayama, Japan.

Interviews and Profiles

Should We Leave America? An Interview with Activist Shifra Hoffman

By Molly Resnick

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

Op-Eds

Morality Can Be A Kid-Led Campaign

By Molly Resnick

The Rebbe’s campaign – revived by Rabbi Goldstein in the wake of the horrible shooting at his shul – deserves our support. And what better avenue to turn to than our children, the guarantors of our heritage.

Interviews and Profiles

Marriage - An Underappreciated Institution: An Interview with Rabbi Shaya Ostrov

By Molly Resnick

We always are smiling. But because of our life experiences, we lose contact with the innocent beautiful child within us that is connected to Hashem 24/7.

Interviews and Profiles

'My Aim Is To Unlock Minds, Not To Win Arguments': An Interview with Renowned Lecturer Rabbi YY Jacobson

By Molly Resnick

I learn a lot and read a lot. When I come across an e-mail, a story, an insight that is transformative, I try to internalize it. I think it's all out there. One just has to notice it.

Interviews and Profiles

Can Israel Annex The West Bank? An Interview with Women In Green Co-Founder Nadia Matar

By Molly Resnick

My parents saw how miserable I was in chutz la'aretz, so they finally gave me their beracha to move to Eretz Yisrael.

Interviews and Profiles

On Mike Tress, The 'Amazon Generation,' And Shidduch Coaching: An Interview with Rabbi Paysach Krohn

By Molly Resnick

I really believe many people need shidduch coaching. One shidduch coach told me, “There are many people who are passing up good opportunities for bad reasons.”

Interviews and Profiles

On Menorahs, Yarmulkes, And Circumcision Bans: An Interview With Famed Attorney Nathan Lewin

By Molly Resnick

This is the best Supreme Court the Orthodox Jewish community can have because there are two basic constitutional decisions that [can now] be overruled that are of major import to the Orthodox Jewish community.

Op-Eds

Self-Love – Why We Don’t Need More Of It

By Molly Resnick

We feel dissatisfied, depressed, or despondent. We then openly display our frustration and malaise to those near and dear to us despite the great discomfort it causes them. What is regarded as self-loathing is therefore usually nothing but self-love in disguise.

Interviews and Profiles

In The Shadow Of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: An Interview with Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel

By Molly Resnick

I’m not the Rebbe, and anything from the Rebbe we don’t explain. The main theory is that my father had just gone through a very hard time, and perhaps the Rebbe wanted to give him a new beginning.

Interviews and Profiles

The Jewish Boy Who Trained With Palestinian Guerillas: An Interview with a Radical 1960s Revolutionary

By Molly Resnick

I remember in first grade a kid called me a dirty Jew and punched me in the mouth. When I got home, my mother said, “You know what your problem is? You didn’t defend your people. When somebody calls you a dirty Jew, you make ‘em pay for it.”

Interviews and Profiles

Hijack Plane, Escape To Israel: An Interview with Filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov

By Molly Resnick

Had the Soviets only given them a one- or two-year prison sentence, I don’t think the world response would’ve been that big.

Interviews and Profiles

PragerU Takes On Tech Censorship: An Interview with Radio Talk Show Host Dennis Prager

By Molly Resnick

Facebook claimed PragerU’s videos were deleted or blocked by mistake and apologized. But Prager has faced tech censorship before. YouTube, for example. After reading the article, whom do you believe?

Interviews and Profiles

Daughter Of A Schneerson, Wife Of A Carlebach: An Interview with Mrs. Hadassa Carlebach

By Molly Resnick

Did you know that Shlomo Carlebach had a twin brother, Eli Chaim? And that this brother was married to Hadassah, a scion of the Lubavitch Schneerson family? Read this engaging interview with this nonagenarian, Hadassah Carlebach

Interviews and Profiles

This Remarkable Woman Stood Up To Feminism – And Won: An Interview with Andrew Schlafly, Son of Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly

By Molly Resnick

Schlafly organized a grassroots movement against the ERA, arguing that it would harm women, not help them. She was right.

Interviews and Profiles

There’s Hardly Any Anti-Semitism In Russia – Thanks To Putin? - An Interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia

By Molly Resnick

It’s very much in style and cool to be Jewish in Russia today. In the past, people were afraid to let others know they were Jewish; today, they are very proud – and many non-Jews want to be part of it too.

Interviews and Profiles

Meeting The Likes Of Putin, Assad, And Reagan – For 32 Years: An Interview With Public Servant Extraordinaire Malcolm Hoenlein

By Molly Resnick

Serving as President for 32 years, Malcolm Hoenlein has served longer than 6 White House administrations, has met each of those Presidents and most every world leader. Enjoy this unique interview with a third of a century of Jewish leadership

Interviews and Profiles

‘There Are Jews In China?’ - An Interview with Chabad Shlucha Dina Greenberg

By Molly Resnick

Lubavitch shluchim move to all sorts of exotic places in their effort to ignite Jewish souls around the globe. But there’s exotic, and then there’s very exotic. Shanghai, China, can safely be said to fall into the latter category. To learn what it’s like teaching Judaism in the most populous city in the world (24 […]

Holidays

Shall We Continue To Weep And Fast? Or Shall We Fight the Times?

By Molly Resnick

‘What can a person do against the trend of the times!’” A question in every generation. Compromise at home is good; compromise in Torah is not. Knowing the difference will bring the final ge’ulah.

Interviews and Profiles

Special to The Jewish Press: An Interview With “Ambassador Friedman’s Rabbi”

By Molly Resnick

Let me start by saying that I never endorse politicians. Am I surprised? No! Because Trump is not your typical individual.

Op-Eds

What FFBs Don’t Get About Us Ba’alei Teshuvah

By Molly Resnick

As a ba’al teshuvah myself, I sense this young firebrand not only can handle suggestions for improvement but would gladly welcome them.

Op-Eds

Rubashkin Never Sat In Prison

By Molly Resnick

The choice is ours. We can live in “prison” – a galus of our own making – or we can choose to be free. In a few days, we will be celebrating Pesach and Yetziat Mitzrayim. The letters of Mitzrayim (Egypt) and meitzarim (constraints) are the same. Pesach is an opportunity to break free from bondage and constraints.

From the Paper / Op-Eds

It’s Not Too Many Guns, It’s Too Few Prayers

By Molly Resnick

“Guns didn’t suddenly decide to visit mayhem on schools. Guns can’t decide.” But people can. And it’s the people who have changed. It is not guns that kill. It’s the minds of children and adults deprived of Godliness that kill.

Op-Eds

Remembering What America and Judaism Are All About

By Molly Resnick

Hellenism captured the imagination and hearts not only of the Greeks but of the majority of Jews in ancient Judea.

Op-Eds

Reinstating God In Northern California

By Molly Resnick

The motto “In God We Trust” is emblazoned on our currency and in courtrooms across America. And yet it seems we’re trusting less and less in God these days. With each passing year, secularists and sophisticated intellectuals manage to kick Him out just a little more from the public square.

Features

‘Accidental’ Mitzvahs

By Molly Resnick

Two weeks ago I found myself at the International Conference of Chabad Shluchos in Crown Heights running a program together with my friend Rivka Kotlarsky for 120 Guests of Shluchos – many of them not yet especially observant.

Op-Eds

Miracles In Moscow

By Molly Resnick

“If you put Google, Apple, and Microsoft together, it still doesn’t compare to the miracles of Jewish renaissance I have witnessed in this country,” I said to two reporters from The New York Times and Moscow Times.

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