Over the past several decades, the observance of Tishah B’Av has been transformed for many of us.
My destiny seems linked with Tishah B’Av.
As our Jeep bounces violently through a valley somewhere in the Jordan Valley, we spot a group of about fifteen khaki-clad soldiers on a nearby hill.
As a new immigrant to Israel, I volunteered for a two-year stint in Nahal Haredi.
Josh Tresser, nineteen, of Cleveland, Ohio, had plans to graduate public high school, go off to college in Colorado and snowboard to his heart’s delight.
Special Section: Marriage
As part of the Orthodox Union’s ongoing commitment to strengthen the Jewish family, the OU recently conducted an online international survey on marital satisfaction in the Orthodox community.
We often have the tendency to look for the “tzuris.”
Once proud and flourishing, the Jewish communities of Egypt are today on the verge of extinction.
Fifty years ago, when I was in high school and Dr. Bernard Lander was the dean of Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School, we would often ride together to the YU campus.
I first met Dr. Bernard Lander at the Orthodox Union’s 1964 Biennial Convention in Washington, DC.
Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua was asked by his disciples to explain his exceptional longevity.