![When the Yemenite Pioneers Arrived in Jerusalem](https://www.ou.org/life/files/saana-yemen.jpg)
When the Yemenite Pioneers Arrived in Jerusalem
Land of My Birth – The exiled people in Yemen never forgot Jerusalem. Throughout history, small numbers of people kept coming to Eretz Yisrael, with the goal of living in the...
Aug 22, 2007
By Zev Wallack
![Parashat Shoftim: Eradicating God, Hidden Spaces and the Tefillinists](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Erasing-e1445949701516.jpg)
Parashat Shoftim: Eradicating God, Hidden Spaces and the...
Parashat Shoftim 5767 Part One: Eradicating God Part Two: Concealed and Revealed (Hidden Spaces) Part Three: I am not a Zionist Part One: Eradicating God The ritual goes like this: The...
Aug 16, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
![Up on the Hills, Down in the Valleys](https://www.ou.org/life/files/sun-hills-valley-e1445949354928.jpg)
Up on the Hills, Down in the Valleys
It is daybreak and we are in a cloud. White purity lingers over the hills and fine dew settles upon the land. The grapevines and olive trees awake, slowly, immersing themselves...
Aug 16, 2007
By Mendel Jacobson
![To Market, To Market](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Candy.jpg)
To Market, To Market
On a Friday afternoon before the start of Shabbat, the smell of freshly baked rugelach will lure even the most resilient shopper into its lively corridors. Shopkeepers bellowing out last minute...
Aug 8, 2007
By Leah Granof
![Donation and Reward](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Mother-and-Baby.jpg)
Donation and Reward
A Lesson For the Children – A large crowd filled the small “Har Tzvi” Synagogue in the Geula section of Jerusalem. The neighborhood and the population grew steadily, and many of...
Aug 8, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
![The Wanderings of Imbar, the Author of Hatikvah](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Naphtali-Herz-Imber.jpg)
The Wanderings of Imbar, the Author of Hatikvah
Land of My Birth – Even before Naftali Imbar knew how to read and write, the young boy composed rhymes and asked his friend to write them down. As a youth,...
Aug 8, 2007
By Zev Wallack
![Parshat Ekev: Inner Souls and a Rabbis’ Day](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Red-Spiral.jpg)
Parshat Ekev: Inner Souls and a Rabbis’ Day
Parashat Ekev 5767 Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel Part Two: Rabbis’ Day Part One: The Inner Soul of Israel The Torah declares that the land of Eretz Yisrael is kadosh...
Aug 2, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
![The Word is Still “Disengagement”](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Disengagement.jpg)
The Word is Still “Disengagement”
Holy and Secular – “I want to present to you the ‘disengagement’ program,” the Prime Minister said. “It is not ‘disengagement,’ it is expulsion!” was the angry reply. But in reality...
Aug 1, 2007
By Rabbi Amichai Gordin
![Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Temple-Mount1-e1445944601205.jpg)
Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea
Parashat Va’etchanan and Erev Tisha B’Av 5767 I am writing this on the eighth of Av, after descending from two hours on Har Habayit – the Temple Mount, following immersing in...
Jul 26, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
![The First Ambassador of the State of Israel](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Israel-MFA.png)
The First Ambassador of the State of Israel
Land of My Birth – When Israel was established, it was necessary to set up a diplomatic organization including ambassadors who would represent the new country all over the world. The...
Jul 25, 2007
By Zev Wallack
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