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Losing Your Job Without Losing Yourself

By Cary A. Friedman Losing a job is never a pleasant or easy or pleasant experience. A job plays a variety of different roles in our lives. Some of those roles are healthy; others are not. Many people...

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The New Economic Reality: And How It Is Affecting Frum Communities Across the...

By Tamar Snyder In the not too distant past, three frum children—ages nine, twelve, and fifteen—shuffled into the Masbia kosher soup kitchen in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Despite the warm...

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The OU: Getting You and Your Community Politically Involved

For years, the Orthodox Union has advocated on behalf of the Jewish community. From lobbying influential politicians to issuing policy briefs and holding policy conferences, the OU’s Institute for...

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Be Your Own Lobbyist: How to Speak Up For Your Community

Until recently, the vast majority of frum families in the US were concentrated in a fairly small number of cities and suburbs. Today, thanks to growing numbers—and a welcome decline in...

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Ethics at Work

By Aaron Levine This article originally appeared in the Winter 2005 issue of Jewish Action. In the early 1940s, Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen Dushnitzer, the mashgiach of the Lomza Yeshiva in Petach Tikvah,...

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Growing a Tree of Knowledge: Nechama Salfer

By Avigayil Perry Lying in her hospital bed while recovering from a life-threatening emergency C-section, Nechama (Nicki) Salfer gazed at a tree outside the window. Her then-five-year-old daughter and...

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Dappling in Cleaning Formulas : Tamar Rosenthal & Dana Rubinstein

By Avigayil Perry Growing numbers of Orthodox women from across the spectrum of Orthodoxy are using their ambition, ingenuity and creativity to launch successful businesses of their own. Why am I using...

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Making Your Dream House Come True: Chaya Ruchi Gross

By Avigayil Perry Growing numbers of Orthodox women from across the spectrum of Orthodoxy are using their ambition, ingenuity and creativity to launch successful businesses of their own. “Choose a job...

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Building a Community of Women: Chaya Fishman

By Avigayil Perry Growing numbers of Orthodox women from across the spectrum of Orthodoxy are using their ambition, ingenuity and creativity to launch successful businesses of their own. The seeds of...

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The New Entrepreneur

Why the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well and booming in the Orthodox community The recession of 2008 may have left thousands of Orthodox Jews out of work, but apparently not out of hope. Rather...

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Victory at the Polls: OU Mobilizes New Yorkers To Approve The Smart Schools...

For Election Day 2014, one question before Jewish New York voters was: Do you want New York Jewish day schools and yeshivahs to get tens of millions of dollars from the state for classroom technology?...

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The Ethics of Hiring and Firing

    Starting in late 2007, the United States, together with much of the world, suffered a steep recession. While the economy began to recover in 2009, growth has not translated into new jobs. Two...

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Losing Your Job Without Losing Yourself

By Cary A. Friedman Losing a job is never a pleasant or easy or pleasant experience. A job plays a variety of different roles in our lives. Some of those roles are healthy; others are not. Many people...

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