Winter Workout

On Shabbat Chanukah of 2006, my older sister Sandy passed away. Raised a secular Jew, she had arranged to have her body cremated and gave…

Which country boasts some of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the world, outside of Israel? Surprisingly, it’s Germany. Who would have predicted that some 120,000…

Accept Your Decision to Work and Come to Terms with It. Don’t let other people’s remarks create unnecessary guilt

With canes in their hands and anticipation on their faces, a number of men and women made their way to the Pearlstone Retreat Center’s main…

Rabbi Menachem Genack, Chief Executive Officer of OU Kosher, and his family were recently invited to the White House to participate in a Jewish heritage…

Rabbi Zev Eleff’s plaintive cry about the (alleged) dearth of historical data on American Orthodox Jewry (“In Search of American Orthodox Jewish History,” fall 2012)…

Professor Benny Kraut’s delightful history of the Yavneh student organization shows how college students can and have permanently altered the Jewish world.

Rabbi David Hartman was once a leading student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik but his intellectual path has long since diverged from his teacher’s.

A rabbi’s contribution to the extensive minyan hamitzvot literature, books that count and explain the Torah’s 613 commandments, serves as a personality test.

I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Simcha Katz (“Supporting the Jewish Homeland,” summer 2012) that greater kavanah in our tefillot is a key element in strengthening…