Teach PA Advocacy Day in Harrisburg focused on Increased Funding for Nonpublic Schools Harrisburg, PA— Two hundred Jewish Day School activists including parents, students, educators and community leaders rallied on the steps of the capitol yesterday, May 2, 2018, as part of Teach PA’s annual mission to Harrisburg. Teach PA is part of the Teach […]

  NEW YORK – DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys recently competed against four other Jewish high schools for NCSY’s annual JUMP (Jewish Unity Mentoring Program) competition. The program is NCSY’s national leadership pro  gram and social entrepreneurship competition, in which participants from schools throughout the United States and Canada learn to make positive changes in their communities […]

OU Press announces the publication of With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Senator Joe Lieberman with Rabbi Ari Kahn, published in conjunction with Maggid Books. The book explores the link between Passover and Shavuot—and the connection between the concepts of liberty and law. Charting the fifty-day period between […]

ORTHODOX UNION LAUNCHES FIRST IMPACT ACCELERATOR PROGRAM TO INVEST IN NEXT GENERATION OF JEWISH NONPROFIT ENTREPRENEURS UP TO $25,000 IN SEED FUNDING TO BE AWARDED TO EACH WINNING PROJECT NEW YORK – The Orthodox Union (OU), the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, has launched the OU Impact […]

Torah New York Day of Learning Will Offer Top Scholars Addressing Issues Like #Metoo, Addiction, Politics and Law & Justice

New York, NY—OU Press announces the publication of Thirteen Steps—Orthodox Judaism in America Comes of Age: My Life and Times by Rabbi Joseph Karasick. Rabbi Karasick, a former president of the Orthodox Union, is both a front-row witness and contributor to the flourishing of Orthodox Judaism in America. In mid-twentieth century America, predictions of Orthodoxy’s […]