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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...

Finding true love seems to be a major challenge for adults today. How do you meet someone; what qualities are important to you; how will you know when it’s the right...

Simcha Katz (Teaneck) takes office as the Orthodox Union’s new President at OU Convention, Sunday January 16 The Orthodox Union “is a great tent encompassing hundreds of synagogues across North America,...

Can an international organization draw public school teenagers to a week long event that spans over their winter break and see them sorry to leave at the end of the week?...

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...

California Here I Come…. I consider myself a “foodie”, I love food, I deal with food companies daily and I travel to food trade shows for OU Kosher. Wikipedia’s definition of...

What do Paris, New York and Mexico have in common? Answer – kosher certification! Kosher certification has had steady growth over the past twenty years, by an average rate of 15...

San Francisco, go figure. Jews and Muslims may be divided on Jerusalem, but the Golden Gate Bridge city has managed to bridge the divide on a different issue of common interest:...

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...

Everyone knows the OU, it’s iconic. But the icon, which first appeared on food products back in 1923, has moved off supermarket shelves and into the future with an expanded vision...