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The First Airship (Part 1)
A Lesson For the Children – “Oh, if only somebody would invent an airship,” one woman said. “Forget it, that is a pipe dream for crazy people,” her friend replied. And...
Aug 22, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
![Why We Learn Gemara](https://www.ou.org/life/files/studying-shtender.jpg)
Why We Learn Gemara
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS president, Don Harper Mills, astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a...
Aug 16, 2007
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
![The Numbers Man](https://www.ou.org/life/files/numbers.jpg)
The Numbers Man
“I’m a numbers man,” he said the first time I met him, “Always have been, always will be. I live by the numbers. If you want to know what I think...
Aug 8, 2007
By Joyce Schur
![Donation and Reward](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Mother-and-Baby.jpg)
Donation and Reward
A Lesson For the Children – A large crowd filled the small “Har Tzvi” Synagogue in the Geula section of Jerusalem. The neighborhood and the population grew steadily, and many of...
Aug 8, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
![The Colors of Black and White: A Jewish Woman’s Journey to Christianity and Back](https://www.ou.org/life/files/dana-Mase.jpg)
The Colors of Black and White: A Jewish Woman’s...
Top 20 Billboard recording artist Dana Mase’s career spanning collection – The Colors of Black and White (Water Records/UFO Music) was recently released and will be available in stores in the...
Aug 2, 2007
By Dana Mase
![Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Temple-Mount1-e1445944601205.jpg)
Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea
Parashat Va’etchanan and Erev Tisha B’Av 5767 I am writing this on the eighth of Av, after descending from two hours on Har Habayit – the Temple Mount, following immersing in...
Jul 26, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
![Painless History Lessons](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Pile-of-Books.jpg)
Painless History Lessons
History is one of those subjects students distaste—dry, monotonous, meaningless dates and places, just the thing that makes school so tedious. Yet recently the students of the Sussia Ecological High School...
Jul 19, 2007
By Leah Abramowitz
![An Instantaneous Verdict](https://www.ou.org/life/files/scales.jpg)
An Instantaneous Verdict
Holy and Secular – The King was weary, frustrated, and humiliated. His beloved son had started a revolution against him. Now he was forced to flee from the palace in Jerusalem....
Jul 12, 2007
By Rabbi Amichai Gordin
![Fiery Speeches](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Fireworks.jpeg)
Fiery Speeches
The basic history is true; embellishments have been made for your reading pleasure. Two thousand years ago, deep in the Lanzhou Province of China, a crew of twelve men tended the...
Jul 11, 2007
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
![The Meaning of Survivorship](https://www.ou.org/life/files/breast-cancer-e1445875555226.jpg)
The Meaning of Survivorship
Let me set the scene. I was recently at a survivor breakfast for Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s national affiliate conference. All the women in the room were breast cancer...
Jul 10, 2007
By Miriam S. May
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