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I’m a city girl. I live on one of the lower floors of a twenty one story high-rise. My urban home is graced with great landscaping, pleasant playgrounds and even some...

Photo credits: Jim LaSala “Awesome” and “the best Shabbaton ever”. Or so said the teenage attendees of this year’s Our Way Family Shabbaton. Our Way is the OU’s program for the...

David Katz, reputed chazzan and educator, reminisced over his first visit to the Old City of Jerusalem. “It was an organized balagan,” he described with an amused smile. Only two days...

The Orthodox Union Takes Action: The halls of Lander College for Women, in Manhattan’s West Side, are typically filled with busy students rushing to and from class. But on Sunday, April...

On a clear day in Gush Etzion, you can see for miles. And if you know the history of the region, you can feel its spirit in your bones. You drive...

The students at Kiryat Yearim Elementary School in Ramat Hasharon sat through their first period classes oblivious to the flurry of preparation going on in the miklat beneath their school yard....

Kfar Adumim factory revives the lost commandment of tekhelet “God said to Moses saying speak to the Children of Israel and bid them that they make fringes on the corners of...

It took a gaggle of giggling grade 10 girls on a sabbatical here from their rocket-pounded homes in Ashdod to prove, yet again, that Israel’s strength lies in its twin bitachon...

“Welcome. Hashem is With You” reads a spray-painted wooden sign posted at the entrance to the army base at Gaza’s southernmost tip. This is the Israeli army’s main infantry training grounds...

A few months ago I went on a trip to visit OU Israel’s latest project in Tel Aviv and I saw a glimpse of the Jewish future in the Land of...