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Rabbi Avi Baumol Director of the OU communities in Israel, talks about his first day on the job and an exciting OU kiruv program he experienced. When I began working at...

August 16th marked the biggest day of Western Aliyah in Israel’s history. Three countries were represented as planes arrived from JFK-NY, Toronto, and England in the first simultaneous landing of three...

Ever since I was a little girl, oh, six or seven years old, I knew immediately if people were talking about me behind my back. Back then, only recently released from...

View Slideshow This past summer NCSY birthright israel had 240 participants aged 18 to 26 visit Israel for their first time!! They explored the country, history and culture of Israel from...

One of the cultural stumbling blocks over which I find myself constantly, well… stumbling , is...

Every chartered Aliyah flight is significant and has it’s own special signature. July 19 was certainly no exception. With a little over a week into the war against Hizbullah, hundreds of...

My sixteen-year-old son bounded too energetically down a flight of stairs and twisted his ankle. No big deal, he thought. He went to the doctor on his own, and the first...

One year after their expulsion, the people of Gaza dedicated a sefer Torah. Each community received a letter, as well as Avi Berman, Director of the OU Israel Center. The Torah...

OU Volunteers arrived on the beaches of Nitzan, where Mr. Gaydimak, a wealthy man in Israel, is sponsoring thousands of refugees from the North, in tent cities. They set up their...

A cool breeze blows on Shabbat evening as we sit on the white plastic Israeli-made swing. There are still vestiges of a multi colored sky which is slowly turning darker. Our...