Can independent contractors form unions to collectively bargain as a group? A federal court in Seattle says no. The matter reached court after drivers for
A while back, I attended a family simcha in New Square, a Hasidic village in Ramapo, New York. The lunchroom cum auditorium doubles as a
So apparently, April 22 is Earth Day. Most of us don’t care about Earth Day, because we don’t get off of work. (Though this year
When I was a young boy, going to the movies was just about the height of entertainment, especially for a 10 year old. I remember
Over the past several decades, it has become the norm in most Modern Orthodox communities for high school graduates to study in Israel for a
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel Ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Bava Batra
Darkness. Then the beams of flashlights. Followed by the glow of a candle. The Birnbaum family was scouring the house for the last morsels of
What a statistic! The current issue of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action reports (https://www.ou.org/jewish_action/03/2017/data-divorce-q-dr-yitzchak-schechter) a study by Dr. Yitzchak Schechter (a clinical psychologist and director
Ve-higadeta le-vincha bayom hahu… (“You shall tell your son on that day”) is a key verse of the Seder night. But what exactly does vehigadeta
On the Seder night, one of the great tzadikim of Yerushalayim physically brings to life the words of the Haggadah. In the very beginning of
Shabbat HaGadol Parshat Metzora After studying today’s haftarah, one realizes that there seems to be very little connection to the fact that it is the
Recently, I saw an article about the American classic song “Ol’ Man River” from the 1927 musical and 1936 film classic “Show Boat.” The song
