by Bayla Sheva Brenner I am conducting research for an article to be featured in an upcoming issue of Jewish Action magazine (the OU’s quarterly publication) on family estrangement – parent and adult child,...
“Please don’t bring your toys into my kitchen, young lady!” the busy mother warned her loaded-up little daughter. The child’s response: “Well, it’s MY kitchen too!” Her parents had a good laugh over that...
I am not defending the substance of his essays (here and here). For all I know, he could be dead wrong on every point, even though his presentation was based on studies and analyses...
Only in the mind of the modern feminist can an orthodox Rabbi advocate for pre-marital sexual abstinence and be deemed a rape apologist. Such was the peculiar response in some precincts to my recent essay.
With thanks to those who arranged and attended the shiur today, it is now available for download. It is similar to the style of previous years, with mostly new content from the Chasam Sofer,...
by Rabbi Eliyahu Safran With speech comes the power to raise up and to bring down, to pray to God and to demean others. Speech is also easy and, too often, used thoughtlessly or,...
Rav Chaim Yosef Goldberg zt”l 71 Years Later, Dachau Victim’s Remains Are Brought to Rest in St. Louis OU KOSHER PRE-PASSOVER WEBINAR 2016 Orthodox Union Rejects Sen. Sanders’ Statements about Israel Bernie Sanders: A...
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” may generally be sound advice, but it happily has been ignored in regard to classic Torah works. The last decades have seen a steady stream of improvements...
“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser,” the famous, and famously blunt, General George S. Patton declared in a 1944 speech. “When you were kids,” he explained, “you all admired the...
You’ve got to watch out for those haredim. They are going to take over the Jewish world, if you don’t stop them. We’ve just learned of another stealth target of theirs – Israel’s...
