Learning the secrets of the Torah while hiding in a cave, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son drew down the light of Hashem into themselves to embody the Torah. Similarly, we must work to make ...

In 1956, Rav Moshe Feinstein, the preeminent American halachic authority of the second half of the 20 th century, received a fascinating question. There was a group of Orthodox Jews who refused to ...

First, is it permitted to have regular milk products (Chalav Akum) at all, or are there some leniencies regarding these issues? Second, if there is no heter what is the halacha if the Chalav Yisrael ...

Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Yosef Braun of Crown Heights Beis Din issued a scathing new letter, reminding the public that they have forbidden the use of the independently built Crown Heights Eruv.

As soon as news broke that the Food and Drug Administration was suspending federal testing of commercially produced milk, the Orthodox Union’s hotline lit up. The flood of inquiries was “off the hook ...