You may have heard of ma’an, or Manna. This was the spiritual food that God gave the Jewish people in the desert, we are told many stories as children about this mystical food and the many miracles that surrounded it, but today I want to talk about the lesson we can learn from it. The Torah

Chabura Wars, donkeys in the bunk, and David Cutler appreciation day.... there are just some things that only NCSY Kollel guys understand.

When you walk into an NCSY Shabbaton, you never quite know what fads will make their way in. Here's a list of things we've found at every Shabbaton, from the 60s to today.

God created this world for us to enjoy it. We are charged to go out into the world, find the beauty in it and realize that this beauty is an expression of God’s awesomeness. It is an inherently Jewish concept to appreciate the beauty and awesomeness in the world, not regard it as evil and

Written by Batya (Beth Spiegelman) Medad, Blogger and NCSY Alumna   It’s hard to believe that NCSY National Conference of Synagogue Youth of the OU is celebrating sixty years of activities and bringing Jewish youth closer to Torah, G-d and the Mitzvot.  I became religious, shomeret mitzvot, aka Orthodox through what I saw, felt and learned in NCSY in the

Over the summer, Jews all over the world celebrate what is called “Shabbat Nachamu” or the Shabbat of Comfort. This is the first Shabbat that we have after Tisha B’av and it corresponds to the haftorah from Isiah (40:1) which begins. “נַחֲמוּ נַחֲמוּ, עַמִּי–יֹאמַר, אֱלֹהֵיכֶם – Comfort my nation, says God”. Why does God tell us to comfort his

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