The Six-Day War: A Personal Account
Goldie Warhaftig first came to Israel in 1966 to learn for a year in Machon Gold. She recalls what she experienced as a newcomer to Israel during the Six-Day War just...
May 6, 2019
By Goldie Warhaftig
Watch: Israeli Spacecraft Set to Land
Watch the live broadcast of SpaceIL’s attempted landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. If successful, Israel would become only the 4th nation to ever land a spacecraft on the Moon....
Apr 11, 2019
By OU Staff
OU Well-Represented at the Jerusalem Marathon
Running for Yachad, OU-JLIC and NCSY an incredible 288 individuals ran in support of OU programs in the 2019 Jerusalem Marathon last week.
Mar 19, 2019
By OU Staff
Ori’s Light Continues to Shine
This past erev Shabbat, our twenty-two-year-old son Eliyahu Yeshaya asked to borrow the car to attend the funeral of a terror victim. This was when I first heard about the terrorist...
Feb 13, 2019
By Adina Hershberg
Long-Lost Brothers
Bleary-eyed, I nudged the suitcase with my right foot, moving it a few inches ahead. The airport terminal at Ben Gurion was beginning to fill up and I was anxious to...
Jan 28, 2019
By Shlomo Horwitz
Skiing Under Syrian Missles
Social media networks lit up this week with images of Israelis skiing down Mt. Hermon (we’ll talk about skiing while filming some other time) as Syrian-fired rockets were intercepted overhead by...
Jan 23, 2019
By OU Staff
The Paratrooper Pin
The IDF Paratroopers are known for their daring, courage and heroism in all of Israel’s wars. They’re also known for the difficult training they must undergo to become combat-ready, and to...
Jan 14, 2019
By Shlomo Horwitz
On Mt. of Olives, Hundreds Mourn for Four-Day-Old Amiad...
Born two months premature after his mother was shot in a terror attack, four-day-old Amiyad Yisrael Hy”d died yesterday, after spending his brief life in the intensive care unit at Shaare...
Dec 12, 2018
By OU Staff
Sign the Petition: Return the Remains of Our Fallen...
In August of 2014, just after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas had taken effect, Hamas terrorists murdered three IDF soldiers. The bodies of two of the soldiers, Lt. Hadar...
Dec 12, 2018
By OU Staff
Dreamscapes
I recently attended a family event over Shabbat in Bet El, in the Shomron. Bet El has over 1,000 families, and is surrounded by Arab areas such as Ramallah, Surda and...
Dec 11, 2018
By Shlomo Horwitz
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