Rabbi Steven Weil 271 articles

Irene has come and gone. Hopefully, most of you came through relatively unscathed. As the storm swept up the eastern seaboard over a Shabbos and Sunday, we received grateful feedback

This week, Rabbi Judah Isaacs, the OU’s Director of Community Engagement, and I visited the Five Towns on the south shore of Long Island. While there, we met with the heads

You’ve no doubt heard the buzz about Senator Joseph Lieberman’s latest book, The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, co-published by OU Press and Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Team Yachad will be once again be participating in the ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon and they are hoping to have their biggest turnout to date. The runners who take part raise

We’ve discussed YouthCon a bit over the past few weeks and now that we can discuss it in the past tense, it did not disappoint. If anything, it exceeded the incredibly high

YouthCon is almost here and it continues to generate a nearly-unprecedented level of excitement and anticipation! Scheduled for this coming Sunday, August 21, in Stamford, CT, YouthCon has already reinforced NCSY‘s position

We are pleased to welcome two new campus couples to the JLIC family: Rabbi Gideon and Aliza Black at NYU, and Rabbi Noah and Sarah Cheses at Yale. Gideon, originally from the UK, has a law

We’ve received so much positive feedback from parents for NCSY Summer Programs! A small sample appears below. First, a family from Houston had three daughters on three different NCSY Summer Programs!

The OU testified before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in support of theEducational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC), calling it “a nationally-mimicked model” that enjoys “bi-partisan, bicameral” support that “does not pit public

A Washington state appellate court unanimously ruled against an animal protection group that tried to strike down as unconstitutional a law protecting religious slaughter. The state law defines severing the carotid artery