Some months ago, inside the entrance of a small museum in a non-Orthodox synagogue in the center of London, I saw an apparently incongruous sight—a…
Winter 2015(5776)
Take Two Tablets and Skype Me in the Morning: The Challenges of Our Children’s Technology
Misconception: All boys must begin putting on tefillin thirty days before their bar mitzvahs. Fact: There are two main opinions in halachah: boys should either…
Regarding the article “Shomer Shabbat Boy Scouting: Why Orthodox kids become Boy Scouts” (fall 2015), I want to point out that in the 1960s, Troop…
How do we persuade the world to take notice, to care? How do we persuade the world that these heinous acts are not—and can never…
For months . . . Israel [has been] faced with a new terrorist phenomenon . . . violent uprisings by the Palestinians . . .…
Back in the fall of 1985, the first issue of Jewish Action made its much-anticipated appearance. The brainchild of the then OU Publications Chairman Joel…
In an effort to provide even greater support for synagogues and Jewish communities across North America, the Orthodox Union’s Department of Community and Synagogue Services…
It was a bittersweet day in mid-August when Yad B’Yad 2015 came to a close. “There was not a second that I was excluded or…
Only two short years after its launch in August 2013, Yachad Gifts has opened its own retail store in Brooklyn. Yachad Gifts, a project of…
This past August, the OU published the first-ever, much-anticipated OU-JLIC college guide, designed to assist Orthodox parents, educators and students in making informed choices about…
