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Shabbat Shalom - Parshat Vayikra

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PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery By Judah S. Harris The hand matzah you'll eat the nights of the seder could have come from any one of a number of bakeries, but if it came from the Charedim Matzah Bakery in Boro Park, then take a look at the exact story of its creation. Read More » Featured Articles Teaching the Value of Freedom at the Seder By Rabbi Reuven Spolter. Retelling the story of redemption to our children isn't about reading the text of the Hagaddah. It's about personalizing the story so that our children can appreciate both the meaning of suffering and the value of redemption. Read entire story » Pesach on the Base By Bayla Sheva Brenner. One week after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime in April 2003, Jews everywhere gathered around their Seder tables to celebrate Pesach. Read entire story » Parsha Columns Rabbi Weinreb’s Torah Column, Parshas Vayikra We live in a world of cell phones and e-mails, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. We have no privacy, for almost anyone can reach us wherever we are, whatever we happen to be doing, at all times of the day. Read entire article » Vayikra: Holiness – Jewish Style! By Rabbi Asher Brander No book of the Torah requires greater effort to discover nuggets of contemporary relevance than Vayikra. And no book yields greater gold. Let the mining begin! Two paradigm sacrifices, Olah and Shelamim highlight our parsha. They differ fundamentally... Read entire article » Food Columns Passover Dessert Recipes By Emuna Braverman and Manhattan Day School Here is a collection of easy and delicious kosher-for-Passover dessert recipes. Read entire article » Recipes with Barley By Eileen Goltz Barley is kind of a super fiber-filled food, and who can’t use more fiber in their diet these days? Read entire article » OU Press has published another exceptional new book. The Royal Table: A Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Norman Lamm is a work of brilliant insights expressed in Rabbi Lamm’s inimitable style, articulate and engaging, while sensitive and moving. For this commentary, Rabbi Lamm’s weekly sermons and divrei Torah delivered while he was Rabbi of The Jewish Center have been culled for his insights on the Haggadah and the Passover holiday. Together with relevant selections from his written works, they make up this new and compelling commentary on the Haggadah. We now have the opportunity on Passover evening to join Rabbi Lamm at his Royal Table and retell the story of the Exodus with new understanding. The Na’aleh High School Program The Na’aleh High School Program is a fully subsidized program for students who demonstrate academic excellence. Two of the four participating Israeli schools are specifically created to meet the academic and hashkafic needs of young people from religious communities. Click HERE for more information.  Check Out OURadio!     Nisan: The Month of Renewal Fact, Fiction, and Simple Faith This Week's Haftarah* Rabbi Jeremy Wieder Torah Tidbits Audio Phil Chernofsky is the educational director of the OU Israel Center and the editor of Torah Tidbits, the Center's weekly Torah publication distributed throughout Israel. The Coming Week's Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew version of the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud. Masechet Sanhedrin - 35a-41b Dvar Torah by Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Covenant and Conversation -  Self and Sacrifice OU Kosher: LISTEN NOW ON OURADIO Kitniyot: A Lesson in Legumes OU Kosher News Learn about all that's new in the world of OU Kosher. Subscribe to OUKosher RSS Feeds and get OUKosher news, articles and information delivered right to your desktop. Kashrut Feature Article Orthodox Union’s Pre-Passover Webcast Answers Variety of Pesach-Related Questions, Tuesday, March 23  OU Events: Pre-Pesach Yom Iyun with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter and Sir Jonathan Sacks March 21, 2010 Pre-Pesach Yom Iyun with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter and Sir Jonathan Sacks From Break Up To Break Through March 23, 2010 A workshop for men and women navigating through any phase of divorce. OU Israel Center: Tuesday, 8 Nisan - March 23 10:00AM Travel Desk - Clock Museum Is Time Always the Same? Does it depend upon the clock? Join us for a visit to the Clock Museum (did you know there is one?) and learn all about the extraordinary exquisite exceptional clocks which were stolen over 20 years ago from this museum. They were recently found and retrieved and are now on display. We shall see the clocks on a guided tour and hear all about the exciting story. We shall listen to a lecture on Islam by our own popular Nachman Kupietzky and then tour the rest of the Museum 50NIS members 60NISnon-members - Call 560-9110 or 050-725-8392 Full listing of Israel Center Classes	Parshat Vayikra 5 Nisan 5770 March 19-20, 2010 Haftarah: Yeshayahu 43:21-44:23 Candlelighting Times and Zmanim Important Changes to Zmanim Calculations Holiday Calendar Archived Divrei Torah for this Week Choose a Dvar Torah OU Kosher News Parsha Summary Halacha of the Week Recipes Torah Choose a Dvar Torah Archived Divrei Torah for this Week Parsha Summary Halacha of the Week Vayikra - Eating on Erev Pesach Read entire story » Last Week Go to OU homepage www.ou.org * From the VaYavinu BaMiqra CD.  This CD can be ordered here.