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Health care, politics, and religion formed Tucson’s trifecta of loss earlier this week when a lone gunman opened fire on a crowd outside of a Safeway supermarket. The shooting spree, which...

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...

This article originally appeared in Jewish Action Magazine WINTER 2010/5771 – Volume 71, No. 2. For more articles, click Jewish Action Magazine or visit: http://www.ou.org/jewish_action To subscribe to Jewish Action Magazine...

A personal reflection following OU West Coast Convention’s workshop entitled “the Exceptional Family” In the great symphony of life, we all have important parts to play. While some people are best...

OK, I admit it. I like the flexibility of being a freelancer, even if it costs me the full 15.3% FICA. But every so often, I have an experience that makes...

This article has been reprinted with permission and first appeared 12/27/10 on Emes Ve-Emunah. I have just returned from another amazing and inspirational weekend at the annual conclave of NCSY of...

Yachad! It seems like there aren’t enough words to express how I feel about this organization or the impression it’s made on my life. For those of you who don’t know,...

On Shabbos Parshas Vayishlach our shul, Congregation Sha’arei Tzedek Mishkan Yair, was privileged to host a CHICAGO YACHAD Shabbaton. Special needs children and teens, together with high school volunteers and college...

Is it unorthodox to eat turkey on Thanksgiving, and if so, what’s your backup plan? Having occupied the minds of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner,...

This article was written by Rav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg z’l the Sridei Eish about my grandfather, the Gaon Rabbi Bezalel Ze’ev Shafran z’l, of Baku, Romania, author of She’elot U’tshuvot R’BAZ....