In solidarity with the State of Israel, its citizens, and OU Israel leadership and staff, 21 OU board members recently participated in a four-day lay leadership mission to Israel.

Groundbreaking research focuses on the experience of food insecurity among kosher consumers in New York City.

The OU’s annual guide to everything you want or need to know about Passover is available to download. Complete with eye-catching graphics, useful charts, engaging features and practical how-to’s, The OU Guide to Passover takes readers from Pesach prep through Sefirat Ha’Omer and everywhere in between.

The past several months have been difficult for all of us, as we have witnessed the horrors of October 7 and the ensuing war, and watched the rise of local antisemitism with dismay. For many, the promise of Pesach is a welcome beacon of hope. But there are many people in our community who anticipate Pesach with dread. Already struggling to keep financially afloat during the rest of the year, the additional costs of Pesach are simply too much. They need your help.

Pesachim for Pesach is a series of videos on various topics in Maseches Pesachim. Topics include commercial kitchen kashering, hafroshas challah, machine matzah controversy, and more! Learn with your favorite maggidei shiur about the Haggadah with All Parsha on the Haggadah.

Download this handy chart to help you keep track of all seven weeks of Sefirat Ha’Omer without missing a night!

Behind cheerfully-painted doors, girls with developmental delays are improving in greater leaps and bounds than ever before – all thanks to the transformative power of the new physio-neuro therapy program at IVDU Girls Elementary in Flatbush.

What profound lesson can we learn from bedikat chametz that is relevant to greeting people in shul?

Listen to all of the Women’s Initiative’s Pesach Ideas and Inspiration programming and sign up for Counting Towards Sinai as we journey to Shavuot through a 40-day audio series.

Discover the heartwarming story behind the West Coast Passover programs led by Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan. Join the celebration, unity, and nourishment of body and soul at UCLA’s JLIC community.

How does one incorporate the ikarei emunah into one’s Seder? What medrashim and scripts can we use to fulfill the mitzvah of sippur yetziyat Mitzrayim? Rabbi Isaac Rice, author of the Haggadah A Night of Teaching, and rav of Anshei Chesed in Long Island and rebbe at SKA, answers these questions and more, in this episode of The Jews Next Dor podcast.

In this episode of the 18Forty podcast, a Haredi mother talks about her two children who serve in the IDF, one of whom was critically wounded in the current war.

What do you do if you’re carrying on Shabbos and you discover that the eiruv is down? Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz explains! Plus, Rabbi Reuven Brand continues the melachos of salad-making, Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon discusses practical issues of borer, and more!

Klal Yisrael is being attacked and challenged from all sides. Some threaten us physically, others attack our moral standing, yet others try to block us from having the resources to protect ourselves.

How are we to understand the unique attributes of the Korban Pesach? Is it an individual offering or a communal one?

There are many well-known pesukim in this week’s Haftorah, pesukim that anchor us in our faith of the end of days.

Enjoy this mixed bag of real-life reader questions, including: How do differences in our lives contribute to success? What does it mean to rebel against God? Why isn’t Samson criticized for killing himself? And what’s up with Balaam’s name?

The acclaimed annual shiur is now available on OU Holidays. If you weren’t able to attend the live event, listen now for insights designed to enhance your Seder experience!

The rabbis said much about lashon hara, but virtually nothing about its corollary, lashon tov, “good speech.” The phrase does not appear in either the Talmud Bavli or the Yerushalmi. If it is a sin to speak badly about people, is it a mitzvah to speak well of them?

There are many steps that we ascend on our journey towards the holiday of Passover. It is as if it is impossible to just plunge into the holiday without proper preparation.

As we turn more and more pages, we begin to realize that the Haggadah is far from an ordered story. Not our usual way of storytelling, it is meta-storytelling. It is retelling how the Exodus has been told before.