Tag: OU

“There is such a spirit of unity and desire on behalf of Jews across the globe to give and support Israel in any way possible during this difficult period."

Communal leaders Avi and Becky Katz have established a multi-year, multi-million national initiative with NCSY, the flagship youth movement of the Orthodox Union.

“Our hope is that this repository of ideas can serve as a launching pad for others,” said Rabbi Adir Posy.

The country is facing a skyrocketing number of infections and an overstretched medical system.

“The synagogue is the halachic and historic hub of Jewish life, and this program is designed to highlight that,” said OU executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer.

The Ritz Carlton Manama will be under OU supervision.

Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski and team prepared 300 kosher meals over the course of the two-day event in the United Arab Emirates.

Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, has launched a free online kosher food and travel guide to help Jews follow dietary and ritual observance while away from home.

Programming includes 14 Shabbatonim, in addition to cooking classes, bowling outings, family support groups and sensitivity training.

They discussed the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Jewish education and identity in the Diaspora.

We checked the ten top Top foie gras joints in Antwerp, Belgium, and are happy to report none of them is kosher.

Discussions are focused on some of the more delicate and complex issues facing women in the Jewish community.

“You have to ask a reliable kosher agency who stands behind the ‘K’ on the product,” said Rabbi Moshe Berger, operations manager at the Orthodox Rabbinical Board.

There's nothing like spending Pesach in Jerusalem.

Amazing hotel in an amazing location along the Kinneret beach.

No organization (i.e.the OU) can excommunicate anyone. It does not, however, mean that our communities lack organizing principles. Those principles operate based on individual choice. People effectively expel synagogues not compliant with mainstream halacha.

The OU has established parameters for a three-year period during which the umbrella body for American Orthodox congregations will work to bring its member synagogues who employ female clergy into compliance with OU standards, which stipulate that a woman cannot serve as a rabbi.

Let's say the OU were to expel a synagogue, or 4, what practical difference would it make?

Jewish music superstar Mordechai Shapiro entertained the massive crowd at the event.

Rabbi David Fohrman discusses how to make Chumash come alive for your kids on OU's Torah in the City.

How do we expand leadership roles and titles that the OU and its Rabbinical Panel recommend while developing and continuing a halakhic conversation about the exact parameters of those roles and titles?

Rabbi Emanuel Holzer was one of the first and most active in helping to grow the "kosher food industry" at the OU.

The Orthodox Union, B'nai Brith and the Houston Federation are pitching in.

The OU criticized White House and State Dept. Spokespeople for suggesting Jews buying houses in Jerusalem is 'provocative.'

A dozen rabbis and a Jewish gun club are extremely critical of the position on gun control taken by the RCA and the OU.

The news that the Chief Rabbinate withdrew kosher supervisors from Turkish plants in the face of Israel’s war in Gaza is part of what...

Inevitably when tragedies like this happen there is a sudden burst of Achdus. Tragedies unite.

New York NCSY, the OU, Bnei Akiva and RCA are launching a "virtual vigil" to bring the kidnapped teens home.

The famous Girl Guides cookies now have the OU approval as being kosher thanks to an all-Orthodox troop in Canada, but their chocolate mint...

Now quinoa is OK for Pesach says the OU.