Yom Yerushalayim 37 articles

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Yom Yerushalayim marks the day during the 6 Day War in 1967 on which Jerusalem was reunified and the Kotel and Temple Mount were returned to Jewish hands

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai: Rabbi Weinreb
Parshat Behar-Bechukotai: Rabbi Weinreb
“U’mikdashi Tirau” – “and you shall fear my Temple” (Leviticus 26:2): Yom Yerushalayim in the Parsha. Yom Yerushalayim isn’t just a celebration of a military victory, we celebrate recapturing the holiest...
May 14, 2009
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Capturing the Wall: The Story of Shavuot 1967
Capturing the Wall: The Story of Shavuot 1967
A brilliant flash shattered the darkness. The lonely climber saw in that blink of an eye that he was almost at the top of the peak, and around him a gorgeous...
Jun 4, 2008
By Aaron Hirsh
From Ruin to Renewal
From Ruin to Renewal
Sefirat HaOmer and the Four Days of Remembrance The period of time beginning the second night of Pesach and climaxing forty-nine full days later with the Festival of Shavuot can be...
Jun 26, 2006
By OU Staff
Yerushalayim: The Physical & The Spiritual (1997)
Let’s Open Our Sefarim This Yom Yerushalayim   Yerushalayim – The Physical & The Spiritual- presented by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union. This shiur...
May 18, 2006
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh
Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh
Is the Israeli government – and are we – really determined as Am Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael to retain all of Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh? Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh- presented by Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, Rabbi...
May 18, 2006
By Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld
The Rav’s Zt”l Philosophy on Religious Zionism
The Rav’s Zt”l Philosophy on Religious Zionism
The Rav’s Zt’l Philosophy on Religious Zionism – presented by Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, rosh yeshiva and professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University’s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem....
May 18, 2006
By Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem – presented by Rabbi Sholom Gold, Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of West Hempstead and the Rabbi of Beit Knesset Zichron Yaakov in Har Nof. This...
May 18, 2006
By Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold

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