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Tzvi Kushelevsky (צבי קושלבסקי)

Tzvi Kushelevsky (צבי קושלבסקי) is a senior Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who heads Yeshivas Heichal HaTorah BeTzion in Jerusalem, which he founded in 1981 and has led for over four decades.

U

U (u), 21st letter of the English alphabet and fifth vowel; historically one letter with V in Latin, split into vowel u and consonant v by 1630s printers; Unicode U+0055/U+0075.

Ü

Ü (U+00DC, lowercase ü U+00FC) is a Latin-script letter with two dots, used as an umlaut letter in German, Turkish, Hungarian, and Azerbaijani and as a diaeresis in Spanish and French; encoded in Unicode 1.1, Latin-1 Supplement.

U (Underscores album)

U is the third studio album by American hyperpop musician underscores (April Harper Grey), released March 20, 2026 on Mom+Pop; 9 tracks, 34 minutes, no features, a pop pivot written around San Francisco's Stonestown Galleria.

U + Me = <3

u + me = <3 ("you plus me equals heart") is an Olivia Rodrigo song, track five on her 2026 album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, written with Daniel Nigro, a jangle-pop love song linked by fans to Louis Partridge.

U 46619

U 46619, synonym 11α,9α-epoxymethano-PGH2, is a stable synthetic analog of prostaglandin H2 and potent TP receptor agonist, synthesized at Upjohn in 1975 as a thromboxane A2 mimetic.

U Admirala (у адмірала, n4108375892)

U Admirala (У адмірала) is a long-established Belarusian casino network founded in the mid-1990s, with venues in Minsk, Gomel, and Osipovichi, a bookmaker office, free entry, and table games including the Gomel-only poker variant Golden Oasis.

U Admirala (у адмірала, n4108397524)

U Admirala (у адмірала) was a Belarusian casino chain run by OOO NOVO-VR from the Orbita Hotel, Minsk, with venues in Gomel; bankrupt and closed May 2018. Also a Kladno guesthouse name.

U Are the Universe

U Are the Universe (Ти – Космос) is a 2024 Ukrainian-Belgian sci-fi dramedy, Pavlo Ostrikov's feature debut, about a space trucker left alone after Earth explodes; premiered at TIFF 2024, won the Silver Méliès.

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Nyan (ဦးဘဉာဏ်; 1897–1945) was a Burmese painter born in Pantanaw who trained at the Royal College of Art in London and is regarded as a founder of modern painting in Myanmar.

U Ba Pe

U Ba Pe (ဦးဘဖေ) was a Burmese nationalist politician and journalist who founded the newspaper Thuriya in 1911 and led the Twenty-One Party in the 1920s.

U Bein Bridge

U Bein Bridge, also called U Pain Bridge or Taungthaman Bridge, is a 1.2-kilometer wooden footbridge of teak crossing Taungthaman Lake near Amarapura, Myanmar, believed the world's oldest and longest teakwood bridge.

U Can't Touch This

"U Can't Touch This" is MC Hammer's 1990 pop-rap hit sampling Rick James's "Super Freak"; it peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100, won two 1991 Grammys, and made James a credited, paid co-writer.

U Cephei

U Cephei, in the constellation Cepheus, is a totally eclipsing Algol-type binary of a B7–8 V primary and a G8 secondary in a 2.493-day orbit, known for frequent mass transfer and transient accretion disks.

U Geminorum

U Geminorum (U Gem) is a cataclysmic variable star in Gemini and, with SS Cygni, one of the two prototypical dwarf novae, discovered by John Russell Hind in 1855.

U Herculis

U Herculis (U Her) is a Mira-type pulsating red giant in the constellation Hercules, varying from magnitude 6.4 to 13.4 over a period of about 406 days.

U Kala

U Kala was a Burmese chronicler and historian of Ava in Upper Burma whose Maha Yazawin (Great Chronicle), compiled between 1724 and 1730, was the first comprehensive dynastic history of Burma.

U Me Aur Hum (यू मी और हम)

U Me Aur Hum (यू मी और हम) is a 2008 Hindi romantic drama, Ajay Devgn's directorial debut, starring Devgn and Kajol as a couple facing Piya's Alzheimer's diagnosis; released 11 April 2008 by Eros International with music by Vishal Bhardwaj.

U Monocerotis

U Monocerotis (U Mon) is a bright RV Tauri variable star in the constellation Monoceros, a post-AGB yellow supergiant in a binary system with a dusty circumbinary disk.

U Mumba

U Mumba, the Mumbai Pro Kabaddi League franchise founded in 2014, won PKL Season 2 (2015) and reached three of the first five finals under captain Anup Kumar; home venue DOME by NSCI, Mumbai.

U Nu (ဦးနု)

U Nu (ဦးနု, 1907–1995), also Thakin Nu, was Burma's first prime minister (1948–56, 1957–58, 1960–62), a Buddhist revival leader and writer deposed by Ne Win's 1962 coup.

U of Goryeo

U of Goryeo (우왕, 禑王; personal name Wang U) was the 32nd king of the Goryeo dynasty, reigning from 1374 to 1388, deposed after the Wihwado retreat.

U Ophiuchi

U Ophiuchi is a detached eclipsing binary star in the constellation Ophiuchus, two nearly equal mid-B-type stars orbiting every 1.677 days and long used as a standard reference for stellar masses and radii.

U Orionis

U Orionis, abbreviated U Ori, is a Mira-type variable star in Orion, a pulsating red giant discovered in 1885 whose brightness swings by six magnitudes every 372 days.

U Ottama

U Ottama (ဦးအုတ္တမ), born Paw Tun Aung, was an Arakanese Buddhist monk who led Burma's anti-colonial movement and was the first nationalist charged with sedition in British Burma, in 1921.

U Po Hlaing

U Po Hlaing, also written U Hpo Hlaing or U Boe Hlaing, was a minister, judge, and political theorist of Burma's late Konbaung dynasty, serving Kings Mindon and Thibaw.

U Ponnya

U Ponnya (U Ponnya) was a celebrated Burmese poet and essayist of the Konbaung court, best known for creating the pyazat genre before his political execution in 1866–1867.

U Raschid

U Raschid, also known as M. A. Raschid, was a Burmese politician and Muslim community leader who served as a minister under U Nu from 1952 to 1962.

U Sagittarii

U Sagittarii is a classical Cepheid variable star in Sagittarius and a member of the open cluster Messier 25, with a pulsation period of 6.74 days.

U Saw

U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw (Burmese: ဦးစော), was a Burmese nationalist politician and premier who organized the 1947 assassination of Aung San and was hanged in 1948.