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OPINION
& COMMENT
A Clueless Prime Minister
Prime Minister Ehud Barak cannot decide if he wants to unify
Israel or divide it. It was no more than sixteen months ago,
right after he was elected, that he said that he would be
everyone's prime minister, but only two months later he
showed that he was not the religious community's prime
minister when he ordered the gratuitous and insulting
chilul Shabbos in transporting an oversized turbine
component on Shabbos.
The Torah Universe: Bigfoot In The Mir
by Rabbi Nosson Slifkin
Mir Yeshiva, Jerusalem. My chavrusa and I were puzzling over
the first mishnah in chapter four of maseches
Shabbos. It states that one may not on Shabbos insulate a
cooked food with straw, dung, and the like, "because they
increase the heat of the food." My chavrusa and I were
trying to understand how that is possible.
The Yeshivos Hakedoshos -- The Nation's Lifeline
by HaRav Shmuel Berenbaum
This shmuess was delivered by HaRav Shmuel Berenbaum at
Yeshivas Beis Hillel in Bnei Brak during a chizuk
meeting before the beginning of the summer zman.
Who Created the Luminaries
by L. Jungerman
"And Elokim saw the light that it was good, and Elokim made a
division between the light and the darkness."
Rashi: Here, too, we require the exegesis of Aggada:
He saw that the light was not worth benefiting the wicked
and so He set it aside for the righteous in the World to
Come.
WHEN MEDIA BECOMES MALIGNANT
by Rabbi Avi Shafran
It is now well known that the bloodied and dazed
"Palestinian" depicted in the Associated Press photograph
published in The New York Times and other major papers
on the first day of Rosh Hashana was in reality a yeshiva boy
from Chicago. And that Tuvia Grossman's assailants were not
Israelis but members of a Palestinian mob who dragged the
young man out, beat and stabbed him. And that the infuriated
Israeli policeman with a baton in the background was shouting
not at the bloodied youth but at the Palestinians who
brutally attacked him.
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