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29 Kislev 5760 - December 8, 1999 | Mordecai Plaut, director

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They Have No Benefit from the Damage they Cause Us

"Write on the horn of an ox that you have no part in the G-d of Israel." This was one of the demands that the Syrian Greeks made of the Jewish people in the period that led up to the Chanukah miracle, over 2,000 years ago.

What's the Real Thing?

"It's the real thing -- Coke!" A human tooth placed in a vessel containing Coca Cola for an extended period eventually disintegrates, utterly disappears! Place a lot of sugar in water, put in a special secret admixture of chemicals and, voila! -- the "real thing!"

The Chanukah Lights Repel the Darkness
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman

The fierce struggle against the secular Jews and their allies the Reform and Conservative factions, all of whom, in one way or another, seek to uproot Torah and breach the walls of Judaism is an additional chapter in the difficult test in the period before Moshiach comes.

Who Is a Wise Man?
by L. Jungerman

The program which Yosef envisioned as a preparation for the years of famine was considered by Pharaoh and his advisors as extraordinarily brilliant. "There is none as intelligent and wise as you." Yosef himself presented his plan with the requisite that whoever was appointed to execute it be a wise and intelligent person.

About HaRav Chaim Barzel from Australia

To The Editor:

The article about HaRav Chaim Barzel was very accurately portrayed and a pleasure to read and brought back a lot of memories.

Were the Reports of Beit Shemesh Violence Exaggerated?

To the Editor:

I'm writing in reaction to your front-page report of 24 Kislev regarding " . . . anti-chareidi violence in Beit Shemesh."

Don't Leave Hashem Out!

To The Editor:

We truly witnessed a miracle last year. Dr. and Mrs. B. Cymerman, the in-laws of Rabbi Chaim Michoel Gutterman, are our good neighbors.

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