As this issue of Jewish Action is the last one published under my chairmanship, I thought it fitting to comment on these last twenty years, which have been so interesting and fruitful. In 1984, then-OU President Shimon Kwestel requested that I chair the Publications Commission of the Orthodox Union. I had the good fortune of […]
What is the meaning of resilience? What is Jewish resilience? This is one of the central themes in this issue.
Who could predict how the pandemic would play out and what people would want to know about or read about in the months ahead?
Some decades ago, when I was about to graduate Yeshiva University where I majored in English literature, I was encouraged to take an aptitude test. I did, and once I got the results, I shared them with my mother. “Mom,” I said, “I scored high in abstract thinking.” “How will you support a family with […]