Review of Wine, Whisky and Halachah
With the upcoming obligation to drink the Four Cups at the Seder, the OU Kosher hotline is generally inundated with hundreds of callers asking a variety of questions about one topic in particular: wine.
A Hundred Years of Purim Recipes
Looking to breathe new life into your mishloach manot? Try your hand at some vintage Purim recipes from the antique cookbook collection of Eli Genauer.
What’s the Truth about . . . Mishloach Manot?
Misconception: The two foods sent on Purim for mishloach manot must be from two different categories of blessings. Fact: This widespread misconception has no halachic basis. Background: Mishloach manot is one of the four mitzvot established by Mordechai and Esther to be performed on Purim day. Alluded to in Megillat Esther, these mitzvot are: reading […]
Purim with Dr. Seuss
I will not come before the king
I will not come for anything!
Would you, could you in a coach?
His majesty you must approach.
9/11
Lot’s Daughters 
The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 
9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,
9/11Lot’s Daughters The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,
9/11Lot’s Daughters The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,