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My Child Is Missing
My Child Is Missing
Panic-stricken, I search for my child. Someone has taken my precious child. I try to scream, but no sound comes out. My entire world crumbles. With a pounding heart and gasps...
Jun 25, 2018
By Adina Hershberg
Netiv Avot’s Right to Exist
Netiv Avot’s Right to Exist
I awaken early in the morning and look out through the glass door in our bedroom which leads to our upstairs porch. The coolness of the Gush Etzion spring night still...
Jun 7, 2018
By Adina Hershberg
Bar Mitzvah Story
Bar Mitzvah Story
This summer more than 1,550 young adults (the largest amount ever) from diverse backgrounds and communities will experience Israel through Israel Free Spirit, an official Birthright Israel trip provider. Before the trip, many...
Jun 7, 2018
By OU Staff
Aliyah Sour Grapes?
Aliyah Sour Grapes?
Yoram had initially come to see me for “help with focusing.” “Maybe I have ADHD?” he asked. But nothing about his case suggested this was the case. Here was a talented...
May 31, 2018
By Jacob L. Freedman, MD
Reflections of a (Then-)New Olah on the Six Day War
Reflections of a (Then-)New Olah on the Six Day...
Bracha Slae made aliyah with her husband in 1966 to Beer Sheva, then a border town, a year before the Six Day War. She shares her experience as a new olah...
Apr 17, 2018
By Bracha Slae
As Italy’s Citron Crop Fails, an Archaeologist Looks to Fruit’s 2,500-Year History in Israel
As Italy’s Citron Crop Fails, an Archaeologist Looks to...
For the past 70 years, Lubavitcher Hasidim around the world have had only one choice for their citron — required for ritual use as one of the four species during the...
Aug 10, 2017
By OU Staff
This Shabbat Nachamu: Remember Lt. Hadar Goldin z”l
OU Community Engagement is calling on synagogues to publicly remember Lieutenant Hadar Goldin this Shabbat Nachamu in order to keep his memory alive and to build awareness of the urgency of...
Aug 2, 2017
By OU Staff
Jerusalem’s Paratrooper Heroes, Up Close and Personal
Jerusalem’s Paratrooper Heroes, Up Close and Personal
Let’s Open Our Sefarim This Yom Yerushalayim On May 16 and 17, 2017, Shlomo Horwitz of Jewish Crossroads conducted interviews with two heroic paratroopers involved in liberating the Kotel on Yom Yerushalayim....
May 22, 2017
By Shlomo Horwitz
Eliana Sohn: Following Her Own Yellow Brick Road
Eliana Sohn: Following Her Own Yellow Brick Road
Ever since I attended a performing arts summer program in Jerusalem 10 years ago, I’ve had my heart set on Aliyah. Having moved a few times as a kid, I used...
Jan 18, 2017
By Eliana Sohn
Rabbi Shimon and Garfunkel on the UN Vote
Rabbi Shimon and Garfunkel on the UN Vote
Throughout the Talmudic tractate of Shabbos, there is an ongoing debate between Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Yehuda regarding what’s called a davar sheino miskaven – something unintentional – with Rabbi Shimon...
Jan 11, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Abramowitz

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