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Want to Stop Sibling Rivalry? Stop Comparing Your Children
In this week’s parsha we read about Yosef and his brothers. My heart always goes out to Yosef after his beloved mother Rachel died. It is so hard to be without...
Dec 2, 2015
By Adina Soclof
Five Things Every Couple Needs to Know About Giving
When done right, gifts can be an expression of love and caring and can bring a couple closer together. Yet, gifts can often be a sore point and can produce the...
Dec 2, 2015
By Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin
Mourning Terror in Israel and France
The recent attacks in Paris were ferocious. We join the world in mourning the loss of life and praying for their families as well as for the recovery of the injured....
Dec 2, 2015
By Rabbi Daniel Friedman
President Obama Calls Parents of Ezra Schwartz Z’l
From the JTA. President Barack Obama called the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18-year-old American student murdered last week in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank, to offer his condolences....
Nov 24, 2015
By OU Staff
Watch: A Moment of Silence for Ezra Schwartz z”l
Chills.Amazing moment at Gillette Stadium as the New England Patriots honored Ezra Schwartz with a moment of silence. Thank you Robert Kraft and to ESPN for broadcasting this incredible tribute. Posted...
Nov 24, 2015
By OU Staff
The Tragic Burial of the Poile Zedek Torah Scrolls
The Tragic Burial of the Poile Zedek Torah Scrolls
Photos courtesy of Jay Pea Productions. I had the opportunity to attend the funeral of Torah scrolls and other religious articles that were burned during the recent tragic fire at Congregation...
Nov 23, 2015
By Josh Pruzansky
Celebrating Thanksgiving Each & Every Day
Celebrating Thanksgiving Each & Every Day
Was it President Lincoln in 1863, President Washington in 1789, or the Pilgrims themselves in 1622? While historians may debate when the holiday of Thanksgiving was first instituted, the practice of...
Nov 23, 2015
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
Je Ne Suis Pas Paris (I’m Not Paris)
Je Ne Suis Pas Paris (I’m Not Paris)
I don’t particularly care for France. Some people think it’s a really bad time for me to make that declaration, given the recent tragedy of the coordinated terror attacks in Paris,...
Nov 18, 2015
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Yachad Israel Brings Joy (and Pizza) to Army Bases...
On November 10, members of an Israeli army base came face-to-face with people they were protecting in Israel. And their grateful visitors even brought them pizza. The visit was organized and...
Nov 12, 2015
By OU Staff
New Sculpture in Brooklyn Asks: Yo or Oy?
Tablet Magazine has the story: Deborah Kass, a modern artist whose works often produce their meanings by re-imagining the style of Andy Warhol, for one, (also Gertrude Stein and Jackson Pollack) has...
Nov 11, 2015
By OU Staff

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