Baseball was on Rabbi Zvi Kahn’s mind as he headed from his home in Columbus, Ohio, to the nearby Jewish Community Center after Havdalah one…
Spring 2013 (5773)
A Non-Gebrokts, Gluten-Free Passover
Visiting Houston a few months ago, at the start of the high school basketball season, I spent some time at the Robert M. Beren Hebrew…
A religious kibbutz that is a world leader in the technology of organic farming “God took the man and placed him in the Garden of…
Within hours of Sandy’s devastation, the OU sprung into action. On its web site, the OU launched the OU Hurricane Relief Fund, giving the greater…
When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast some months ago, destroying many neighborhoods in its path, quite a few…
Reading about the term “Half Shabbos” used to describe those who use their cell phones on Shabbat (summer 2012), made me think of another area…
I thank Mr. Berman for his letter. As the title of my column indicates, these are brief reviews. In the short space allocated for this…
Your recent cover story, which includes profiles of working women and “Tips for the Working Mom,” is an important one. Having two solid incomes has…
I enjoyed Rabbi Shalom Baum’s letter in response to the article “Is Half-Shabbos Really No Shabbos?” (fall 2012) on the dangers of calling teens who…
In his review of Rabbi David Hartman’s book The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition (winter 2012), Rabbi Gil Student simply states…
