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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