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Help Us Celebrate 40 Years of Jewish Action
Dear Reader, Forty years is a long time for a magazine. Long enough for the world to change several times over. Long enough for articles written in the eighties…
Voices of Valor
Almost two years after October 7, these women are continuing to raise their voices—writing, speaking, standing strong and making sure the world listens.
New from OU Press – Summer 2025
The Eternal Conversation By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Letters – Summer 2025
A Senator Remembers Joe Lieberman, Seeing Mezuzot Everywhere You Go, What Not-Yet-Religious Jews Really Want, A Key Ingredient to Success in Outreach, Avoiding Mixed Messages, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet’s Teaching Career,…
Leaving the Fold: The OU’s new study provides insight into attrition
The study aims to develop a more robust and wide-ranging understanding of the different ways and reasons people leave Orthodoxy.
The Role of the Rabbi
What the study reveals about relationships with religious figures
“It’s not all or nothing”
. . . the experience of leaving [the community] is not binary. Very often, connections remain that are real, important and personal and shape people’s lives.