One of the major themes of this year’s Orthodox Union (OU) convention was the primacy of mesorah. Learning…
Spring 2011 (5771)
Is Orthodoxy Unhealthy?
At The Frisch School, a teacher uses a Smart Board to teach a Navi class. Courtesy of Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky There is no question that…
I consider myself to be fairly well plugged into twenty-first-century technology. I have a BlackBerry; own several desktop computers and a laptop and use Bluetooth…
In critical ways, technology has transformed how we live. This has been true, in a sense, for more than two centuries or since the Industrial…
The first week Josh Kahn began working as the director of communications for Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), a big story broke about an hour before…
An Argentinian student of the Jewish Online School taking a Torah class. Courtesy of the Jewish Online School With the ongoing tuition crisis, many are…
Amidst great excitement and enthusiasm, the Orthodox Union held its National Convention and One Day Conference on Jewish Life over the weekend of January 14-16…
Is the Sefer History? The future of the Sefer, the Jewish book, is currently uncertain, but not for the reasons you might think. Jews have…
Technological developments are often aimed at solving the world’s great problems: feeding the hungry, reversing global warming, curing disease. But what about the world’s most…
A candidate running for public office who coolly alleges that she hates politics may be a bit of an anomaly, but that’s not the only…
