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A Nation’s Loss: National Mourning in the Jewish Tradition
A Nation’s Loss: National Mourning in the Jewish Tradition
Grief is a fundamentally individual, transformative emotion. What can it mean to speak about “national grief, or national mourning”? Is there any calamity which a nation suffers that so alters its...
Aug 2, 2011
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Gratitude to Greece
Gratitude to Greece
OU LETTERS TO GREEK OFFICIALS, INCLUDING PRIME MINISTER, EXPRESS GRATITUDE FOR PREVENTING SHIPS TO GAZA FROM LEAVING GREEK PORTS AND WATERS The Orthodox Union has sent letters of gratitude to three...
Jul 13, 2011
By OU Public Relations
Shelach: Moving to Israel
Shelach: Moving to Israel
In our parsha, the spies were punished for not showing sufficient desire to enter Eretz Yisrael. Let us study one of the many halakhot which express the importance of moving here....
Jun 16, 2011
By Asher Meir
Touched by a Landing
Touched by a Landing
In a two-fold miracle, the grave danger of an El Al Boeing 777 is known to all but its occupants.
Jun 1, 2011
By Michael J. Elman
A Pauper at the Wall
A Pauper at the Wall
A pauper……is a very poor person without means of support, a person who lives upon the charity of the community. The difference between a pauper and a beggar is this: The...
May 24, 2011
By Joyce Schur
Yom Yerushalayim: A Look Back
Yom Yerushalayim: A Look Back
I came to Israel one month after the Six Day War, as a teenager with an Instamatic camera, Kodak slide film, a burgeoning love of photography and total awe for the...
May 24, 2011
By Toby Klein Greenwald
Yom Haatzmaut – Dayenu!
Yom Haatzmaut – Dayenu!
Just Glad to Be Living in Israel Living most of my life in the United States, I knew Israel’s independence was not something to take for granted, and indeed to be...
May 11, 2011
By Yonatan Ben-Natan
The Encyclopedia and the Kotel
The Encyclopedia and the Kotel
In 1968, in the wake of the Six-Day War, we registered for the Rabbinical Council of America summer tour of the Holy Land. We arranged for our youngest daughter to stay...
May 4, 2011
By Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
Tehillim K’neged Tillim
I’m taking a course on Yerushalayim – its history, its people, and, of course, its sites. Today, as part of our studies about the War of Liberation, we toured Har Adar,...
May 4, 2011
By Debbie Shapiro
OU Israel Remembers the Fogel Family
OU Israel Remembers the Fogel Family
דברי הצומות וזעקתם – אסתר ט לא Monday morning, 10 AM. I barely find the strength to open the OU Israel staff meeting that I had scheduled two weeks earlier. Images...
Mar 23, 2011
By Rabbi Avi Berman & Netanel Siman Tov

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