Like most of my friends, I remember my senior year of high school as both an exciting and a stressful time. Whereas previously my biggest…
Fall 1999(5760)
The Yom Kippur War: An American Volunteer Remembers
The sense of a crisis within Religious Zionism has deepened and intensified during the recent past. Few within the Religious Zionist fold would dispute the…
Departments Pg. 6 Letters to the Editor Pg. 8 President’s Message Orthodoxy Looking Inward Mandell I. Ganchrow, M.D. Pg. 77 Food New to OU Products,…
The Summer 1993 issue of Jewish Action was a landmark edition, published in tribute to the late Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt”l.
You either love noodle kugel or you hate it. For 50 years of kiddush on Shabbat morning I hated it. “Have a nice piece of…
As the Yomim Noraim approach, Jews the world over begin the sometimes painful, but much needed, process of introspection, cheshbon hanefesh. As vital as individual…
One of my mother’s favorite expressions whenever she saw us bringing home the latest fad was: “Wie es christelt sich, azoy es yiddelt sich.” So…
Firstly, we have a strong belief in the centrality of Eretz Yisrael. We believe that in our generation, where we merited to witness the rebuilding…
Though the Chumash repeatedly identifies Sukkot as the last of the trio of regalim beginning with Pesach and Shavuot, we cannot help but experience it…
A recent article in a psychiatric journal stated that the most common psychiatric diagnosis in adolescents today is “Oppositional Defiance Disorder.” This term refers to…
