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Ahead of Shavuot, NCSY Israel Addresses Teens’ Conflicting Emotions Around the War in Special Day of Learning
Ahead of Shavuot, NCSY Israel Addresses Teens’ Conflicting Emotions...
Since 2015, NCSY Israel has served as a home away from home for English-speaking teen olim across the country with five chapters in Yerushalayim, Bet Shemesh, Modin, Gush Ezion and Ra’anana....
Jun 5, 2024
By OU Staff
Tu B’Shvat in Eretz Yisrael: Insights from OU Israel Program Director Rabbi Sam Shor
Tu B’Shvat in Eretz Yisrael: Insights from OU Israel...
For many North Americans, memories of Tu B’Shvat as school children recall images of (largely unappetizing) dried fruit and JNF tree certificates with stamps. While the holiday’s popularity and creative scope...
Jan 25, 2024
By OU Staff
Be the Light in the Darkness
This Chanukah, the Jewish people need to focus even more on being the light in the darkness. We have just endured so much suffering and heartache. How can we illuminate the...
Dec 7, 2023
By Adina Soclof
From Meron To Yerushalayim: Reconciling Tragedy with Celebration
It has been a week of tears and of numbness. Every time I read the list of 45 I become dizzy and faint, wincing in disbelief. Too many names to remember...
May 6, 2021
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day
In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day
A letter from OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer: Dear Friends, The Holocaust was a period in history that demonstrated the human capacity to fail at our fundamental mission to...
Apr 8, 2021
By Rabbi Moshe Hauer
A Tale of Two Seders: The Pandemic Passover 2.0
This Passover presents a critical opportunity for us to bridge the strength of home and the power of community. Passover 2020 was a time for scrapping elaborate plans, cancelling family get-togethers...
Mar 24, 2021
By Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Closing the Door: A Pandemic Chanukah Gift
This Chanukah we must learn to celebrate the gift of a closed door. Yeshayahu (26:20) said: “Go my people, come into your chambers and close your door behind you, hide for...
Dec 10, 2020
By Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Empty Cemeteries and Jewish Sovereignty
Empty Cemeteries and Jewish Sovereignty
I just returned from the Gush Etzion cemetery having attended a very unusual Yom Hazikaron ceremony. It was a discouraging but also a triumphant experience. Let me explain. My family often...
Apr 29, 2020
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Watch: Make Your Own Pita and Hummus This Yom...
What better way to celebrate the 72nd birthday of the State of Israel than by attempting to make some iconic Israeli food in your own kitchen. Below please find how-to videos...
Apr 23, 2020
By OU Staff
The Institution of Kiddush in Shul on Friday Night
  This shiur is given in memory of Rabbi Genack’s mother, Rosa Shoshana bat Dov-Ber, z”l, on her 29th Yahrtzeit.
Apr 21, 2020
By Rabbi Menachem Genack

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