Spring 5762 Issue of Jewish Action - The Magazine of the Orthodox Union

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SPRING 5762
Volume 62,
No. 3 Highlights:

Special Section:
NCSY Alumni: Leaders Then and Now

Jewish Action
The Magazine of the Orthodox Union
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A Spring Blessing: The Berachah on Blossoming Trees
Moshe Bleich and Chaya Devora Hammer

ORTHODOX AT WORK

• Musar from McCluskie: Confessions of a Hollywood Marrano
Brian Ross

• Finding God 9 to 5: The Spiritual Challenges of the Workplace
Yitzchok A. Breitowitz

LEADERS THEN AND NOW: Profiles of NCSY Alumni

• Jeanne Abrams - Nechama Carmel
• Marc Belzberg - Toby Klein Greenwald
• Nina S. Butler - Reuvain Dor
• Dennis M. Eisenberg - Diane Chabbott
• Marla Frohlinger - Erica M. Rauzin
• Lisa Kermaier - Sara Bedein
• Rabbi Zev Leff - Yaakov Kornreich
• Louis J. Malcmacher - Danny Butler
• Rabbi Sholom Strajcher - Yaakov Kornreich

Gifts from the Sea: Adapted from Nesivos Shalom
Yitzchok Adlerstein

Renewal
Joel M. Schreiber

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in Eilat
Peter Abelow

DEPARTMENTS

President's Message
NCSY Enters a New Era
Harvey Blitz

Letters to the Editor

Jewish Living
The 9-11 Syndrome
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.

The Chef's Table
Passed Down Passover Pancakes
Gil Marks

Bytes & PCs
All in the Family - Making it Count
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein

BOOKS

• Mr. Batt's Way
by Miriam Batt Halpern
Reviewed Julius Berman

• The Man Who Stopped the Trains To Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour
by David Kranzler
Reviewed by Shlomo Slonim

New to the OU

Just Between Us:
Child-Careering: Thoughts from a Professional Mom
Sara Malka Poupko Reichman