Chava Zenilman, Hadas Loewenstern, Dana Cohen, and Galit Vizel represent the resilience and faith of IDF widows who have lost husbands in recent conflicts in...

Amidst the Israel-Gaza conflict, a surge in miluimot – women with children whose husbands are serving in the IDF as reservists – has been noted, with increas...

Orthodox Jewish comedians have been using humor to uplift spirits in the face of rising anti-Semitism and conflict in Israel, with comics like Eli Lebowicz a...

Rabbi Shoshan Ghoori, the director of OU Koshers Latin America client relations, travels to South American factories to inspect and connect them to the Jewis...

Rabbi Yisroel Hollander, the senior rabbinic representative of Europe for OU Kosher, describes a typical week in his life, which involves traveling to variou...

Phyllis Koegel, the marketing director of OU Kosher, has been instrumental in bringing kosher certification to over 2,000 new brands and 250,000 new products...

Soft matzah, although not new, has become more commercially available in recent years. While traditional hard matzah has the appearance of chametz flatbreads...

The tradition of shaping challah into various forms for Rosh Hashanah originated in Ukraine. The round challah symbolizes long life and Hashem's unity, while...

The tradition of eating sufganiyot during Chanukah in Israel is deeply ingrained, with a myth connecting them to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden despite n...

The emergence of the potato latke, a staple of Chanukah celebrations today, is a relatively recent development dating back to the nineteenth century in Easte...