JA Staff

INSPIRATION

Gifts My Mother Gave Me: A Tribute to the Jewish Mother

In the essays that follow, we pay tribute to the powerful and enduring influence of our mothers.

LETTERS

Letters – Fall 2018

High Cost of Burial As a rabbi, I truly appreciated Rabbi Akiva Males’ article entitled “What’s In Your Anti-Cremation Toolkit?” (summer 2018). However, I believe there is one main issue…

INSIDE THE OU

JA Wins Rockower Award for 8th Year Running!

At the American Jewish Press Association Conference, held last week, Jewish Action won a Simon Rockower Award for a feature story entitled “The Contemporary Rebbetzin.” The article, which won First Place…

HISTORY

Paving the Way for Women’s Leadership: The OU Women’s Branch

When American Orthodoxy was in its infancy, well before the day school movement, the idealistic, energetic women of the OU Women’s Branch persevered to build and strengthen religious life amidst…

JEWISH LIVING

The How-To Issue

Even amid routine practices, on occasion we find ourselves acting by rote, lacking a freshness in our spiritual lives.

JEWISH LIVING

How to Prepare a Devar Torah

The best way to identify a good topic is to select something you would want to hear about. Simply ask yourself, “What topic would I like to hear discussed and…

JEWISH LIVING

How to Complete Tanach—and Know It

The main thing is just to start and not be worried about understanding and retaining everything the first time around. The more you learn the more you’ll understand and remember…

JEWISH LIVING

How to Daven

When you speak to someone on the telephone, for instance, you may not know what the individual looks like but you can certainly speak with him. So why can’t you…