Authors and Contributors

David Olivestone

David Olivestone, director of communications and marketing at the Orthodox Union, contributed several biographies of famous hazzanim to the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He can be reached at davido@ou.org.

JEWISH CULTURE

Standing Room Only: The Remarkable Career of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt

This article originally appeared in the fall 2003 issue of Jewish Action In an obituary for Cantor Josef Rosenblatt, whose seventieth yahrtzeit was observed this year, The New York Times…

HISTORY

Lights of Redemption

Once Buried in Warsaw, These Menorot Are Now on Display in Jerusalem In May of 1943, SS General Jürgen Stroop triumphantly blew up the huge synagogue building that stood on…

REVIEWS

Listening to God: Inspirational Stories for My Grandchildren

Listening to God: Inspirational Stories for My Grandchildren By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Maggid Books Jerusalem, 2010 445 pages Reviewed by David Olivestone   When I moved to the Upper West…

PEOPLE

Inside the Mind of A Chazzan: A Conversation with Cantor Joseph Malovany

Every year, as the chazzan starts the first few notes of the special Kaddish for the Yamim Noraim on the first night of Selichot, the mood of Rosh Hashanah inevitably…

INSIDE THE OU

The OU Takes On Another Face

It was just eighty years ago that the familiar Orthodox Union (OU) logo was created to be placed on the labels of twenty-six Heinz products, among the first to be…

OPINION

The Sound of My Thoughts

I often hear people talk about the awakening power of the sound of the shofar—how awesome a moment, how inspiring an experience it is for them. From the perspective of…

ROSH HASHANAH

How to Buy a Shofar

If you don’t already own a shofar, it’s better to first learn how to blow on a borrowed shofar before buying one. When you do go to the store, you…