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They come in assorted shapes, sizes, and colors. Male and female. Jews and non-Jews. Young and middle-age. Quiet and talkative. Religious and non-religious. The common denominator is that they all come...

… with folded pink dinner napkins perched daintily on their heads. That presents an ‘interesting’ mental image, doesn’t it? My wife and I recently took our kids to spend a weekend...

I like to think of them as the “bad” boys and girls of Eilat, a group of Israeli friends who tend to be in their late twenties and early thirties with...

I have been living in Israel close to ten years and have read and reread that biblical command spoken to Abraham, but I confess that I have not spent enough time...

The title of this post is a statement made by US Ambassador to Israel Richard H. Jones yesterday after touring several overcrowded Jerusalem neighborhoods. I pulled it from a Jerusalem Post...

This past Shabbat I thought about the story of the rabbi’s wife who did not divulge to her husband on Shabbat that their child had passed away, in order not to...

Land of My Birth – In 5643 (1883), one year after the beginning of the First Aliyah, the Chovevei Tzion organization in Poland established what was at the time the northernmost...

Throughout history many walls and fences have been built: The Great Wall of China, the electrified fences of the concentration camps and ghettos, the electrified wall between East and West Berlin,...

Planet Sderot: OU Israel Visits the Embattled City Last week, after a particularly harrowing weekend in Sderot, I walked into work and immediately noticed a look on Rabbi Avi Berman, the...

Parashat Ki Tisa 5768 Were it necessary to designate parashat Ki Tisa by one word, I would choose “embarrassment” – embarrassment caused by the avoda zara performed by many of the...