Why Start with the Beginning? What Bereshit Teaches Us About Hashem by Rabbi David Pardo (OU-JLIC Brandeis)
Today we open the Book of Books anew atorvastatin online. Perhaps our people’s most enduring and most tangible gift to the world, we hear the echoes of the Bible in world religions, in legal systems, in classical and modern political philosophy, in art, and in literature, to name but a few venues. And as we […]
OU-JLIC/YU Fellowship 2015-2016
OU-JLIC launched the second OU-JLIC/YU Fellowship cohort on Sunday August 23rd with a day-long orientation at the OU headquarters. The Fellowship is accredited as a formal internship for RIETS 4th Year Internship program and aims to serve as a training ground from which future full-time OU-JLIC rabbis and educators will be drawn. The incoming Fellows, who […]
OU JLIC to Educate Teaneck HS Students on Jewish Life on Secular College Campuses
The Jewish Link: Thursday 5/28/2015 By: Tova Domnitch The Orthodox Union’s Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (OU JLIC) will run a community engagement weekend June 12-13 in Teaneck at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, Congregation Rinat Yisrael, and Congregation Keter Torah. The goal of the weekend is to educate the community, and specifically high school students […]
Rabbi Yosi Eisen, OU-JLIC UMass Wins Harold Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education
GRINSPOON AWARDS – PRIZE WINNING EDUCATORS ANNOUNCED The Harold Grinspoon Foundation announced last month the four winners of the local Grinspoon Awards for Excellence in Jewish Education. These outstanding educators received surprise visits from community representatives bearing flowers and balloons: Esther Benari-Altmann, Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield; Rabbi Yosi Eisen of the OU-JLIC Program at […]
OU’s Collegiate Leadership Shabbaton At NYU Inspires Jewish Student Leaders From Across The Nation
Last Shabbat was the fourth annual Orthodox Union Collegiate Leadership Shabbaton in New York City, once again hosted at New York University’s Bronfman Center and at The Brownstone/David H. and Carol Feinberg Leadership Center, and featuring scholar-in-residence Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth. Planning and running the Shabbaton was done jointly by different departments within OU NextGen, including the Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus–JLIC (in particularly NYU […]
NY1: NYU Rabbi Looks Back on First-Hand Experience of Violence in Israel
By: Michael Herzenberg 11/18/2014 11:48 PM Click here to watch the interview The violence in the Middle East has affected New Yorkers for years. Some have lost loved ones—or experienced the conflict first hand. NY1’s Michael Herzenberg filed the first installment of a two part series. “I love working with people,” says Rabbi Gideon Black. […]
OU Welcomes Rabbi & Wife as Torah Educators at Columbia U
The Jewish Voice: On Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 By: JV Staff As the academic year is in full swing at colleges across America and with the fall holidays now history, Rabbi Noam and Shiffy Friedman are prepared to look ahead for their first year on campus as the Torah Educators at the Heshe and Harriet […]