Can We Create a More Health-Oriented and Less Food-Centric Culture? Q: Does being frum put one at greater risk of obesity? A: When it comes to religion and health, there’s an odd paradox. Religion… 1

In the food industry, kosherization is a method to purge a vessel of non-kosher absorption. It is achieved through the use of boiling water or intense heat, depending on the manner of non-kosher use. 0

Every year, as certainly as Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first two days of Tishrei and Yom Kippur occurs on the tenth, my friends and co-workers ask, “How was your davening?” And every year, just as… 0

“Of course a person should do teshuvah, but I am a bit puzzled. I observe Shabbos, I keep kosher and taharas hamishpachah. I daven every day, I attend a Daf Yomi shiur and I am honest in my business… 0

It is late in the afternoon on Tishah B’Av day. Having just spent the past several hours in shul listening to brilliant insights from Rabbis Steven Weil, Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Jacob J. Schacter and… 0

Q: I am about to begin a corporate job in Manhattan. Having always been in a frum environment, I would like to know about potential issues that can confront a religious Jew with regard to keeping… 0

I read the thousands of words written in the article “Can We All Get Along?” (summer 2012), but the proverbial “thousand words” of the pictures accompanying the article rang louder in my ears. And… 0

Your recent cover story on Jewish unity (summer 2012) brought to mind a fascinating experience I was privileged to be a part of some years ago. In 1997, while learning in Beth Medrash Govoha in… 0

As members of the OU in Israel, we await Jewish Action with anticipation. Unfortunately, Dr. Simcha Katz’s article “Supporting the Jewish Homeland” (summer 2012) left us sorely disappointed. Dr. Katz… 0

Addressing Divorce In “The Orthodox Family of the 21st Century” (spring 2012), various challenged populations in the Jewish community were lumped together. As someone who experienced divorce, I will… 0