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Israel Losing Edge Against Iran, Intel Head Warns
The Times of Israel writes: The country’s top army intelligence officer has reportedly said Israel and Iran are engaged in a technological “war,” with the Jewish state slowly losing its qualitative...
Nov 2, 2015
By OU Staff
Fighting Big Knives and Bad Ideas
Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine writes: You’ve been getting the arithmetic of war all wrong: The bloody battle unfurling in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Ra’anana and elsewhere...
Nov 2, 2015
By OU Staff
Torah Against Terror?
Torah Against Terror?
In the wake of the recent spate of terror attacks in Israel, there have been calls for people to take action to prevent these attacks. Some of the specific actions being...
Oct 27, 2015
By Rabbi Natan Slifkin
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook – preserved family recipes along with stories of how these families survived the holocaust. Read Linda Gassenheimer’s “Dinner in Minutes” food column.
Oct 19, 2015
By Linda Gassenheimer
Bringing Stolen Torahs Back Home
Bringing Stolen Torahs Back Home
We often mistranslate teshuva as repentance, but that is not exactly accurate. The Alter Rebbe, R’ Schneur Zalman of Liadi explains that teshuva is not reserved for sinners. The root of...
Sep 20, 2015
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
Israeli Recognition, At Last, For Jews Who Fought the Nazis
Israeli Recognition, At Last, For Jews Who Fought the...
As a proud patriot, Brooklyn-born Dan Nadel enlisted in the US army right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But there was another force driving him to battle — his...
May 29, 2015
By OU Staff
Steve Chats with Eli Genauer
Apr 22, 2015
By Stephen Savitsky
In Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which we observe in commemoration of the life and accomplishments of a great American. In tribute to Dr. King, Rabbi Weinreb composed this...
Jan 16, 2015
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
The Great but Humble Emancipator
January 1, the day that President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, marks the anniversary of the greatest assertion of presidential power in U.S. history. Lincoln understood that the...
Jan 5, 2015
By Rabbi Menachem Genack
Secrets of the Norwich Blood Libel
Secrets of the Norwich Blood Libel
The Norwich blood libel was history’s first to target Jews. Could recent archaeological finds shed some much needed light on this tragic event?
Jun 25, 2013
By Segula Magazine

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