Israel 552 articles

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...

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...

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....

In a two-fold miracle, the grave danger of an El Al Boeing 777 is known to all but its occupants.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...