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1. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” Dhirubhai Ambani 2. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine 3. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”…

Here at RO, we make it a mission to find things on the Internet that have real meaning — things that take you out of the tempting narrow focus of your own existence and give you some perspective about your neighborhood, your community, and your world. This speech, delivered at Kenyon College way back in…

Is there a rational basis to believe that Judaism is true? In this lecture, Lawrence Kelemen presents a rational approach to the Divine origin of Judaism. You will find out the one unique claim that Judaism makes that no other religion in history has made. Lawrence Kelemen graduated UCLA and did graduate studies at Harvard….

by: Rabbi Dr. Ronnie Hasson If we look in the Torah, the date (the 6th day of the third month) of Shavuot cannot be found. One cannot find a holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments, or any specific laws for Shavuot. Even the later works of Mishna, Gemara, Rambam, do not have a…

by Abraham Rabinovich A reporter’s firsthand account of the unintended conquest. Abraham Rabinovich is author of The Battle for Jerusalem: An Unintended Conquest, a recently published eBook. He arrived in Israel five days before the Six Day War as an American reporter and covered the battle. He subsequently interviewed 300 persons for the print edition…

Tue, 07 May 2013 at sundown, Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: יום ירושלים‎, Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank God for victory in the…

Join RAJE as we welcome Yishai Fleisher for an on-the-ground perspective and frank discussion of competing dreams and realities, as well as occupations and liberations, in the holy and historic city of Jerusalem. Yishai will discuss what the term ‘East Jerusalem’ actually refers to. Can Arabs and Jews live together? Is the only solution to…