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Rav Leff Learning Torah Goes Viral
Rav Zev Leff of Moshav Matityahu became an Internet sensation when a stadium camera caught him studying Torah at the Israel-Scotland game in Glasgow. Rabbi Leff was visiting his daughter, Rebbetzin Sarah
Nov 25, 2018
By OU Staff
Nazi Salute Students Will Not Be Punished
Nazi Salute Students Will Not Be Punished
A recent viral photo showed a group of male students from the Baraboo school district in Wisconsin headed to prom. Many of the teens had their right arms extended in
Nov 25, 2018
By OU Staff
Sarsour Apologizes for Women’s March Anti-Semitism
Linda Sarsour has released a statement apologizing on behalf of the Women’s March for the movement being too slow to show its commitment to fighting anti-Semitism. The organization has come
Nov 21, 2018
By OU Staff
New Congressperson Moves to Overturn 181-Year-Old House Ban on...
Ilhan Omar, a newly-elected Congressperson from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to the House of Representatives, is a co-authoring a proposal to overturn
Nov 20, 2018
By OU Staff
Slate of Nominees: Orthodox Union Board of Directors
To be presented at the Biennial Convention, Sunday, December 30th 2018 at Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, NJ President Mark (Moishe) Bane Chairman, Board of Directors Howard
Nov 19, 2018
By OU Staff
Convicted Neo-Nazi was Jerusalem Yeshiva Student
Adam Thomas, a British neo-Nazi who was convicted of membership in a banned group, was once a student at a Jerusalem yeshiva. According to the London-based Jewish Chronicle, Thomas studied
Nov 14, 2018
By OU Staff
Synagogue Rebuilt 80 Years After Kristallnacht
Built in 1896, Koenigsberg’s New Synagogue was one of Europe’s largest and most impressive Jewish houses of worship. Much to the local Jewish population’s dismay, it was destroyed in the Kristallnacht
Nov 12, 2018
By OU Staff
California Wildfires Damage Shuls, Camps, School
The fires raging across Southern California, which have led to the evacuation of more than 260,000 people, have also destroyed more than 170 homes and damaged several Jewish institutions, including
Nov 12, 2018
By OU Staff
Did an Intergalactic Probe Visit Our Solar System? Israeli Researchers Say “Maybe!”
Did an Intergalactic Probe Visit Our Solar System? Israeli...
According to a newly-released paper from two Harvard astronomers, Oumuamua, a mysterious, cigar-shaped object that whizzed through our solar system last year, might actually be an alien probe from interstellar space. The authors of
Nov 8, 2018
By OU Staff
Hate Crime Suspect Snatching Shaitels Off Heads in North...
The LAPD are searching for a man who attacked three Orthodox Jewish women in North Hollywood by grabbing or attempting to grab the wigs off their heads. Two of the attacks
Nov 8, 2018
By OU Staff

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