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 OU Israel's Youth Center is Proud to Present: 15 Seconds... ZOOM A Photography Exhibit   Wednesday, September 7, 7:00 PM The First Station, 4 David Remez St. Yerushalayim   Commemorating 2 years since 'Operation Protective Edge' The photographs are the product of a year long photography course which was created as an art therapy program in the aftermath of 'Operation Protective...

Hear the word “Israel” and images of stabbings and attacks on innocent lives immediately come to mind during these trying times. Jews all over the world are concerned with how their friends, relatives and even people they have not met in Israel are coping. It is amidst “the recent...

      Like all good tiyulim to Massada, this one began in the middle of the night. More than 50 sixth graders from the Begin Elementary School in Bet Shemesh arrived at their school at 2:00 a.m. on a weekday in mid-May. Each child was accompanied by a parent. The tiyul...

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...

Sherut Leumi girls working with Makom Balev in Bet Shemesh started the school year with programs about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. The volunteers taught about the holidays in a way that was both informative and fun for the pupils at the Begin public school. The activities...

Photos by Abba Richman Planning this fun day wasn’t easy. It seemed that every time there was a siren or Code Red alert, another teen cancelled. They’re nervous. And their parents re-thought their permission. In the end 70 teens from Oraita in Ofakim and Makom BaLev in Sderot and Kiryat...

Oraita Ofakim organizes war room for the south. The center which was opened last week coordinates projects for volunteers in Ofakim and elsewhere in the south. The center which was opened last week was started by Vadim Shaulof, director of Oraita Okakim. Oraita Dimona: Games Central. The moadon...