This Chanukah, Go “Screen Free for 30”
Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, known as the The Kedushas Levi, once walked into his Bait Medresh and saw a few of his students discussing something with a sense of yearning...
Nov 28, 2018
By Rabbi Eric Goldman
What is the Torah Approach to Fire Safety?
Responding to a question submitted to Jew in the City, Rabbi Jack Abramowitz tackles the issue of balancing the observance of mitzvot (particular ones that involve fire or heating up food)...
Nov 28, 2018
By OU Staff
Rabbi Soloveitchik on Ari Fuld zk”l and the Willow...
“The lion has roared, who will not fear” (Amos:3:8). “אַרְיֵה שָׁאָג, מִי לֹא יִירָא” The Shelah Hakadosh (Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz 1555-1630) suggests that this verse hints to this precise time of...
Sep 26, 2018
By Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider
All About Hoshanos
From OU Holidays! What are Hoshanos? Why do we say them? Why is the schedule the way it is? What’s “Ani Vaho?” Find out all this and more with this colorful, downloadable...
Sep 20, 2018
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
If Your Sukkah and Your Lulav Could Talk…
Shlomo Horwitz is the founding director of Jewish Crossroads, an educational theater project that has provided creative Torah programming across the US, Canada, England and Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Shaalvim...
Sep 20, 2018
By Shlomo Horwitz
Rosh Hashanah and the Fall of Winston Churchill
On July 5, 1945, the world witnessed one of the greatest “betrayals” in the annals of human existence. Two months after the Allied victory over the Nazis, in one of the...
Sep 5, 2018
By Rabbi David Rabhan
The Heat is On
The crisis was real. My wife had tried to bake bread and left it in the oven for the right amount of time at the right temperature. But the results were...
Sep 4, 2018
By Shlomo Horwitz
Tisha b’Av is not about the Beit Hamikdash
Everyone knows that the reason we fast on Tisha b’Av is because we are mourning the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, the Temple that stood in Jerusalem. Everyone but the Rambam,...
Jul 19, 2018
By Rabbi Moshe Davis
Breaking in Order to Build
Thinking about the upcoming observance of Tisha b’Av, I was struck by a bit of irony. (At least, I think it’s irony, though I’ve been a little paranoid ever since I...
Jul 18, 2018
By Sarah Rudolph
The Psychology of Tisha B’Av & Kinot: Five Questions...
We recently had the privilege of speaking with Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb about the deeper meaning of Tisha B’Av. Rabbi Weinreb, a clinical psychotherapist and internationally-renowned Torah scholar, hosts the...
Jul 18, 2018
By OU Staff
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