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5 Iyar 5760 - May 10, 2000 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Behar
5760

Sunday, 9 Iyar - Shabbos, 15 Iyar
(May 14-20, 2000)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Kesuvos, 45-51
Yerushalmi:
Nozir, 41-47

MISHNA YOMIS
Pesochim, 10:9 -- Shekolim, 3:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 296:4-298:11

Pirkei Ovos:
4

Ta'anis Sheini Kamma falls on Monday, 10 Iyar (May 14) and Ta'anis Chamishi falls on Thursday, 13 Iyar (May 18).

Pesach Sheini falls on Friday, 14 Iyar (May 19). Tachanun is not said and the minhag is to eat matzos during this day. The Chidah writes that we should increase our simchah on Pesach Sheini since it is kodosh to Hashem.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Emor
Yerushalayim:
6:52 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:07 P.M.

Parshas Behar
Yerushalayim:
6:56 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:12 P.M.

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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

REFORM & CONSERVATIVES

GRAVES

LIVING JUDAISM

WOMEN IN
JUDAISM

GIYUR
LEGAL ISSUES
YESHIVA DRAFT
CULTURE WARS
-MISCELLANEOUS
CULTURE WARS
-MONEY
CULTURE WARS
-SHABBOS

NEWS


Major Finance Reform Proposal
by M. Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

Last Thursday the committee headed by Treasury Director- General Avi Ben-Bassat published its long awaited plans for reform of the tax system and capital markets of Israel.

Protest Against Bogus IDF Rabbinate Conversions and Netiv
by B. Rabinowitz

This past chol hamoed Pesach, "Shai," the Organization for the Preservation of the Jewish Identity of Israel, organized two demonstrations. One was held in front of the offices of the IDF Rabbinate in Tel Aviv, while the other was held opposite the offices of Netiv.


Highlights of the Lev L'Achim Rally
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The annual Lev L'Achim rally was held on Monday 26 Nisan in Bnei Brak. Thousands came to hear maranan verabonon speak at the event which lasted more than six hours from three in the afternoon. This event brings together thousands of activists from all over the country.

The Notzrel Loshon Rally: A Revolution in Speech Patterns
by Betzalel Kahn

Rabbi C. is a ram in a prominent yeshiva in Jerusalem. Today, he teaches Torah to his many yeshiva students. But he is also the man who designed the posters which have been distributed during this past year throughout all chareidi centers in the country with slogans like: "It's Up to Us to Stop the Fire."

Thousands at the Uchesavtem Gathering
by A. Cohen

Thursday night (29-30 Nisan) was an impressive event at which the Uchesavtem organization awarded stipends to some of the finest students of the country's yeshivos. It was attended by maranan verabonon, roshei yeshiva, marbitzei Torah and bnei yeshiva from the entire spectrum of chareidi Jewry.

Mossad snatches Sifrei Torah from Saddam
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Dozens of sifrei Torah that Saddam Hussein ordered destroyed have been smuggled out of Iraq in an operation masterminded by Mossad, the Israeli secret service, according to the London Sunday Times.


Jerusalem Religious Council Says: "We Will Never Sit with Representatives of Heretical Movements"
by Betzalel Kahn

In the wake of the State Comptroller's censure of the Religious Councils for not holding joint meetings with representatives of the Reform movement, members of the Jerusalem Religious Council have made it absolutely clear that the council has always and will always conduct itself in accordance with halocho as directed by the ruling of the gedolei haTorah.


OPINION & COMMENT

One Cannot Deny Historical Reality!

A little over a month ago, a British court came to the welcome conclusion that amateur historian David Irving was not libeled when he was called a "Holocaust denier" by American professor Deborah Lipstadt.


HOME & FAMILY

Tuna Patties Revisited
by Leah Subar

"So," said my future husband with a grin, "do you like to cook?"

I knew nothing about cooking and told him so frankly. "However," I added with the self assurance found only among the young, "I'm sure that someday I'll be gourmet."


IN-DEPTH FEATURES

Can This Time Bomb Be Defused? Growing Concern Over The Crisis Of Jewish Identity
Yated's Yisroel Friedman and Benny Rabinowitz gather comments, impressions, ideas and information from public figures in Eretz Yisroel and abroad, concerning the search for a workable solution to a problem that is increasingly affecting the very foundations of Israeli society.


Additional Luach Information

The last day for Kiddush Levonoh -- Iyar

One can make Kiddush Levonoh in the entire world until Thursday afternoon, 13 Iyar (May 18), at 6:50 A.M., according to the Summer Clock, Israeli time. The final time in most of the world is therefore actually the entire Wednesday night. In the far western countries Kiddush Levonoh can be said according to the difference in time zones in comparison to Eretz Yisroel. In the eastern countries one can make Kiddush Levonoh on Thursday night, the eve of 14 Iyar, according to the difference in time zones in comparison to Eretz Yisroel.

The astronomical full moon is at 10:34 A.M., five hours and forty-eight minutes earlier than the nigud emtzo'i and eleven hours and twenty-six minutes earlier than the full fifteen days from the molad. This month one should not make a berochoh even bedi'eved following the fifteen full days after the molad, and it seems that he should only make a berochoh with shem and malchus until the nigud emtzo'i.

(Birur Halocho, IV, Orach Chaim 426 (pg. 300).

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