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Extreme Jewish Fundamentalism

The Taliban are an extreme Sunni Muslim sect that has ruled Afghanistan for close to a decade but is now on the way out after running a rogue regime that sheltered Osama Bin Laden and his obsession with worldwide Jihad (holy war) against the West. They tried to implement a society that was forced into observing their somewhat unique version of what a proper Islamic society should be.

Banish Cell Phones from the Beis Medrash
by Rav Aharon Chaim Nashri

"Omar Abaye . . . Omar Rovo . . . says the gemora . . . "

The time: 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. -- perhaps 10:00 p.m.

The place: Bnei Brak, Yerushalayim, Tiveria, Haifa, London, Antwerp, Montreal, Boro Park, Skokie, North Hollywood -- anywhere Jews are gathered.

The occasion: A Daf Hayomi shiur.

"If there is the slightest deviation, our behavior is no longer in accordance with the Torah altogether."

Following is a translation of part of the mussar shmuess delivered by Maran HaRav Shach (zt"l) in the Ponovezh Yeshiva on Sunday 19 Marcheshvon, 5752 (1992) as published in the Hebrew Yated Ne'eman.

What Will Be the End?
by L. Jungerman

We surely must continue to hope that things will change, that the present situation, which seems almost rock bottom, will change for the better. We must hope for the restoration of honor and glory for the entire world when all of humanity will be uplifted to a noble level, to a condition of unity and peace, which is the most difficult of all.

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