OU Live

Welcome to Rachel and Rabbi Daniel Kraus, co-directors of Community Education at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in NYC's UES. We're discussing developing a mission together, pursuing careers apart, raising kids, building community, and making it all work.

Join OU LIVE to hear from special guest Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. We're talking about miracles, surviving Coronoavirus, Eli's Pesach Sheni, second chances, and so much more!

Let's celebrate Lag ba'Omer! After we kick off with a homemade bonfire, we talk to Rabbi Ya'akov Trump (no relation) about some of his innovative projects to help spread the learning of Tanach! Find him online at nachnook.com, download his app, or learn with him on All Daf

Join us for a special episode about using social media for good, featuring some enterprising influencers in the Jewish space! Meir Kay is the master of spreading happiness and positivity, and Arsen Ostrovsky is a digital defender of the State of Israel

Susan Zilberman - Mind Body Eating Coach - fills us in on the emotional underpinnings of eating, and Moshe Kinderlehrer - co-founder of the Jewish Link - shares what it was like to build a Jewish media empire from scratch

This week's super charged line up: Bethany Mandel is back, this time to talk about her recent piece in the Atlantic: Just Give Up on Distance Learning Rabbi Dr Saul Haimoff, the author of Torah and Mental Health, answers: is psychology the "Jewish science?" Why are Jews so obsessed with mental health? and Rabbi Idan Scher and Nikki Shapiro share stories of how the Frozen Chosen of Ottawa transformed their community during the crisis.

Dr Shay Pilnik is the Founder of the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University.

OU LIVE is back from Pesach with a powerful special interview for Yom HaShoa. Dr. Shay Pilnik is the Founder of YU's brand new Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We'll be asking hard questions for a year that's seen a spike in antisemitism: has Holocaust education been successful? How do we know? How will it change? Are we diluting its message?

Dr. Michelle Shain has some surprising findings about who is at risk Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig is taking bold steps to bring mental health conversations into the world of psak and Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg has powerful teachings to share with us from kids fighting cancer