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• OU, JFNA and Prizmah launch national fund to facilitate tax breaks for day school tuition – OU, JFNA and Prizmah created a national scholarship organization enabling taxpayers to direct a new $1,700 federal credit toward Jewish day schools.

• The hidden Jewish law woven into your clothes – Shatnez testing is growing amid complex global textile production; the OU recently convened testers, who inspect hidden garment components that labels often omit

• This could have significant Torah applications – How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors – a new Lithuanian AI tool transcribes historical handwritten Yiddish and Hebrew, helping families recover ancestral letters and researchers unlock previously inaccessible Jewish archives

Gil StudentSep 10, 26

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Gil Student

Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine, The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Jewish Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student currently is serving his third term on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. He serves on the Editorial Board of Jewish Action magazine and the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Articles of Faith: Traditional Jewish Belief in the Internet Era, previously served as the Book Editor of Jewish Action magazine, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

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