What's the Truth about . . . Fasting on Yom Kippur?

Is it preferable to eat a little and then spend Yom Kippur day in shul davening rather than stay at home in bed fasting?

Is it prohibited to wear all leather items, such as a leather belt or yarmulke, on Yom Kippur?

By Avraham Rosen Digitally adjusted image of the calendar Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, author of Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata, created when he was seventeen years old while…

Responding to the Affordability Crisis In the summer issue of Jewish Action (“Making Orthodox Life More Affordable”), OU President Dr. Simcha Katz paints the tuition…

The Future of the Sefer I found the recent Jewish Action issue (spring 2011) about technology and Torah to be worthwhile and relevant. Rabbi Gil…

Slow cookers come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Most models are dishwasher-safe and quite easy to clean. If your conventional oven is full,…

Rabbi Ari Kahn, a distinguished scholar and educator at Bar-Ilan University, presents a series of strikingly original interpretive essays on the weekly parashah,

Anyone reading the news regularly sees images and stories of Orthodox Jews, occasionally even rabbis, misbehaving.

Psychologist Ivan Lerner argues that “Tiger Mom” may have a point after all As an educator and a clinical psychologist for the past thirty-five years,…

Truly historic publishing events, those that stand the test of time, rarely occur. The Koren Mesorat HaRav Siddur, featuring the commentary of Rabbi Joseph B.…