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Armed With Love – NCSY Summer 2014
Armed With Love – NCSY Summer 2014
Shoshana and Dr. Yitzchok Schechter heard about Hamas’s rampant rocket attacks while driving their daughter to the airport. Ayelet, 15, was flying to Israel for NCSY’s Michlelet program. Their son, Yoni,...
Aug 6, 2014
By Bayla Sheva Brenner
Why we Want to be Here – a Message...
This article originally appeared on Jpost.com. Upon learning that we would be released next week – a month after our emergency call-up to fight this war – my reserve unit drafted...
Aug 6, 2014
By OU Staff
IDF Soldier Kidnapped, Family Calls for Prayer
Shortly after a cease fire in Gaza commenced this morning, Hamas operatives entered Israeli territory and attacked IDF soldiers, killing two and kidnapping 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, age 23 (source: Ha’aretz)....
Aug 1, 2014
By OU Staff
Rabbi Weinreb’s Journal: OU Solidarity Mission to Israel 2014
Thursday, July 24 Chavi and I arrived on El Al. The flight was full, and the landing was fine and secure, baruch Hashem. Friday, July 25 We went to OU Israel,...
Jul 29, 2014
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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
Reports from Israel: The OU Solidarity Mission
The Orthodox Union’s Solidarity Mission to Israel, led by Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb and Rabbi Steven Weil, was well received at the many different visits they made. Below you’ll find reports...
Jul 25, 2014
By OU Staff
A Family That Prays Together…
The Orthodox Union, the Rabbinical Council of America, the National Council of Young Israel and Yeshiva University invite shuls, members, friends, students, alumni, and the entire Jewish community, to join in...
Jul 24, 2014
By OU Staff
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
OU Solidarity Mission to Israel: Join Rabbi Steven Weil...
Solidarity Mission to Israel to Show our Support Thursday, July 24 – Monday, July 28, 2014 Join us as we embark on a solidarity mission–from this Thursday Evening through Tuesday morning–that...
Jul 21, 2014
By OU Staff

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