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December 2003 |
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December 29, 2003 |
Consumer May Have
Advantage in Purchase of Kosher Beef, Orthodox Union Experts Announce,
as Kosher Slaughtered Cattle have been free of Mad Cow Disease |
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December 23, 2003 |
OU to Present
Four Singles Events in Manhattan |
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December 22, 2003 |
OU to Present
Three Sessions on Positive Jewish Parenting at The Edmond J. Safra
Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side |
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December 22, 2003 |
OU to
Present “Marriage Enrichment Skills Workshop” in KEW GARDENS HILLS on
January 10 |
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December 22, 2003 |
OU Announces
Appointment of Heidi Kuperman
as Director of Development
of New Jersey-Based Etz Chaim Region
of National Conference of
Synagogue Youth |
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December 18, 2003 |
OU Website Features Chanukah Lectures |
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December 16, 2003 |
OU Pledges Continued Attention to
Plight of Jewish Jobless, as Workshop for Job Seekers Draws Capacity
Attendance |
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December 1, 2003 |
Visiting Jerusalem Mayor, Meeting Orthodox Union Leaders, Lauds
‘Outstanding’ Programs of OU’s Jerusalem Center |
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December 1, 2003 |
OU Asks U.S. Supreme
Court to Reject Religious Discrimination in State College Scholarship
Awards to Students |
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November 2003 |
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November 26, 2003 |
OU Applauds Administration’s Continued Implementation of Policy to
Have Federal Policies Treat Religious Institutions Fairly; Historic
Synagogue Granted Funds for Secular Preservation |
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November 24, 2003 |
New Y.U. President Richard Joel to Deliver
Keynote: OU West Coast Torah Convention in Los Angeles to Explore ‘The
Secret to Jewish Survival: The Jewish Family,’ in Community-Wide Event,
December 11-15 |
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November 20, 2003 |
OU
Outraged at Continuing Acts of Terror in Turkey; Action is Demanded
from the Muslim World |
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November 20, 2003 |
OU
Protests Passage of UN Security Council Resolution on the Road Map |
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November 19, 2003 |
OU
Applauds Bush Call To Europeans To Oppose Anti-Semitism & Reject
Palestinian Leaders Who Support Terrorism |
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November 19,
2003 |
In Light of the Synagogue Bombings in
Istanbul: OU Rabbi’s Spirits Lifted Following Condolence Letter From
Turkish Muslim |
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November 19, 2003 |
Special Message
from the President of the Orthodox Union, Harvey
Blitz, from Funerals in Turkey |
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November 19, 2003 |
OU Yachad National
Tribute Dinner to Honor Jeff Braverman,
Forman Family, Jimmy Libman and Rabbi
and Dr. Yaish |
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November 18, 2003 |
OU
Protests Massachusetts Court Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriages; Will
Legislature Protect Religious Liberty? |
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November 17, 2003 |
OU
Outraged by Istanbul Car Bombings at Congregations Beth Israel and
Neve Shalom |
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November 17, 2003 |
OU to
Present "Marriage Enrichment Skills Workshop" in Forest Hills on
December 6 |
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November 14, 2003 |
Stay West Young
Man (and Woman): Success of Orthodox Union
Advanced Jewish Studies Program At UCLA Promises to Make Westwood Campus
Increasingly Attractive Alternative to Ivy League for Elite Graduates Of
Los Angeles Yeshiva High Schools |
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November 11, 2003 |
OU Applauds Senate
Passage of Syria Accountability Act |
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November 11, 2003 |
Following Last
Summer's Great Success: New Offerings to
Highlight NCSY Summer Programs for 2004; Spain and Prague Added as
Destinations |
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November 6, 2003 |
Sessions Set
for December 2, 9 and 16: OU Announces Free
Employment Workshops for Job Seekers |
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November 5, 2003 |
Ariel Kotler,
Former IDF Officer, Joins OU as Assistant Director of Development |
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November 3, 2003 |
Election Day |
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October 2003 |
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October 30, 2003 |
Young Adults to
Travel from January 4-16, 2004: OU “Yachad”
Program to Offer First birthright israel Trip for Developmentally
Disabled; Follows Successful Programs for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired |
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October 24, 2003 |
Fun & Games
at New York NCSY’s
12th Annual Chinese Auction |
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October 24, 2003 |
OU to Extend
Telephone Hotline for Parents and Teachers of Special Needs Children |
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October 22, 2003 |
A Young Man’s
Rite of Passage to Be the Centerpiece of a Sabbath Weekend:
A Very Special Bar Mitzvah: Teens to Flock to Binghamton as the OU’s
National Conference of Synagogue Youth Gives Mike Toujiline the Ceremony
he Feared he Would Never Have |
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October 21, 2003 |
OU’s Institute
for Public Affairs to Honor Lionel Kaplan and Betty Ehrenberg at
Annual Dinner; Senator Santorum to be Featured Speaker |
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October 15, 2003 |
How to Reach
All Children in the Classroom is Theme of Orthodox Union’s NJ
Association of Jewish Day Schools Election Day Conference |
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October 14, 2003 |
‘Positive
Jewish Parenting Conference,’ Addressing Daily Challenges Facing
Families, Comes to Chicago: OU,
Associated Talmud Torahs and E.L.A.N. Diagnostic
Center To Present How-To Session |
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October 9, 2003 |
OU
Commends House International Relations Committee for Passage of Syria
Accountability Act |
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September 2003 |
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September 30, 2003 |
In High Holy Days
Message: Frisch (New Jersey) Students
Encouraged by OU Executive Director Rabbi Weinreb to Draw Strength from
Tragedies Afflicting Israel |
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September 23, 2003 |
OU and RCA Leaders
Say Richard Joel’s Presidency of Yeshiva University, Through his View of
Community Development, Will Benefit the Wider Jewish Community |
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September 19, 2003 |
An Intensive
Campaign for Future Sales is Under Way:
Financial Assistance Raised by Sale of OU Prayer Cards Distributed
to IDF Soldiers in Need Prior to Rosh Hashanah |
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September 17, 2003 |
New
Westchester/Riverdale District of OU’s National Conference of
Synagogue Youth to Present Free Concert by Blue Fringe Band During
Intermediate Days of Sukkot Festival |
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September 16, 2003 |
In
Livingston, NJ and Staten Island: OU Yachad
Program for Learning Disabled to Hold First Two Events of the Season on
Sunday |
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September 16, 2003 |
OU Website to
Carry Rabbi’s Address and Lecture Series:
Orthodox Union Rosh Hashanah Message Emphasizes Faith and Hope in a Time
of Tragic Events |
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September 16, 2003 |
The Kosher
World Expands Its Horizons As Campbell’s Vegetarian Vegetable Soup
Receives OU Certification |
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September 16, 2003 |
OU Website has
Posted the Halacha of Hurricanes, the Application of Jewish Law When a
Natural Disaster Hits |
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September 10, 2003 |
The OU’s
Initial Five- Part Response to the Jewish Population Survey:
Confronting Assimilation Crisis, Orthodox Union Calls for
Community-Wide Programs Emphasizing Education and Outreach, with National
Conference of Synagogue Youth as a Model |
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September 9, 2003 |
OU Makes
Available The Rav And Religious Zionism, Six-Cassette Tape Set With
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet Interpreting Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Evolving Thought |
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September 8, 2003 |
OU
Joins In Asking U.S. Supreme Court
To Reject Religious Discrimination In State College Scholarship Awards To
Students |
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September 8, 2003 |
OU
Hails Landmark House Vote to
Give D.C.
Parents & Kids School Choice |
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September 4, 2003 |
Message From
The Orthodox Union On The Second Anniversary Of September 11, 2001: “This
We Witnessed…” |
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September 3, 2003 |
OU Asks Senators to
Protect Traditional Definition of Marriage |
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September 3, 2003 |
OU Calls on House of
Representatives to Give D.C. Parents & Kids School Choice |
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August 2003 |
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August 29, 2003 |
Jonathan Pollard –
Upcoming Hearing |
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August 25, 2003 |
OU Praises Bush
for Pipes Appointment |
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August 22, 2003 |
OU
Praises President Bush's Freezing of Hamas Assets |
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August 13, 2003 |
Dial 1-800
493-8990 for Expert Advice: OU to Establish
Telephone Hotline for Month of September to Address Concerns of Parents
and Teachers of Special Needs Children |
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August, 2003 |
OU
Applauds Congressional Letter Urging Help for Israeli MIA Elchanan
Tannenbaum |
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August 12, 2003 |
OU
Applauds Congressional Letter Urging Administration Not to Cut Loan
Guarantees for Israel |
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August 11, 2003 |
Rave Reviews
for OU’s Tisha B’Av Broadcast Praise Rabbi
Weinreb’s Commentary for Deepening Meaning of Tisha B’Av |
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August 8, 2003 |
OU Leadership
Program in Ukraine Provides a Jolt of Jewish Energy to NCSY Teens |
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August 1, 2003 |
Couples Ranged
From One Year of Marriage to 53: OU Turns 'Good Marriages into Great
Ones' at Retreat for Contented Couples |
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July 2003 |
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July 17, 2003 |
New ‘Volunteers for Israel’ Group
Does Non-Military Work on Army Bases: OU’s NCSY Summer Youth Programs Show
Dramatic Enrollment Growth, as Offerings Respond to Needs of Different
Audiences and Varied Interests |
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July 15, 2003 |
Orthodox Union Tisha B’Av Program to
Feature Emotional New Jerusalem Video and Live Webcast of Fast Day
Elegies, With Commentary by Rabbi Weinreb, OU Leader |
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July 3, 2003 |
OU Announces Appointment of Zale Newman
as National Director of National Conference of Synagogue Youth; NCSY
Veteran Brings Key Business Skills in Addition to Youth Work Background |
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July 3, 2003 |
His Goal Is to Fight Jewish Assimilation
and Intermarriage: Zale Newman’s Vision of his New Job: ‘We Will
Build an NCSY for the MTV Generation’ |
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July 1, 2003 |
OU and RCA Leaders Present ‘Prayer Card’
Plaque to Visiting IDF Chief Rabbi |
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July 1, 2003 |
Orthodox Jewish Leaders
Join With President Bush To Call For School Choice In Nation’s Capital |
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June 2003 |
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June 25, 2003 |
OU Welcomes Renewed
White House Defense of Religious Liberty; Position Paper Released Today
Argues for Common Sense & Constitutional Approach |
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June 25, 2003 |
OU Tackles Unemployment with Online Job Bank |
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June 23, 2003 |
OU Welcomes Supreme
Court Decision Letting Lower Court Ruling Approving Tenafly Eruv Stand |
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June 17, 2003 |
A Day at Chelsea Piers:
Goldman Sachs
and OU’s Yachad Join
up for
a Day in
the Sun |
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June 17, 2003 |
The
Beth Din of America,
the Rabbinical Council
of America, and the
Orthodox Caucus Announce the Release
of a Revised Prenuptial
Agreement |
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June 13, 2003 |
Turn Good Marriages into Great Ones:
Orthodox Union Presents ‘Positive
Jewish Marriage Enrichment
Retreat,’ As Part of
Focus on Family
Life |
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June 13, 2003 |
OU’S Israel Center, Which
Counsels Victims of
Terror, is Itself a
Victim, with Two
Dead and Two Wounded
in Hamas Bus Attack |
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June 10, 2003 |
Orthodox Jewish Groups
Support Israel’s Defensive Actions; Take Exception to White House
Criticism |
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June 9, 2003 |
The Leading
Rabbinical Organization Gets a New Chief Professional:
Rabbi Basil Herring Selected To Be Executive Vice President Of The
Rabbinical Council Of America |
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June 4, 2003 |
Program Motto
Is ‘Israel! We Care! We’re Going!: OU Announces
Joint Venture With Tourism Ministry To Create Volunteer Corps To Promote
Travel To Israel |
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May 2003 |
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May 29, 2003 |
OU Guidebook
Tackles Questions of Jewish Law and the Use of Electronic Hearing Devices
on the Sabbath,
The Expert’s Basic
Position Favors Leniency in Interpretations |
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May 28, 2003 |
OU
Applauds Administration's Latest Policy to
have Federal Policies Treat Religious
Institutions Fairly; Historic Houses of Worship
can get Funds for Secular Preservation |
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May 27, 2003 |
OU Celebrates Jerusalem
Day with Special Website Program Featuring Remarks by Executive Vice
President and International Director on Religious and Political
Significance of Israel’s Capital |
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May 16, 2003 |
An Immediate
Success Announces Plans to Expand: NCSY
Volunteers For Israel Summer Program to Send
Second Group to Military Base
for Activity in Civilian Roles |
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May 14, 2003 |
Orthodox Union
Website Tops 10 Million ‘Hits’ in Month From
350,000 Visits; Popular Site Educates and Entertains While Giving OU
Visibility Around the Globe |
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May 14, 2003 |
RCA National
Convention to Feature Sessions Assisting Rabbis in Confronting
Challenges in their Professional and Family Lives |
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May 6, 2003 |
OU'S Our
Way Program for
the Jewish Deaf and
Hard of Hearing to
Hold its Fourth Annual
Family Sabbath Gathering,
May 16-18 |
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May 6, 2003 |
A Cure For
‘Spiritual Deficiency Syndrome’
Leading Rabbi Calls on NCSY Advisors
to Become "Spiritual
Role Models" |
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May 5, 2003 |
OU
Condemns UN Secretary General’s Criticism of Israel |
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April 2003 |
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April 29, 2003 |
OU Annual Dinner To Honor Heschel Raskas,
The St. Louis 'Renaissance Man'; Rabbi Hershel Billet, RCA
President; And The Firmenich Group; Event Will Also Pay Tribute To 'The
Rabbi's Rabbi,' Steven M. Dworken, Late RCA Executive VP |
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April 14, 2003 |
OU
Applauds Senate
Introduction of
Workplace Religious
Freedom Bill; Hopes
for Senate Action Soon
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April 11, 2003 |
At Brandeis, Brooklyn, Cornell, Penn, UCLA and
Yale: OU Jewish Learning Initiative Places Rabbinical Couples on
Major Campuses to Serve as Mentors and Role Models to Orthodox and
Non-Orthodox Students. |
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April 9, 2003 |
A Passover Message by
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb. The
War in Iraq and the Exodus from Egypt:
Liberation from Tyranny and Turning Points in
History. |
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April 8, 2003 |
OU Calls on Senate to
Pass “C.A.R.E. ACT” – America's Charities Need Resources |
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April 8, 2003 |
E-Mail from Kuwait: Is Snapple Kosher? An Army Chaplain Asks an OU
Rabbi Questions About Kashrut, While Planning Seders for the Troops |
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April 4, 2003 |
NCSY Launches New Birthright Program
for High School Seniors |
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March
2003 |
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March 27, 2003 |
OU Mourns the Passing of
Daniel Patrick Moyihan; “An Unparalleled Friend to our Community” |
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March 21, 2003 |
OU Sends Lithograph of Acheinu Prayer for
the Safety of the Jewish People to its Synagogues to Encourage Daily
Communal Recitation by Congregants |
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March 20, 2003 |
OU
Commends House
Effort to Improve
Special Education for
Americs’s Children,
Still Improvements to
be Made |
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March 19, 2003 |
Statement
of the OU and RCA
on the “Imminent” War
with Iraq |
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March 14, 2003 |
Union Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations Comments Upon President Bush’s
Statement on Mideast Peace |
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March 14, 2003 |
OU
Pamphlet in Sign Language
Enriches Participation of Deaf
and Hard of
Hearing at Passover Seder |
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March 14, 2003 |
Spring
Issue of Jewish Action, the OU Magazine, Explores
Controversies of Orthodox Rescue During the Holocaust and
Homosexuality in the Orthodox Community |
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March 6, 2003 |
In Support of Israel’s Nefesh
B’Nefesh Foundation:
OU
Announces
Fund Drive
to Assist Hundreds
of American Families Planning Aliyah
to Israel
this Summer |
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March 4, 2003 |
‘Zero Tolerance’
Policy Ordered for Drinking at NCSY Events:
Declaring 'Our Tradition is Against Drunkenness,'OU Leader
Warns Against Alcohol Abuse on Purim |
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March 3, 2003 |
OU’s
Yachad Program for Disabilities Forms Association of
Special Educators in Jewish Schools to Meet Growing Need for
Sharing of Information and Mutual Assistance |
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February
2003 |
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February 22, 2003 |
At
the National Day of Prayer: OU
Leader Declares that Killing
of Innocents by
Islamic Fundamentalists has Given
Religion a Bad Name |
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February 20, 2003 |
Wide
Variety of NCSY Summer Programs to Offer Teens Unique
Range of Experiences in U.S., Canada, Israel and Europe |
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February 20, 2003 |
OU
Community-Wide Parenting Conference to Emphasize
Strengthening Parenting Skills |
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February 19, 2003 |
OU Our Way Program to Welcome Jewish Deaf and Hard of
Hearing Adults to Annual Singles Retreat, February 21-23 in
Highland Park, NJ |
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February 13, 2003 |
New
Book on Women in the Talmud, by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, to
be Published this Week by Orthodox Union |
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February 13, 2003 |
The
Power Point Megillat Esther Goes Continental:
OU Pilot Program
that Makes Megillah Reading
Accessible to the
Deaf And Hearing Impaired to Expand
this Year to
Synagogues Nationwide and
in Canada |
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February 12, 2003 |
OU/RCA
Call for
National Day of Prayer - Thursday,
February 20 – 18 Adar
I |
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February 12, 2003 |
OU Announces
that Video Tapes are Now Available for Convention
Commemoration of Centenary and Yahrzeit of Rav Soloveitchik |
|
February 10, 2003 |
Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations Welcomes New Federal
Guidance On Constitutional Parameters For Religion In Public
Schools |
|
February 4, 2003 |
Statement of the
OU and RCA on the
Space
Shuttle Tragedy |
|
February 3, 2003 |
Union
of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations Welcomes
Parental Choice in Education Elements in President's Budget
Proposal |
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January
2003 |
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January 31, 2003 |
Update to Editors
and Reporters – Sales of
OU Cards with Prayer for IDF have Now
Passed the 20,000 Mark and are
Increasing Every Day |
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January 30, 2003 |
Union Of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations Welcomes Renewed Senate
Effort To Support America’s Charities |
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January 28, 2003 |
OU ‘Kashrut of Medications'
Seminar to Explore Whether your Prescription is Kosher -
and What to do if it Isn't |
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January 24, 2003 |
Baby Shalhevet’s Father Opened a Yeshiva in Her Memory:
OU Mission to Israel Consoles Victims of
Terror: 'We Were Moved to Tears, but we Were Inspired as Well' |
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January 23, 2003 |
OU
to Honor Three Couples as it Inducts New Members of NCSY's
Ben Zakkai Honor Society |
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January 10, 2003 |
NCSY ‘It Could Have Been Me
Campaign,’ to Bring the Face of Palestinian Terror Home to
U.S. Senate
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