More than 800 friends and supporters of the Seymour J. Abrams Orthodox Union Jerusalem World Center attended a concert to support the Center’s programs this…
Fall 2011 (5772)
What's the Truth about . . . Fasting on Yom Kippur?
This past June, national leaders of the OU gathered in Washington, DC for the annual Leadership Mission organized by the OU’s Institute for Public Affairs…
Every year, the OU has a great crowd of hundreds of staff members, lay leaders, Yachad members, NCSYers and many others who march with us…
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic, was forty-two. Both worked at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield as program analysts…
The following is a meager attempt to record the awesome occurrences that both my colleagues in Hatzalah–the emergency Jewish volunteer ambulance service for all members…
“The great tragedy of life,” Kierkegaard wrote, “is that it must be lived forward and can only be understood backwards.”
Nancy Morgenstern, a”h: Remembering a Life of Joy, Faith and Passion As told to Bayla Sheva Brenner Nancy Morgenstern, a vibrant thirty-two-year-old Orthodox woman, was…
The tuition crisis is one of the most significant issues challenging our community today. School administrators and board…
JA: How much money should one give to tzedakah? RHS: If one can afford it, the recommended amount is one-tenth of one’s annual earnings, which…
This issue was a particularly difficult one to work on. Reading the personal reminiscences of family members who lost loved ones, poring over first person-accounts…
