A delegation of American Orthodox Jews visited areas of Israel’s North devastated by this summer’s war with Lebanon. In Israel for the start of the Orthodox Union’s biennial convention, O.U. members on Wednesday toured northern Israeli towns that bore the brunt of the Hezbollah assault, witnessing relief projects initiated with hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid money collected on the O.U.’s Web site.
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