Rabbi Steven Weil

A new Yachad program is set to begin this summer!  Yachad will be partnering with the hottest day camp around, Moshava Ba’ir, to provide vocational placement for adults who have special needs.  This program...

The “Church vs. State” aspect of recent healthcare legislation reared its head again last week when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (who is Catholic) was booed at Georgetown University (which is a...

Every year, the OU has a great crowd of hundreds of staff members, lay leaders, Yachad members, NCSYers and many others who march with us in the Celebrate Israel Parade up Fifth Avenue in...

Maury Litwack, OU Director of Political Affairs, will serve as scholar-in-residence at Kesher Israel Congregation in Harrisburg, PA for Shabbat, Friday, June 15-Saturday, June 16, in a community weekend presented by the OU Karasick...

OU Singles Connection invites singles ages 35 and above to a buffet dinner on Tuesday, May 29 with special guest speaker Rabbi Yaakov Spivak at Mr. Broadway, 1372 Broadway (at 38th Street) in Manhattan....

OU Torah Content Editor Rabbi Jack Abramowitz has released his largest and most ambitious book to date, The Taryag Companion. Clocking in at 694 pages, this hefty tome includes thorough and incisive explanations of...

Orthodox Union member synagogue the Woodside Jewish Center in Queens, NY has closed its doors after more than eight decades, the victim of shifting demographics. Its memory will live on, however, thanks to a...

More than 200 people attended the OU Department of Community Engagement’s medical ethics conference, “Clinical and Torah Perspectives on Intimacy and Fertility,” co-sponsored by The Puah Institute, which was held April 29 at Congregation...

Chloe Fein, a senior at Ramaz and an active Yachad participant, wrote an article for Fresh Ink for Teens, a website hosted by The Jewish Week Media Group, whose content is written for and...

OU Kosher has announced the winners of the 2012 OU Kosher Essay Contest for grades 7-12. They are Michelle Natanova (Queens, NY), Zev Kraut (Pittsburgh, PA), Shmuel Michaels (Greenwood Village, CO) and Hannah Kark...