What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
Remember the musical Bye Bye Birdie? In it, Paul Lynde sings this famous refrain: Kids! I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today! Kids! Who can understand anything they say?...
Mar 12, 2019
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Dear Anti-Semitism
Dear Anti-Semitism, I have heard and read about you so many times in my life, especially this week. I have seen you. I have felt you. I have experienced you. You...
Nov 14, 2018
By Deborah Shamilov, RN, BSN
A Shabbat to Remember – 80 Years Since Kristallnacht
This Shabbat (November 9-10) will mark 80 years since Kristallnacht, the ‘Night of the Broken Glass,’ when the Nazis destroyed hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish businesses. Below are some...
Nov 8, 2018
By OU Staff
Memorial Poster Honors the Victims of Pittsburgh Attack
From Congregation Tirefeth Beth David Jerualem in Montreal: We undertook a project a few days ago to help pay tribute to the 11 holy victims whose lives were taken in Pittsburgh....
Nov 1, 2018
By OU Staff
A Pittsburgh Rebbetzin Reflects on This Week’s Tragedy
This Shabbos morning began like any other. My husband gave the littlest kids their breakfast so that I could get a few extra minutes of sleep. After he left for shul,...
Oct 31, 2018
By Anna Yolkut
Pants on Fire: The Occasional Liar is an Anomaly
On December 1, 18-year-old Baruch College student Yasmin Seweid reported that she had been attacked by a group of drunken men who chanted “Donald Trump,” called her a terrorist and tried...
Dec 21, 2016
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online
From .Mic: In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more...
Jun 3, 2016
By OU Staff
Israeli Leadership Failing at Combatting BDS, State Watchdog Warns
The Times of Israel: The Foreign Ministry has no overall strategy, lacks funds and is failing to achieve its goals in the battle against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against...
May 24, 2016
By OU Staff
In new Gaza clip, kids urge ‘martyrdom, blowing up...
From The Times of Israel: New footage to emerge out of a children’s festival in the Gaza Strip shows play-acting Palestinian kids urging each other to “die as martyrs” and “blow...
May 12, 2016
By OU Staff
Kingsborough Jewish Faculty See Pattern Of Prejudice
From The Jewish Week: When the business department search committee members saw the CV, they felt like they had hit pay dirt. The applicant for the accounting assistant professor position not...
May 12, 2016
By OU Staff
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