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Letters – Fall 2025

Taking a Stand Against Phones in Schools, Remembering Tobie and Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Dealing with Dementia, The Human Side of the Disengagement, The Great Z’manim Debate: Rabbi Ahron Notis Responds

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.