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I first met Dr. Bernard Lander at the Orthodox Union’s 1964 Biennial Convention in Washington, DC. He was already a legend in OU circles, having…

The Beast That Crouches at the Door: Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, and Beyond By Rabbi David Fohrman Devora Publishing Jerusalem, 2007 216 pages…

Q: Lately, we’ve been eating out several times a week, and I feel it in my clothes–everything is getting tighter! How do I stop this…

Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua was asked by his disciples to explain his exceptional longevity. He told them, “In all my days I never took a…

Herod, an architectural genius, built the Herodium, a luxurious and magnificent fortress in the Judean Hills. Nowadays, many Jews flock to Herodium on Tisha B’Av…

I have attended almost thirty OU biennial conventions over the past sixty-five years but none, in retrospect, was as significant as the Thanksgiving weekend of…

     Photo: Tim Sullens Smack dab in the middle of a prolific Hollywood career, writing and producing such monster-hit shows as Friends, Roseanne and Malcolm…

While many kashrut organizations do a good job of upholding kashrut standards, we believe there is one factor that makes us unique in the kosher…

A discourse between Rabbi Aharon Feldman and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein regarding a Rabbi Lichtenstein's review of Rabbi Feldman's book, The Eye of the Storm

MISCONCEPTION: A Jew with a tattoo may not be buried in a Jewish cemetery. FACT: This belief has no basis in Jewish law. Just as…