STRENGTHENING CANADIAN-AMERICAN TRADE RELATIONS: OU KOSHER IS DOING ITS PART Close both in proximity and culture, Canadian and American businesses have long enjoyed excellent trade relationships. Looking to build on this history, OU Kosher, a New York based not-for-profit, is helping Canadian businesses increase exports to the U.S. at the same time as it cooperates
Junior at Stella K. Abraham H.S. for Girls Elbow patches, riding boots, oxfords, and maxi skirts. There are times that I look at the hallways in school and I am amazed at the way my classmates put together outfits that are just as easily modest as they are fashionable. Ever since starting high school in
Hart Levine, founder and director of The Heart to Heart Project– a program in partnership with OU Collegiate Engagement — was a leading nominee to be named the 2011 Jewish Community Hero. The winner of the third annual online campaign, a project of The Jewish Federations of North America, will be announced on Wednesday, December
by Howard Schultz The chairman of Starbucks learns about life from Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt"l. Nov. 8, 2011 – The Jewish world is plunged into mourning with the untimely passing of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir in Jerusalem. I grew up in federally subsidized housing in Brooklyn. I was part
Written by Rochelle Maruch Miller Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:52 Much has been written about the shidduch situation. The number of singles who sincerely want to get married but who have not found their respective lifetime partners is staggering. A team of noted experts may have discovered a solution for what is possibly the
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION JOINS OU JOB BOARD LIST OF COMPANIES LOOKING TO HIRE The Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia) is the newest employer to post job openings on the OU Job Board | Employment and Resumé Opportunities. It joins a variety of organizations (including Fortune 500 companies) among the
Groups still coming to help with Nashville flood cleanup Latest volunteers are Jewish teens from New Jersey Written by Julie Hubbard 5:06 PM, Nov. 9, 2011 Volunteers from across the country continue to visit Nashville to help with cleanup from widespread flooding that happened more than a year ago. A delegation of Jewish teenagers from
November 01, 2011 OU West Coast: Dr. Pelcovitz on ‘Raising a Mentch’ OU WEST COAST ADDRESSES ‘PSYCHOLOGY OF RAISING A MENTCH,’ FEATURING DR. DAVID PELCOVITZ OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY The OU West Coast Region, based in Los Angeles, presented Dr. David Pelcovitz, Straus Professor of Psychology and Education at Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School, for an
David Olivestone, editor of the small, popular booklet, added that it was a "great privilege for us at the OU and NCSY to be able to help our troops celebrate Shabbat and Yom Tov, and to bolster their observance of Judaism in this way." >> Read More