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EDUCATION

Up Close with Bracha Goetz

A Harvard graduate who just came out with her thirty-third book discusses her decades-long career as a writer of Jewish…

PEOPLE

Remembering Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, zt”l

David Olivestone, former senior communications officer of the OU, and Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, OU executive vice president, emeritus, remember Ben…

PEOPLE

Ben Zion Shenker: The Unsung Composer of the Songs We All Sing

By David Olivestone This past November, on the Friday evening of the week in which Ben Zion Shenker, z”l, passed…

PEOPLE

Personal Memories of A Modern-Day Sweet Singer of Israel

He unfailingly attached his melodies to appropriate texts, and displayed an uncanny ability to instill in those texts new spiritual…

FAITH

From West Lafayette to Jerusalem: Revisiting Indiana’s Orthodox Simons

One day this winter Ronit Comrov will make dozens of latkes, and sufganiyot, “just raspberry,” for her friends in Milwaukee.…

PEOPLE

Remembering Rav Yehuda Cooperman

In truth, sometimes when I was with him and began to consider all of his accomplishments, I felt as if…

PEOPLE

Fifty Years of Neshama: Cantor Sherwood Goffin

Then Sherwood came in and he was different. “His voice was simple and pure, but what really got all of…

ALIYAH

Giving & Getting: Volunteering in Israel

More and more retirees are deciding to make Israel their home and spend their days giving back to the country…

PEOPLE

Ben Zion Shenker z”l: The Music Fades with the Loss of a Friend

Our nation has been able to slowly begin to recover from the trauma of the Holocaust partly because of the…

HEALTH

Walking With Them in Their Suffering: An Orthodox Woman Chaplain Helps Patients On Their Journeys

While Heda is one of a few Orthodox women to be board certified as a chaplain, she believes that chaplaincy…

PEOPLE

Remembering Rabbi Belsky, zt”l

Poignant recollections of the OU Kosher posek for nearly three decades, composed by Rabbi Belsky’s colleagues and friends at the…

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