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Joining the Ranks of Jewish History

These days, instead of strengthening Torah learning and observance, rabbis need to spend much time and effort on security matters. Can we draw any chizuk from the current situation?

Letters – Fall 2024

Rabbis of the IDF, Feedback from a Miluima, Modesty and Marketing, Recognizing Your Value, Reciting Kaddish for Soldiers

Kosher Conundrums: Answers to kashrus questions you never thought to ask

Can you pronounce "Worcestershire sauce"—and why is it labeled OU-Fish anyway?

Rosh Hashanah: Let There Be Light

The following essay is excerpted from "Festivals of Faith: Reflections on the Jewish Holidays" by Rabbi Norman Lamm, edited by Dr. David Shatz and Rabbi Simon Posner (OU Press/Ktav, 2011).…

Ahavat Yisrael: A Grave Matter

  While hiking in the fall of 2008, a member of Temple Beth Jacob, a Reform synagogue in Newburgh, New York, discovered several headstones with Hebrew inscriptions on a steep,…

My Response to October 7

I No Longer Believe By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman I have never recovered from that traumatic day, Simchat Torah in Israel—October 7, 2023. That day that will haunt me for…

Jews of Arab Countries: The Loss of Ancestral Inheritance

Jews have lived in what are now Arab countries for more than three thousand years, long before the Arab conquests that began in the seventh century. In 1948, there were…

Religion on the Battlefield

Seeking halachic guidance in a time of war