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The Miracle Called Nature
The Miracle Called Nature
Imagine that I am running a Torah organization, and funds are tight. Things are so bad that it looks like we might have to close down. I decide to take action,...
Jul 29, 2014
By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
Summer Vacation in Israel Canceled…for Torah
Reposted from The Jerusalem Post online. The major hassidic groups in Israel will not run the usual summer vacation programs for students from the Fast of the Ninth of Av to...
Jul 29, 2014
By Jeremy Sharon
Chaveirim Kol Yisroel – Maintaning the Incredible Unity in...
Reposted with permission from rabbisblog.brsonline.org. Sgt. Eviyatar Moshe Torjamin was only twenty years old. He was a student at Yeshivat Ha’Kotel, a hesder yeshiva in the Old City of Yerushalayim that...
Jul 29, 2014
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
The Difference Between Emunah and Bitachon
The Difference Between Emunah and Bitachon
Reprinted with permission from TheShmuz.com. The Rambam defines emunah as the knowledge that Hashem created and continues to run all of Creation. In Shemoneh Perakima, he delineates the first of the...
Jul 24, 2014
By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
Pledge to End the “R” Word
Three teen leaders recently turned a summer Sunday in Toronto into an opportunity for public advocacy, raising awareness on the importance of changing our language—specifically the slurred use of the word...
Jul 24, 2014
By Batya Rosner
The Family I Never Knew: My Jewish Genealogy Journey
The Family I Never Knew: My Jewish Genealogy Journey
My mother, a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, a Death March, the sole survivor of her immediate family, returned her precious neshama to Hashem on the morning of the 12th of Tammuz....
Jul 24, 2014
By Bayla Sheva Brenner
Max Steinberg ז”ל: A Hero Who Rekindled the Zionist...
Jerusalem, July 23: An estimated 30,000 Israelis from all over the country paid their respects to Max Steinberg ז”ל who was buried in Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl military cemetery today. He was...
Jul 23, 2014
By Zvi Volk
Rabbi Weinreb: A Spiritual Response in a Time of...
This past week, OU Executive Vice President emeritus Rabbi Dr, Tzvi Hersh Weinreb addressed the Jewish community of Miami Beach in the third of a series of speeches given in the...
Jul 18, 2014
By OU Staff
Singles and Sanity: The How We Treat Shidduchim Crisis
Singles and Sanity: The How We Treat Shidduchim Crisis
Rebecca Rosen is carefully perusing the cereal shelves in her local supermarket. Bran flakes versus life cereal? These little routines help her take her mind off the difficult period her and...
Jul 17, 2014
By Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Wedding Games
Tis’ the season to get married… Yep, it’s wedding season, so in the spirit of holy matrimony, here’s a catalog of predictable personalities and the games they often play at the...
Jul 17, 2014
By Doni Joszef

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