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Get your complimentary copy with the Friday March 13 edition of The Jerusalem Post. On Friday March 20 the Guide will be available with Torah Tidbits in communities outside of Jerusalem. On Friday March 27 it will be distributed to other communities. Simultaneously this year’s OU Israel Pesach Guide will be available...

PUT A SMILE ON A SOLDIER'S FACE FOR PURIM     They defend the State of Israel all day, every day. Now you can do something nice for them in return. How can you contribute to this campaign? Fill out this form and make OU Israel your Shaliach to give Mishloach Manot. Our goal this year...

There are two sides to Rehovot (population 114,000). The side that is well known includes the Weizmann Institute of Science, home of three Nobel Prize winners, and the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture. The neighborhood of Ushiot (“foundations”) is on the other side of town. It’s a Project Renewal neighborhood. It’s...

Rabbi Aryeh Stern was elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim on October 22, 2014. A student of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, Rabbi Stern filled an 11-year vacancy that was created by the death of Rabbi Yitzhak Kolitz ז"ל in 2003. The chief editor of the Halacha Brura and Berur Halacha...

By Rabbi Avi Berman, Executive Director of OU Israel Tuesday was an extremely sad day for Klal Yisrael (People of Israel). It was a day on which I was among thousands of mourners who ascended to Har Hamenuchot (Mount of the Rested) for the joint funeral of our four holy brothers. Four Jews who...

By Zvi Volk The massive demonstration in Paris on Sunday was an impressive day that will long be remembered. With an estimated 1.5 million people walking in central Paris to demonstrate against terrorism, this was the largest demonstration France has seen since the end of World War II. If you add...

After OU Israel’s annual membership drive, the organization wanted to thank the members for their support. This year, on the seventh day of Chanukah there was a Members Tea. Of course they were served more than tea. Latkes and soufganiyot led off the menu. This year there are about 400...