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  • Germany Close Up Fellowship

    Germany Close Up Fellowship

    To apply click here: http://www.germanycloseup.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163:orthodox-union&catid=61:overview-young-professionals&Itemid=33

    posted by , on March 1, 2013
  • On a Wing and a Prayer

    On a Wing and a Prayer

    What?! Is it Passover season already? But it’s so early!!...As we get closer and closer to Passover, the holiday of our nation’s redemption from Egypt and the one that brought us to our homeland, I find it very exciting to reflect on the opportunities for the coming season.

    posted by , on March 1, 2013
  • Finding Real Happiness

    Finding Real Happiness

    משנכנס אדר מרבים בשמחה, when the month of אדר enters, our happiness abounds...The question is, how does someone become joyous? How does one increase happiness and, more importantly, what is happiness?

    posted by , on February 28, 2013
  • Traveling on a Mongoose Instead of a Donkey

    Traveling on a Mongoose Instead of a Donkey

    No matter how many times you have been there, traveling through Israel is always filled with new experiences. Whether you are walking through a shuk (open air market), hiking a trail in the desert, or touching the stones of theKotel (Western Wall), there always seems to be a new twist in the experience to make it feel like it’s your first time.

    posted by , on January 31, 2013
  • Parshat Yitro: The Power of Words

    Parshat Yitro: The Power of Words

    Words are very powerful!  Words can hurt and words can heal.  Words can create and destroy relationships.  A word’s power is not based on its length, the makeup of its letters, or anything else but its meaning.  While what the speaker or writer intends can be slightly altered by his tone, the way he writes

    posted by , on January 30, 2013
  • An Iphone App that Keeps Shabbat

    An Iphone App that Keeps Shabbat

      An Iphone App that Keeps Shabbat What does the Talmud say about airplanes? What did Louis Armstrong say about the Jews? Where is Hebrew hidden in a Shakespeare play? And which iPhone app keeps Shabbat? The newest entry into a narrow field of only a few hundred Jewish-themed apps is The Amazing Jewish Fact-a-Day

    posted by , on December 28, 2012
  • Similar Dualities: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches and the Blessing of Menashe & Ephraim

    Similar Dualities: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches and the Blessing of Menashe & Ephraim

    בס“ד Parshat Vayechi By: Ethan Katz In this week’s Torah portion, Parshas Vayechi, we find our forefather Yaakov sick on his deathbed as his family comes to say their final goodbyes and receive his saintly and powerful blessings for one last time. Yosef, Yaakov’s favorite son who had unfortunately been sold into slavery by his jealous

    posted by , on December 27, 2012
  • A Shining Light in Connecticut

    A Shining Light in Connecticut

    This time of year has amazed me for the longest time. The weather turns colder, the days are so very short, and yet everyone is out and about searching to find the best sales for the best gift. We call it the holiday season, and it may well be a season; but if a “holiday” is, as the English say, a vacation, I think we’ve missed the boat!

    posted by , on December 27, 2012
  • Oil and Water Don’t Mix

    Oil and Water Don’t Mix

    What a month it has been. A massive Superstorm, a presidential election, and a war in Israel—November 2012 is one for the books!

    posted by , on November 29, 2012
  • Chanukah: Winning the Spiritual “War”

    Chanukah: Winning the Spiritual “War”

    Chanukah and Purim are often talked about together. It is true that with both holidays the Jews were miraculously saved from their would-be destroyers, yet the two could not be more different.

    posted by , on November 27, 2012