(JTA) – Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit the New York region in March, the Orthodox community was on edge. A surge in anti-Semitic incidents targeting visibly Orthodox Jews climaxed with an attack in which a man was killed by a machete at a Hanukkah party in December. Then the virus hit, forcing the closure…
Millions of dollars that could help Jewish private schools pay for transportation and tutoring are in limbo because of a political fight between Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives over whether the money should support all students or just those who are poor. The dispute concerns $13.5 billion in federal dollars…
Imagine a world with kosher bacon. It may be here sooner than you think. Rabbi Gavriel Price has the difficult task of determining how the Orthodox Union should approve “clean meat,” which is meat grown in laboratories from animal cells, the New York Times reported. The Orthodox Union is one of the leading certifiers of…
Jewish advocates mulled boycotting Orthodox Union products leading up to Shabbat after the organization honored Attorney General Jeff Session’s while he was under fire from progressive groups for the Trump administration’s policies separating immigrant families. The Orthodox Union said they “took advantage of a private opportunity” before his Leadership Mission keynote address on June 13…
On Wednesday, June 13th, members from the Orthodox Union’s policy and advocacy team met with several legislators and key federal administrators in Washington D.C. One of those administrators was US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man who is singularly responsible for the horrible treatment of undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers. I am shocked and upset by…
The Orthodox Union has a branding problem. This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at their Advocacy Center’s annual Leadership Mission, amid protests over the policy, which Sessions created and presides over, of separating masses of children from their parents at the United States border. At the OU conference, Sessions enthusiastically endorsed the Supreme Court’s…
In As An Orthodox Rabbi, The SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Gives Me Pause, Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg objects to the Orthodox Union’s favorable stance toward the Supreme Court’s recent decision, in which the Court ruled that a bakery was not in violation of law for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. Greenberg,…
(JTA – More than 2,000 people came to Citi Field in New York on Sunday — not to root on the Mets, but to revel in Jewish learning. Some 38 internationally renowned scholars led classes on traditional and contemporary Jewish topics at the Orthodox Union’s second annual Torah New York. The event, which the O.U. says…
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