Rosh Hashanah is usually associated with apples and honey, symbolizing sweetness for the coming New Year. In our family, honey cake, apple cake or strudel and a carrot tzimmes sweetened with honey are… 0

More than a week after Hurrican Sandy hit the east coast of the United States, the effects are still being felt. Rabbi Harvey Belovski’s article following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti teaches us… 0

Facts and Figures about the New Year AT A GLANCE • 5771 has 385 days, including 55 Shabbatot, the longest possible year in the Jewish calendar. Calendar • 5771 is a 13-month year, known as a Jewish… 0

Warsaw Photo: Ahron D. Weiner/www.ahronphoto.com The big news in Krakow’s Jewish community last year didn’t make the news. A young Jewish couple got married. The bride and groom, typical of Polish… 0

    Miriam inside the gates of the White House. Courtesy of Miriam Shapiro The invitation finally came, but unfortunately it was on Shabbat. I’ve never had such anxiety about opening a… 0

The Mind of the Mourner: Individual and Community in Jewish Mourning By Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky / OU Press The cycle of life inevitably includes death. Births, weddings, and other celebrations are only… 0

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, kindly agreed to be interviewed for this special section of Jewish Action exploring our responsibility to the broader… 0

Frank Buchweitz’s office at the Orthodox Union headquarters in downtown Manhattan is small, his desk crowded but not disorderly. A dry-erase board on the wall across from him has every square inch… 0

              Photos courtesy of David Lazerson It was David in the lion’s den. Fresh out of graduate school and a few years out of yeshivah, ba’al teshuvah David… 0