page_title: Esther Jungreis
section_title: Writings
hierarchical_section_title: Esther Jungreis / Writings
caption_attribution_description: English: Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis with April Foley, United States Ambassador to Hungary
context_page_description: Esther Jungreis was a Hungarian-born American religious leader. She was the founder of the international Hineni movement in the United States. A Holocaust survivor, she worked to bring Jews to Orthodox Judaism.
  A preview of her 4th book said "She asks her listeners to pause and consider who they are and why we are here."
context_section_description: Jungreis wrote four books: Jewish Soul on Fire (William Morrow & Company – acclaimed as one of the ten best Jewish books of the year by B'nai B'rith); The Committed Life: Principles of Good Living from Our Timeless Past (Harper Collins, translated into Hebrew, Russian and Hungarian and in its eighth edition) and The Committed Marriage (Harper Collins). Her last book, published in 2006, was Life Is a Test.
  For more than forty years, she wrote a column for The Jewish Press using the Torah as the source for solutions to everyday problems.
  A step-by-step family-based example of the power of her writings and Hineni is that of Roy S. Neuberger's family: the Rebbetzin's Jewish Press column led to the Neuberger's Aliya in 1974, a year after Hineni's founding, and then she 
  "convinced them to move to her community in Long Island." Subsequently "their
  daughter Yaffa married Rebbetzin Jungreis's son, Rabbi Osher Anschel."
caption: Esther Jungreis (left) with April Foley, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary. Budapest, September 15, 2008.
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