Why It’s Essential to Condemn the Scalise Shooting, No...
The big news last week was the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) at, of all things, a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, VA. But this was not a...
Jun 19, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
How Visiting Holocaust Survivors Led Me to New York’s...
I was down and out, the day after Yom Kippur in 2014. A financial advisor for over 20 years, not fully recovered from the financial crises of a few years prior,...
Jun 19, 2017
By Michael J. Weinstein
Novominsker Rebbe, Shlita, Acclaims OU Kosher At Its Annual...
Jun 15, 2017
By OU Staff
The Dangers of Overhyping the Jewishness of Gal Gadot...
Have you seen Wonder Woman? Even if you haven’t, you’re no doubt aware of it. This movie is huge, and rightfully so. First of all, it’s a DC superhero movie that...
Jun 14, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Widows Don’t Mourn For Just One Month
Smiling, I sat at my grandson’s Bar Mitzvah just six weeks after my husband Adam’s passing. Everyone was kind to me. That day went beautifully. Up until that day I had...
Jun 14, 2017
By Linda Goldberg
Protest, But Protest Wisely
This is kind of what happened with the call to boycott Sears last week. In case you missed it, Jewish social media was blowing up over pro-Palestinian t-shirts that were offered...
Jun 12, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Actors on the Stage of Life
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts -William Shakespeare Life...
Jun 12, 2017
By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
There Were Once Jews Here: The ’67 Flight of...
We have been hearing a lot about the war waged by multiple Arab countries against Israel 50 years ago. But there was another war waged by some of those same countries that same...
Jun 12, 2017
By Lucette Lagnado
Knock on the Door
Danny and I had been dating for two years when we decided to move from New York to Los Angeles. In LA, there are two big Jewish areas – Pico-Robertson and...
Jun 9, 2017
By Kylie Ora Lobell
Kathy Griffin Learns About Unintended Consequences
Comedian Kathy Griffin has been taking serious heat for posing with a bloody effigy of President Donald Trump’s severed head in a picture by photographer Tyler Shields. Yes, President Trump is...
Jun 9, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
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