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Dear Friends, As we watch helplessly from afar, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Syria and in particular the city of Aleppo. Today’s New York Times describes “A Complete Meltdown of Humanity’:...

L to R: Elan Karoll, Ahava Schachter-Zarembski, and Hayley Nagelberg. For Jewish students at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the recent devastating fires that spread throughout Israel was an opportunity...

This year, the Mall of America announced their first black Santa. Most people are okay with this – quite pleased, actually! – but there is a very vocal minority that has...

“Your name shall no longer be called Abram; rather, your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.” – Genesis 17:5 Bar Kapara...

New York – It was a day that should have been like any other. A Williamsburg man in his mid thirties placed his fully loaded tallis bag containing his tallis and...

Friends and Partners of Orthodox Union Advocacy, With Election Day upon us, I urge you to make the time to vote tomorrow, November 8. There are many contested races this year,...

Now that the holidays are over, the Jewish calendar will quickly turn to a slew of dinners and fund-raising events. The events will be fabulous because fabulous — said in a...

On the morning after Yom Kippur in September 1993 Senator Moynihan and I had a private meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres after his public appearance at the Park East...

Berlin – Seventy percent of European Jews will not go to synagogue on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur this year, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey was conducted last...

On Sunday, July 31, the New York Post published nude photographs of Donald Trump’s wife Melania, a former model, from a defunct French men’s magazine. This apparently warranted the front page, as...