Author: Bernard Lander

I have attended almost thirty OU biennial conventions over the past sixty-five years but none, in retrospect, was as significant as the Thanksgiving weekend of 1954 when two hundred delegates gathered in Atlantic City. It was not an easy time to speak of an Orthodox Jewish future in North America. Changing demographics, the rush to […]

One might think that Shabbat, the ultimate twenty-four-hour downtime, couldn’t possibly compete with most Jewish teens’ high-tech weekday fare of TV, movies, computers, cell phones, MP3s, DVDs and video games. Think again. Recently, as part of “Friday Night Lights” (FNL), one of NCSY’s latest outreach projects, a group of college students from Yeshiva University (YU), […]