Convention 6 articles

Listen to the full interview In a new Savitsky Talks series, Stephen Savitsky talks to his interviewees about the future of the role of women in Orthodox Jewish life. This week,...

Mindful that not everyone in our global community was able to attend our extraordinary weekend of learning and inspiration at the Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, January 14-16, 2011, we...

In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson, “civility” is the word on everyone’s lips. This is ironic when one considers that civility is nowhere to be found in anyone’s...

To find out more about OU’s 2011 Convention Resolutions, including those issues relating to civility, please visit: OU Adopts Resolutions at 2011 Convention Judaism demands that we empathize with the sorrow...

On Sunday, January 16, at the Biennial National Convention of the Orthodox Union in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Dr. Simcha Katz officially assumed the position of the 13th President of the OU....

In February 2007, Shabbat Shalom featured an op-ed piece titled “Flipped Over the Wig” by Barbara Bensoussan. The article (pro-tichel, anti-sheitel) received numerous comments and continues to generate them nearly four...