Last week, I proposed a model for a comprehensive hashkafa, a worldview: that of an army, a Great Battalion. Where does such an idea come
It’s incredible to reflect on the past 9 years of Yesh Tikva’s Infertility Awareness Shabbat; how synagogues around the world have been taking this one
(Courtesy of The Rabbi Sacks Legacy) The Rabbi Sacks Legacy announces the launch of the second cohort of the Sacks Scholars, a program designed to
SAR, Ramaz and Bruriah recently visited the OU’s headquarters for a deep dive on kosher as part of the program ASK OU (Advanced Seminars in
(Courtesy of the OU) It’s a situation which, Orthodox Union rabbanim say, unfortunately occurs far too often: A person invests in a number of beautiful
The late Barry Goldwater, who served as a senator from the state of Arizona and who, 60 years ago, made an unsuccessful bid for the
A wise person doesn’t judge people or things by the way they first appear. In this week’s Torah portion, we learn how the Jewish priests,
Excavating the history of words can sometimes be as revealing as excavating the ruins of an ancient city. Take the English word “enthusiasm.” Today, we
Mishap at Dinner A beautiful young Jewish family was enjoying dinner together, when the nine-year-old son mistakenly took a ben yomo (used that day) dairy
The eagerly anticipated moment had finally arrived. An entire nation, three million strong, assembled in the courtyard of the newly constructed Mishkan to inaugurate the
Gary Schrager, a former student at my yeshiva, used to work as a cameraman for Channel 7 News. He told me that whenever there was
Last week, we saw that human suffering results from man’s actions, rather than part of Hashem’s intention for His ideal world. This week, we will
