Tools for a happy Adar and beyond - by Rabbi Dave Felsenthal, Director of OU Alumni Affairs

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Food Talk with Linda Gassenheimer: Great cooking tips - recipes and more from celebrity chefs plus a Dinner in Minutes that won’t break your calorie or time bank …

Linda Gassenheimer is a NPR radio personality, Syndicated journalist and award-winning cookbook author. She is the producer and host of the weekly segment, “Food News and Views,” on WLRN 91.3 FM National Public Radio and has made guest appearances on numerous radio and television programs throughout the United States and Canada. Her column “Dinner in Minutes” is syndicated to over 4 million readers each week. Her latest books are Mix N’ Match Meals in Minutes for People with Diabetes (new edition, January, 2008), and The Portion Plan (January, 2007).

Visit Linda Gassenheimer on her website, www.DinnerInMinutes.com.

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Israel is in the midst of a battle for public opinion – waged primarily via the media. To ensure Israel is represented fairly and accurately OURadio is teaming up with Honest Reporting to monitor the media, expose cases of bias, promote balance, and effect change through education and action.

Gary Kenzer, the first National USA Executive Director of Honest Reporting began work for the organization in September 2006. Prior to his work with Honest Reporting, he was the National Director for Magen David Adom USA, another Israeli based organization. Other Jewish agencies he has worked with includes the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago, and B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO).

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PARENT IS A VERB, with Barry and Chanie Holzer, offers advice on how to be a pro-active parent. Parenting is the most important job we get in life, with the least preparation. Many parents today are afraid to parent, and remain passive in their roles, leaving their children without the strong role models and sense of security that strong parenting provides. Our goal is to guide parents on their journey with insights into themselves and how they are perceived by their children, and a discussion of the opportunities parenting presents, so you can raise your children suffused with love, filled with optimism, and the resilience and strength to fulfill their potential. For questions or comments email Barry and Chanie Holzer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Rabbi Barry Holzer, MD is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Holzer received his semicha from Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Theological Seminary and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the founder of the Center for Attention-Deficit & Behavior Disorders and maintains a practice in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. Dr. Holzer is also a co-founder and active board member of NEFESH - The International Organization of Orthodox Jewish Mental Health Professionals. He lectures widely on many topics including ADHD, Asperger's Disorder, Anxiety and Mood Disorders as well as Parenting issues. He has been a frequent speaker for the OU's Positive Parenting Program and a scholar-in-residence at communities across the country.

Chanie Holzer, MSW, LCSW is a graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work with a degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Postgraduate Institute in New York City. She has delivered workshops across the country on eating disorders, women's issues, parenting and marital issues. She maintains a busy private practice in Queens and Long Island, NY.

The Holzers are the proud parents of five children and one son-in-law.

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A weekly Parsha shiur by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, Rosh Yeshiva of WebYeshiva.org - the world's first fully interactive online yeshiva - is President of the ATID Foundation. For over forty years as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hamivtar and Michlelet Bruria he has been a pioneer of Torah education in Israel.

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Tisha B'av Kinot with introductions and explanations presented by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb. Rabbi Weinreb redeems from anonymity heroes and victims of a variety of Jewish catastrophes including the Temple destructions, Pogroms of 1648-49, French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, and the Shoah. Focusing on various aspects of the soul with song, poetry and explanations of the Kinot, he also tells stories of very "soulful" men and women from Biblical times to the present, who have all but been forgotten, as well as reflections on forgotten facets of our own souls and how we can reclaim them. Recorded at OU World Headquarters NY, NY on Sunday, August 10, 2008 as a live webcast by the Orthodox Union.

Please read these important notes from Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

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Sarah Chana Radcliffe is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She has a private practice in Toronto counseling parents, couples and individuals and she lectures locally and internationally on subjects relating to parenting, relationships and emotional well-being. Sarah Chana Radcliffe is the author of Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice, and The Delicate Balance - Love and Authority in Torah Parenting (Targum Press). Visit Sarah Chana at her web site www.parenting-advice.net.

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The eight young men murdered on March 6, 2008 in Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem were all fourth or fifth generation students of the revered founder of that Yeshiva, more than eighty years ago, Rav Abraham Isaac Kook. The teachings of Rav Kook emphasize love of the Land of Israel and the People of Israel. I thought it would be especially appropriate to memorialize these boys by perpetuating his teachings. To that end, I plan to deliver a brief weekly lesson, based on his teachings, for the duration of the year of mourning, concluding Rosh Chodesh Adar, 5769.

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