OpEd

The Orthodox community has been in a panic about the recent news that observant teenagers are texting on Shabbos. However, we must address a much greater life-and-death concern. The National Transportation Safety Board just issued a sweeping recommendation to ban the use of mobile phones while driving. Even though distracted drivers cause thousands of accidents […]

In a Pennsylvania town where I lived for more than eight years, a small, struggling Orthodox community fights to remain viable. Market conditions and lack of certain amenities such as a kosher restaurant and eruv [ritual enclosure to allow carrying on Shabbat] cut into the fiber of this once tight knit stitch. Yet, there is […]