Participants in OU Convention to Send Message: Jerusalem Must...
Participants in the upcoming Orthodox Union Biennial National Convention in Jerusalem will engage in a pair of highly visible activities in the streets of Jerusalem designed to send a...
Senate Majority Leader Skelos Meets With Orthodox Jewish Leadership
Senator Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, recently met with local leadership of the South Shore's Orthodox Jewish community, including synagogue rabbis, day school...
Toronto Colleges Welcome New OU JLIC Educators, the Greenbergs
The Heshe and Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) has arrived on Canadian shores – the program of the Orthodox Union has been established at York University, with satellite...
OU Kosher Provides Meals for a Captive Audience
Getting out of prison wasn’t supposed to be this easy.
Yachad To Hold HS Leadership Shabbaton in NJ, September...
High school students and Yachad members from all over the country will join together to spend the Shabbat weekend of September 26-28 at the Radisson Hotel in Piscataway, NJ, for the...
Rabbi Weinreb’s Rosh Hashana Op Ed
We are approaching the start of a new year, during which America will elect a new leader. As we use this time to reflect on our lives and how we lead...
OU Inaugurates Safe Schools Yeshiva Network Policy
In recognition of the potentially harmful and destructive influences of alcohol and other drugs on yeshiva/day school students and their families, 14 yeshiva high schools in the New York Metropolitan Area...
3 New York Area Shuls Chosen As Grant Recipients...
Three New York-area synagogues – two in Westchester and one in Manhattan – have been chosen as participants for a pilot outreach (kiruv) program geared to Jewish men and women seeking...
Rina Olivestone of Teaneck and Josh Gottesman of Chicago...
At this year’s NCSY’s “Best of the Best” awards, Rina Olivestone of Teaneck, 21, and Josh Gottesman, of Chicago, 21, were honored as NCSY Advisors of the Year for their outstanding...
Princeton University Welcomes New OU Torah Educators
Fresh off the plane from a year in Israel, Rabbi David and Sara Wolkenfield have arrived at Princeton University to serve as the new spiritual mentors and guides to Jewish students...
