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The annual report of the Community Security Trust (CST), the UK’s largest watchdog organization for anti-Semitism, has reported a 3% increase in the number of anti-Semitic attacks in 2017. At

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the draft of a Polish bill proposing to make it illegal to accuse Poles of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust. The bill, an amendment

In light of recent precipitation, Rabbi David Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, has called for a cessation of the public prayer for rain. The prayer Va’aneinu Borei Olam (Answer us,

Peter Briess was one of the few to escape the clutches of the Nazis after they occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Three months later his father secured exit visas for

The Orthodox Union, the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the Orthodox Jewish community, today announced the creation of the Department of Women’s Initiatives to coordinate all of the

Contact: Rebbetzin Judi Steinig, Associate Director, Community Services, Orthodox Union, steinigj@ou.org; 212-613-8188 Avital Levin, LMSW, Director of Education, Shalom Task Force. 212-742-1478 ext. 2, avitalslevin@shalomtaskforce.org. The Orthodox Union and Shalom

Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Allen Fagin joined OU-JLIC’s Summer in Jerusalem program this past Sunday in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. The program, now in its

On an unusually warm day in late February, Shari Dym, an administrator at Silver Academy, a Jewish day school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into emergency mode. When the alarms went

In June of 2013, I did something unprecedented in my life; I agreed to staff a Birthright-Israel trip, which would separate me from my wife and 20-month old daughter for

The excitement surrounding a forthcoming event is proving that bike riding for a cause can be a rewarding and attainable experience, for even the least experienced and youngest riders. The