Variations on the Chanukah Theme

Religious Compulsions and Fears By Avigdor Bonchek Feldheim Publishers Jerusalem, 2009 198 pages Reviewed by Rivkah Rabinowitz It is often difficult to distinguish between “normal”…

This past summer, dozens of youth professionals from across North America attended the highly successful OU National Youth Professionals Conference for a day of learning,…

There Are No Basketball Courts in Heaven By Dovid Landesman The Jewish Educational Workshop Pennsylvania, 2010 176 pages Rabbi Dovid Landesman’s volume of essays on…

Thanks, in part, to the aggressive efforts of the OU’s Institute for Public Affairs (IPA), the US Department of Homeland Security awarded $19 million in…

Jerry and Anne Gontownik of Englewood, New Jersey, easily exemplify the motto, “you are what you do.” For close to three decades and running, this…

In 1919, a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms, led by Polish peasants and soldiers, took place in Jewish towns throughout Western Galicia. A New York Times…

A moving tribute to the Bostoner Rebbe, on his first yahrtzeit (1921-2009). A very long and productive life came to an end last December—long not…