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The Charedi Public Party says it will protect full-time Torah study while supporting military or national service for ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshivahs, address math and English instruction in haredi schools.
Destruction of the Badr Unit’s underground command network gives Israel a “physical, not just diplomatic” card to hold in any negotiation, former IDF officer tells JNS.
Sandra Bell alleged that Rabbi Netanel Louie tore up her signs during a 2022 protest against kapparot, a Jewish atonement ritual involving the slaughter of chickens before Yom Kippur, outside his Woodland Hills synagogue.
A Combat Antisemitism Movement analysis found that the 16-page resource instructs students on discussing Gaza and Palestinian advocacy while neglecting key historical context and leaving antisemitism undefined.
The scholarly study found a dominant narrative that placed “near-exclusive agency and responsibility” on Israel while downplaying Hamas’s role in the conflict.
The arrest of Muein al-Arabid in the heart of Gaza City is a strategic message underscoring that Israel is not returning to full-scale war, but is also not allowing Hamas to exploit the ceasefire to rebuild its military capabilities.
Destruction of the Badr Unit’s underground command network gives Israel a “physical, not just diplomatic” card to hold in any negotiation, former IDF officer tells JNS.
A film that makes dubious claims about the IDF slaughtering Palestinian civilians may help bolster an antisemitic trope blaming the Jews for a new global threat.
Must Israel be constrained by moral, strategic and political considerations when confronted by an enemy that deliberately strikes civilians in the most brutal way?
The Charedi Public Party says it will protect full-time Torah study while supporting military or national service for ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshivahs, address math and English instruction in haredi schools.
“During this moment of spiking antisemitism, Jews can take a measure of comfort in recalling to ourselves and to all Americans how Hebraic ideas have helped shape American political language,” Rabbi Stu Halpern, of Yeshiva University, told JNS.
40 years after Chabad sent its first emissary to the region, communities once centered on travelers and business people are building schools, mikvahs and cemeteries for Jews who have come to stay.
“Judaism and fashion are completely interwoven from the streets of Seventh Avenue in New York City to the streets of Tel Aviv,” Tobi Rubinstein, an event co-host, told JNS.
The Charedi Public Party says it will protect full-time Torah study while supporting military or national service for ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshivahs, address math and English instruction in haredi schools.
‘Nobody can replace him,’ Jewish leaders say, marking year since death of OU executive Rabbi Moshe Hauer
“I miss his curiosity,” Sheila Katz of the Federation told JNS. “His genuine, non-judgmental curiosity about what makes each of us human.”
Rabbi Josh Joseph, CEO of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
(Sept. 16, 2026 / JNS)
Some 150 people gathered at the Orthodox Union’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday to mark the first yahrzeit, the one-year anniversary of the death of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the umbrella group’s former executive vice president. Speakers remembered the late OU leader as a mentor, teacher, friend and communal leader, whose influence extended well beyond his denomination.
“Nobody can replace him,” Sheila Katz, chief Jewish life officer at the Jewish Federations of North America, told attendees. “He was a giant mentor, who never made anyone feel small.”
The former CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, Katz told JNS that she misses Hauer’s “calm, moral presence.”
She recalled working alongside the rabbi after Oct. 7 in meetings with Jewish leaders, government officials and others.
Merrick Garland, then the U.S. attorney general who is Jewish, would ask at meetings with Jewish leaders if anyone had any Torah teachings to share. Hauer would encourage Katz to speak up and said that “we all had Torah to teach,” she told JNS.
Sheila Katz, chief Jewish life officer at the Jewish Federations of North America, speaks at an Orthodox Union memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
“I miss his curiosity,” Katz said. “His genuine, non-judgmental curiosity about what makes each of us human.”
Katz told JNS that she asked Hauer, jokingly, what his superpower would be. She would have opted for “flight or transportation.” Hauer said his would be “Torah,” she told JNS.
“I imagined myself in a pink superhero costume, and Rabbi Hauer exactly as he was, holding a Torah,” Katz said. The late rabbi lived out his “superhero dream” by doing what made him “uniquely a force for good in a broken world,” she said.
Mitchel Aeder, president of the OU, also addressed the gathering, which drew another 200 people to a livestream. Rabbi Shlomo Hauer also spoke in person at the event and thanked attendees and the OU for the ways that they memorialized his father.
“Everyone who had a relationship with Rabbi Hauer, zt”l, has spent the past year reflecting on the impact he had on our lives,” Aeder told JNS, using an abbreviation in Hebrew that means, “may the memory of the righteous man be for a blessing.”
“Our gathering was another reminder of the privilege we had to be elevated in our personal lives, our service to the Jewish community and our commitment to Torah through our interactions with him,” the OU president told JNS.
Rabbi Josh Joseph, the new Orthodox Union CEO, and Rabbi Shmuel Silber, the OU’s new executive vice president, also spoke at the event.
First yarzheit of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the late Orthodox Union executive
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Rabbi Shmuel Silber, the new executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.
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Mitchel Aeder, president of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.
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Mitchel Aeder, president of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Shmuel Silber (left), the new executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Shmuel Silber, the new executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Shlomo Hauer speaks at an Orthodox Union memorial service for his father, the late OU leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer, in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Josh Joseph, CEO of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Josh Joseph, CEO of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.
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Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger, of Yeshiva University, speaks at an Orthodox Union memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Shlomo Hauer speaks at an Orthodox Union memorial service for his father, the late OU leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer, in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Credit: Gary Magder/OU.
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Rabbi Josh Joseph, CEO of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.
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Rabbi Josh Joseph, CEO of the Orthodox Union, speaks at an OU memorial service for its late leader Rabbi Moshe Hauer in New York City, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo by Rebecca Szlechter.
Joseph told JNS that Hauer’s impact could be seen in the number of people who came to remember him.
“Each person came over saying, ‘This is my story, this is my story’,” he said.
Hauer was “a leader, a mentor, a friend, a brother,” according to Joseph, who described the late rabbi as his “big brother.”
“He always pushed everybody,” Joseph said. “You didn’t always have to agree.”
Aeder said, of Hauer, at the event that “he made me better at my job, even when we disagreed.” The late rabbi was the “ideas guy,” who always looked for ways to do more. “He wanted to do everything,” Aeder said.
The late rabbi’s son told attendees that his father made a point of giving positive feedback. “This is the way my father lived, literally,” he said.
“You can’t fill his shoes,” Joseph told JNS, of the late rabbi.
“We need all of these people to take his blessings and pass them on,” he added, of the event attendees.
