Simcha Katz

The planned March 10 contested election pitting incumbent Orthodox Union president Simcha Katz against former president Harvey Blitz is not to be. (See “OU Internal Struggles Leading To Showdown,” Jan. 18)

Who’s running the show at the Orthodox Union these days?

The biennial national convention of the Orthodox Union last weekend in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., marked a changing of the organization’s leadership as Simcha Katz, retired head of a technology company he founded two decades ago, was installed as OU president. He succeeds Steven Savitsky.