Dear Friends, I hope this note finds you all well. Today the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day established by the United Nations to ensure that the memory […]

Twenty years ago, I was sworn in as a U.S. citizen at the War Memorial building in Baltimore. I went to the ceremony as a duty, not seeing it as […]

“In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush with Public Money.” This New York Times headline of 9/11/22 begs the question: How do you define a failing school? That likely depends […]

It feels as if our world is fraying. This week we encountered the horror of yet another mass shooting unleashed on an elementary school, killing 21, traumatizing hundreds of others, […]

An update from OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer:

A video message from OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer: Read a transcript of the video: Shalom Aleichem, Greetings from Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh where we had the privilege to […]