JEWISH ACTION
SPRING 5773/2013
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ACHDUT The Jewish World Series: Achdut Makes a Home Run By Steve Lipman Lessons from the Team That Wouldn’t Play on Shabbat By Steve Lipman INSPIRATION The Courage to Serve: A Chareidi Woman in the IDF By Fayga Marks
24 COVER STORY
Hurricane Sandy: A Spiritual Response 25 Voices from the Storm
Chaim Wakslak; Chaskel Bennett; Leibel Lederman; Aryeh Zev Ginzberg; Hylton Lightman; Leah Lightman; Eliezer Feuer; Tania Hammer; Jonathan Ackerman; Hannah Ash; Zahava Farbman; Frank Storch; Shaindle Russell As told to Bayla Sheva Brenner 38 Suffering with Dignity
By Steven Weil 39 A Lifeline in the Storm: OU
Provides Relief to Communities By Bayla Sheva Brenner 42 Seeking Answers with Humility
By Dov Karoll Adapted from an address by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein 44 Achdut by Sandy,
or Achdut by Love? By Stephen J. Savitsky
DEPARTMENTS
VOL. 73, NO. 3
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LETTERS
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Blended Learning: The Newest Frontier in Jewish Education?
Kosher, Ethically Produced Meat and Poultry By Rachel Wizenfeld 68 WELLNESS REPORT
Is Pesach Cleaning Hazardous to Your Health? By Shira Isenberg
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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Gerald M. Schreck
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FROM THE DESK OF RABBI STEVEN WEIL, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT The Chosen People
72 THE CHEF’S TABLE
INSIDE THE OU
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52 After Newtown Tragedy, OU
Advises Caution and Vigilance By Michael Orbach 54 Rabbi Steven Burg:
Twenty-two Years of Dedicated Service to NCSY 56 NEW BOOKS FROM OU PRESS 58 KOSHER@WORK
In Search of a Cup of Coffee By Eli Gersten SPECIAL SECTION 60 ISRAEL
On and Off the Beaten Track at . . . Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu A religious kibbutz that is a world leader in the technology of organic farming By Peter Abelow 64 Confessions of a Kosher
Organic Junkie By Rachel Wizenfeld
A Non-Gebrokts, Gluten-Free Passover By Norene Gilletz Hold the Knaidlach By Carol Ungar
76 Non-Gebrokts Food:
The Newest Trend By Carol Ungar BOOKS 78 Sefer Shiurei HaRav on Tefillah
and Keriat Shema By Rabbi Menachem Genack Reviewed by Yona Reiss 80 Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine:
Healthy, Simple & Stylish The Bais Yaakov Cookbook Temptation Dash Reviewed by Carrie R. Beylus 82 First Impressions
of the Koren Talmud Bavli By Harvey Belovski 86 The Starbucks Talmud
By Gil Student 88 LASTING IMPRESSIONS
My Pesach Miracle By Judy Gruen page 12
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PROFILE 46 Conversing with Poet Yehoshua November By Pessie (Sherry) Horowitz
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