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Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Exercise?: Learning to Run on High
Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Exercise?: Learning...
Reconciling the soul-body split.
Feb 2, 2012
By Pesach Sommer
Jewish Action Sparks a Remarkable Act of Chesed: Rabbi Donates His Kidney to a Mother of Three (Audio)
Jewish Action Sparks a Remarkable Act of Chesed: Rabbi...
How do you thank someone for saving your life? Steve Savitsky talks with kidney donor Rabbi Ari Sytner.
Feb 1, 2012
By Steven Savitsky
“Hello, Omaha power company? Would It be Alright if I String Wires So We Can Carry on Saturday?”
“Hello, Omaha power company? Would It be Alright if...
After 100 years of no carrying on Shabbat, Omaha gets an eruv.
Jan 26, 2012
By Rabbi Jonathan Gross
A Firebombing in the Night: The Attack on a Rutherford Synagogue
A Firebombing in the Night: The Attack on a...
When I first heard about the firebomb attack early Wednesday morning on Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, NJ, it sent shock waves through me and produced deep and heartfelt emotions
Jan 19, 2012
By OU Staff
Rosh Chodesh: A Lesson in Renewal
Rosh Chodesh: A Lesson in Renewal
The Jewish nation is like the moon: when we are at our smallest, downtrodden and humiliated, we are only preparing to be reborn.
Jan 12, 2012
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
This Year’s Best Chanukah Gift: Life
Inspired by a Jewish Action story, one man decides to donate his kidney to a mother of three
Dec 23, 2011
By Yakira Apfel
Spinning Tops: What Dreidels Can Teach Us About God and Miracles
Spinning Tops: What Dreidels Can Teach Us About God...
Just as the dreidel spins around a central point and topples when it begins to lose its connection to that point, so too do we begin to “lose our footing” when...
Dec 21, 2011
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Chanukah: Not Just A Children’s Holiday
Chanukah: Not Just A Children’s Holiday
Dreidel-spinning, doughnut-eating and gift-giving have seemed to transform Chanukah into a holiday for the youngsters. But, in fact, inside Chanukah and the triumph of the Macabees lies the key to "know...
Dec 19, 2011
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
OU Rabbis Address Your Pressing Halachic Questions (Video)
How does a Shabbat-observant Jew run an Internet business? What is tzniut? Do weddings cost too much? Can I invite an intermarried relative for a Shabbat meal? Find out.
Dec 16, 2011
By Panel
Modern Orthodoxy at a Crossroads (Audio)
Modern Orthodoxy at a Crossroads (Audio)
Recent events may have created an irreversible rift in the Modern Orthodox community. Steve Savitsky talks with Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein.
Dec 14, 2011
By Stephen Savitsky

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