http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/ en elisheva.rosenblatt@gmail.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-25T12:29:55+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/torah-kippas-and-kickboxing/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/torah-kippas-and-kickboxing/#When:12:29:55Z The Trumpeldor neighborhood of Naharia is home to the poorest of the city’s poor, despite its tree-lined, well lit streets. With teenagers in those streets, and little to occupy their time, the neighborhood environment breeds lethargy, boredom and violence. OU Israel Program 2009-11-25T12:29:55+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/take-a-good-look/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/take-a-good-look/#When:12:10:35Z Picture this: a government minister delivers a complex shiur klali to a packed Beit Midrash. Believe it or not, it happened in the Lev Yehudi Beit Midrash in Ramat HaSharon. OU Israel Program, Lev Yehudi 2009-09-23T12:10:35+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/a-passion-for-caring/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/a-passion-for-caring/#When:12:01:36Z Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and her assistant arrived for our meeting at the King David Hotel with a bouquet of roses. OU Israel 2009-09-08T12:01:36+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/makom-balev-shabbaton-feasting/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/makom-balev-shabbaton-feasting/#When:15:47:19Z In one word? Incredible. But really is the smile that split my face that gave it all away. OU Israel Program, Makom BaLev 2009-08-16T15:47:19+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/hollywood-here-i-come/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/hollywood-here-i-come/#When:15:46:31Z The lights were dim, the house was packed. Not a single seat in the audience at Heichal HaTarbut in Tel Aviv was empty, and as I took the stage the spotlight was on me. OU Israel Program, Lev Yehudi 2009-08-14T15:46:31+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/mind-the-gap1/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/mind-the-gap1/#When:19:36:01Z The grandfather was a Holocaust survivor at age 13. The opportunity to celebrate his bar mitzvah had been crushed along with everything he loved and knew. Scarred and alone, he declared that his sons would never have a bar mitzvah. But Lev Yehudi was there when his grandson turned 13, and the son said ‘why not?” to his son having a bar mitzvah. And then he too decided to have his first aliya, and his bar mitzvah, on the same day that his son was called up to the Torah. OU Israel Program, Lev Yehudi 2009-07-20T19:36:01+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/the-next-frontier/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/the-next-frontier/#When:17:12:05Z Most who choose to go to the beach on a Shabbat morning don’t voluntarily give that information over to their rabbi or Torah teacher. But Yardena is different and so are her teachers. OU Israel Program, Lev Yehudi 2009-06-03T17:12:05+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/flat-lands-bumpy-roads/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/flat-lands-bumpy-roads/#When:18:53:01Z The view from the car window as we approached Kiryat Malachi was flat and straight for miles. It was very different from the familiar Judean hills surrounding Jerusalem. The lines of the hills and mountains around Jerusalem draw the eye ever upward towards the heavens. It always seemed to me as if the area’s topography was enlisted in a larger scheme to instill hope in those who live and visit there. But in Kiryat Malachi, the land is flat and people must create their own hope. We drove down the streets, no longer in Jerusalem territory, and I soon discovered that in this town, it takes a mountain of human strength to create a small mound of hope just big enough to get by. OU Israel Program, Makom BaLev 2009-06-01T18:53:01+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/a-center-in-the-center-of-the-world/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/a-center-in-the-center-of-the-world/#When:20:31:55Z It is not enough to make aliyah and move to Israel, olim must contribute to the rebuilding. There is so much we can do. There is so much we are doing. For the Jewish people, for the Land of Israel. OU Israel 2009-05-26T20:31:55+00:00 http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/constant-presence-constant-change/ http://www.ouisrael.org/blog/detail/constant-presence-constant-change/#When:17:25:15Z In a region too often associated with conflict, one initiative is doing its best to provide unconditional love and support. And with its new center in Kiryat Malachi, the sky’s the limit… OU Israel Program, Makom BaLev 2009-05-21T17:25:15+00:00