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Antisemitism is Unstoppable

The world is sliding down a slippery slope greased by the yetzer hora.

Fifty years ago, it seemed that the West, and especially the United States, was a society that was fairly moral in the specific sense that it upheld the Seven Laws of Noach. The largely Protestant country was free of avoda zora, there was a very developed legal system that enforced laws against murder in all its forms, 80 percent of all households were headed by a married couple, and all public, acceptable behavior upheld reasonable moral principles.

"Who Shall Rise Up for Me Against Evildoers?"
by HaRav Boruch Shmuel Hacohen Deutsch, rosh yeshiva at Yeshivas Kol Torah, Jerusalem, and Imrei Tzvi, Kiryat Sefer

A transcript of Rav Deutsch's discourse at a his'orerus gathering last year in memory of HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz, the late av beis din of She'eiris Yisroel whose first yahrtzeit is 10 Tammuz. The discourse took place at the Ponovezh Alumni beis medrash in Kiryat Sefer.

Our Torah, Our Prayers And Our Tears: Our Torah
by HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg

Part I

The sefer Kuzari teaches us that there are four basic groups of entities in the world; inanimate objects, plant- life, animal-life, and verbal/thinking human beings (domeim, tzomei'ach, chai, medaber -- mineral, vegetable, animal and human). From the most basic to the more advanced, these four classes make up the world.

More Force - the Solution??

To The Editor:

Those Israelis who stress that we have to use more force and keep hitting the Arabs harder, imagine that this will stop the violence and put fear into the Arabs' hearts. As much as you try to explain to them that the it does not work like this, they are simply not interested.


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