http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/articles/ Featured articles from OU's weekly Shabbat Shalom Newsletter en Copyright 2008 2008-07-03T20:18:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/zoldan_stay_with_me/ As a child, I was enchanted by my grandmother’s loveliness, her black hair, sapphire eyes and milky white skin. No makeup for her. I remember her only vanity: dyed eyelashes and a manicure to cover the nicotine stains on her fingers. “A lady should look like a lady,” she said. But her goodness and her no-nonsense demeanor were the most real things about her. She brushed away her beauty like crumbs. Featured Articles, OU Home, shshmail 2008-07-03T15:15:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/infinite_wisdom1/ There’s a phrase that’s popped up in recent years -- “Let go and let God”. Perhaps it is this decade’s version of the oft-quoted Serenity Prayer asking for the wisdom to differentiate between the things we can change and those we cannot. Given the recent “Aha” moments in my life, these two phrases have begun to resonate in a new way, inspiring me to add a third -- “God in His infinite wisdom.” Featured Articles, ou home top, shshmail 2008-07-03T06:56:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/hershberg_war_after_war/ Shaindy Miller (nee Ehrenwald) never met three of her sisters. In 1918 in a village near Novozamsky, Hungary they were murdered by anti-Semites who played a drowning game to amuse themselves...She was born in 1930 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia. The town was on the Czech/Hungarian border and numbered about 5,000 inhabitants... Featured Articles 2008-06-26T09:09:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/ordene_a_doctors_dilemma/ You may have read "A Doctor's Dilemma" which was posted here earlier this week. This article can be read as being supportive of not administering medically prescribed vaccinations to children. The OU has a sterling record of advocating sound physical and mental health practices and therefore advocates that all individuals, especially halachically observant Jews, abide by standard medical procedures including vaccinations. For that reason, I have ordered that the article be removed from our website. We will be posting an article supporting vaccinations in the near future. Featured Articles 2008-06-26T06:18:01-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/julian_voloj_greece_jerusalem_of_the_balkans/ With more than 90% of its Jewish population killed during the Holocaust, Greece has many places that can remind one of Poland. The city of Verroia, a little known place not far away from Thessalonica, even has its own "shtetl", sans the Jews, today home of a gypsy community. Thessalonica itself, home of a... Featured Articles, Featured Multimedia 2008-06-26T03:23:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/its_not_gush_katif/ “We’re at Nezer Hazani,” the woman sitting next to me called into her cell-phone. “I’ll be back in a couple of hours.” Obviously someone was arguing with her at the other end. “I said we’re in Nezer Hazani”, she insisted. I tapped her on the shoulder. “We’re not at Nezer Hazani,” I whispered... Featured Articles 2008-06-19T06:48:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/second_thoughts_educating_in_english_or_hebrew/ Twice a week I have the privilege of meeting with two charming, intelligent, young Israeli females in my kitchen. The purpose of our... Featured Articles 2008-06-19T04:47:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/jewish_lifecycles_3_my_first_haircut/ Popular among Hasidic Jews (and those with more Hasidic customs), the boy gets his first haircut at three years old. Colloquially called the 'upsherin' in Yiddish (lit. to shear off), with this haircut comes a Kippa and Tzitzit, and the child's formal introduction to Torah education and mitzvot. At some upsherin ceremonies each of those attending snip off a lock of hair, at others... Featured Articles, Featured Multimedia 2008-06-19T03:09:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/on_mothers_in_law/ Did you hear the one about the woman who showed up at her daughter-in-law’s door? The younger Mrs. opened the door and cheerfully asked, “How long are you staying?” Her mother-in-law answered, “As long as I’m welcome.” So she replied, “You’re not going to even stay for a cup of coffee?” Featured Articles 2008-06-18T18:52:00-05:00 http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_shalom/article/creampuff_moments/ There are moments we wish would disappear from our memories, just be swallowed up in our past, leaving no trace, no painful residue. Most of those moments involve our doing something we wish could be undone...But sometimes, our regret comes from our inertia...trivial as a plate of creampuffs… Featured Articles 2008-06-12T16:57:00-05:00