Volume # 0

Summer 2010(5770) 5770

In this issue
Gather Around The Grill
Recipes

Gather Around The Grill

The incredible aroma of food cooking on the grill is a sure-fire way to spark your appetite. Here are some ways to sneak some nutrition onto the plate the next time everyone gathers around the grill.

Kinot: The Language of Loss
Churban

Kinot: The Language of Loss

My birthday is on Purim. But my destiny seems to be linked with Tishah B’Av. For more than twenty years I have had the privilege of leading presentations of the kinot every Tishah B’Av morning. Initially I conducted these programs in my former synagogue, Shomrei Emunah of Baltimore, Maryland. There the attendance grew by leaps […]

How to Make a Good Marriage Great
Marriage

How to Make a Good Marriage Great

1. SPEND TIME TOGETHER Even ten minutes a day of uninterrupted time to touch base builds connection. Spending more time when available and setting aside time to be together (e.g., date nights) are just as important. The key is being present, focusing only on the person in front of you, to the exclusion of all […]

OU Marriage Survey: Do Frum Couples Have Happier Marriages?
Marriage

OU Marriage Survey: Do Frum Couples Have Happier Marriages?

As part of the Orthodox Union’s ongoing commitment to strengthen the Jewish family, the OU recently conducted an online international survey on marital satisfaction in the Orthodox community. The anonymous Aleinu Marital Satisfaction Survey, which took place from January to March 2009, targeted the Orthodox community and focused upon the many facets of marital satisfaction […]

Of Faith and Fiction: Frum Novelists Go Mainstream
People

Of Faith and Fiction: Frum Novelists Go Mainstream

A growing number of frum fiction writers are not only entering the mainstream, they are challenging the widely held assumption that realistic depictions of religious Jews don’t sell books. Can Orthodox novelists make it in the mainstream literary market? Apparently they can. In today’s publishing market, where explicit scenes and violence reign, a new crop […]

Major Marriage Challenges
Marriage

Major Marriage Challenges

We often have the tendency to look for the “tzuris.” There certainly are enough problems to go around, and because the negatives tend

Jewish Life In Eygpt
Travel

Jewish Life In Eygpt

Once proud and flourishing, the Jewish communities of Egypt are today on the verge of extinction. With a generous research grant from the Orthodox Union, Dr. Ari Greenspan and Rabbi Dr Ari Z. Zivotofsky recently visited the dwindling Egyptian Jewish communities of Alexandria and Cairo to offer hope and encouragement to the few remaining Jews […]

A Builder Par Excellence: Dr. Bernard Lander, a”h 1915-2010
Tribute

A Builder Par Excellence: Dr. Bernard Lander, a”h 1915-2010

Fifty years ago, when I was in high school and Dr. Bernard Lander was the dean of Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School, we would often ride together to the YU campus. During the drive, Dr. Lander would often speak about building his own college. Even as a teenager I thought, “He is a dreamer.” […]

Dr. Lander’s Legacy
Tribute

Dr. Lander’s Legacy

I first met Dr. Bernard Lander at the Orthodox Union’s 1964 Biennial Convention in Washington, DC. He was already a legend in OU circles, having served as a director or officer since 1938 (at his death he had served on the Union’s Board for seventy- two of the organization’s one hundred and twelve years). I […]