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Yom NCSY featured in the Jewish Link of New...
More than 1,500 teens from every OU/NCSY summer program come together at Bar-Ilan University to celebrate the magic of unity and being in Israel. Each program wears different colored t-shirts with...
Aug 4, 2016
By Banji Ganchrow
Why Being an Orthodox Jewish Mom Makes Me a...
360i CEO Sarah Hofstetter is not your typical ‘ad man.’ When 360i, the ad agency I run, won Oscar Mayer’s business in 2010, I politely declined their invitation to sample products...
Jul 26, 2016
By Sarah Hofstetter
What is the Jewish View on Ghosts?
What is the Jewish View on Ghosts?
The Ghostbusters franchise has come back from the dead, raising questions on what Judaism teaches about ghosts. According to the Torah, do ghosts haunt our society, crossing over from the dead...
Jul 20, 2016
By Rabbi Gil Student
NBA Star Omri Casspi posts Instagram photo wearing Tefillin
  NBA star Omri Casspi posted the most amazing shot of himself in prayer on Instagram. “In the past few days I had the privilege of meeting Rabbi Yakov Ades, a...
Jul 12, 2016
By OU Staff
Too Much, Too Fast: Personal Trainer Alan Freishtat Weighs...
A few years ago, a father brought his teenage son into my office for a conversation.  Yehuda was in Yeshiva out of town and he was class 3 obese.  At age...
Jul 7, 2016
By Alan Freishtat
#3 – We’re Almost There: Living with Patience, Perseverance...
Reflections and insights on the transformational life of Elie Wiesel z’l. In particular, he discusses “having issues with faith & with G-d” and battling and struggling with G-d himself. In the...
Jul 6, 2016
By Rabbi Dovid Cohen
#2 – We’re Almost There: Living with Patience, Perseverence...
Rabbi Cohen speaks about graduation addresses including those of Mohamed Ali, Robert Kraft and Sheryl Sandberg.  He then interviews Jesse Itzler about his new book-“Living with a Seal.”  Jesse is a...
Jun 28, 2016
By Rabbi Dovid Cohen
An Important Message from HaRav Asher Weiss
Watch as HaRav Weiss shlit”a tells the incredible story of his father’s survival through the horror of the Shoah and how that led to a life of helping his fellow Jew....
Jun 20, 2016
By OU Staff
How Do We Achieve Jewish Unity?
You Don’t Have to Like Everyone, But You Must Love Them On June 6, over 2,000 people attended the Boca Raton Jewish community Unity Day Event. These remarks were delivered there. “Can...
Jun 15, 2016
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
Savitsky Talks: An Interview with Rabbi Menachem Genack
In this episode of Savitsky Talks, Steven Savitsky talks with Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of OU Kosher, about his relationship with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky z’tl and the role of the posek...
Jun 7, 2016
By Steven Savitsky

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