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The Court Fulfilled the Expectations for It

Anyone familiar with the recent history of the Israel Prize, you might have formed some reasonable expectations about the chances of this year's nominee. However, if his knowledge was tempered by some familiarity with the trend of Israeli High Court decisions, he might have been much less surprised by the eventual outcome.

Truth and Peace
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman

The war the militant secular Jews and heretic so-called religious movements are waging against the Torah observant has in the last few years taken on a new and threatening form. They have decided that instead of defending their own ground they should attack ours. Although once they were content to ignore the warnings of the Torah-true to the Jewish Nation that they are jokers, forgers of Judaism and uprooters of Torah, now they audaciously dare to slander Torah Jewry.

The Elevating Nature of Shabbos
by HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira

Part I

"You did not give it, Hashem our Elokim, to the nations of the lands, nor did You make it the inheritance, our King, of the worshipers of graven idols. And in its rest the uncircumcised shall not abide" (Shemoneh Esrei, Shacharis of Shabbos).

The Scapegoat
by L. Jungerman

"And Aharon shall lay two lots upon the goats, one lot for Hashem and one lot for Azazel." (from parshas Acharei Mos)

When the Parents of the Converts Need Converting
by N. Ze'evi

Eleven justices of the Israeli Supreme Court recently heard arguments on the question of recognizing "non- Orthodox conversions."


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