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12 Shevat 5763 - January 15, 2003 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Yisro, 5763

Sunday, 16 Shevat - Shabbos, 22 Shevat
(Jan. 19-25, 2003)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Makkos 18-24
Yerushalmi:
Pesochim, 22-28

MISHNA YOMIS
Bechoros, 9:7 - Erechin 3:2

HALACHA YOMIS
Kitzur Shulchan Oruch, 193:10- 196:4

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Beshalach (Shirah)
Yerushalayim:
4:24 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:38 P.M.

London:
4:07 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:15 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:25 P.M.

Parshas Yisro
Yerushalayim:
4:30 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:44 P.M.

London:
4:19 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:15 P.M.
Melbourne:
8:22 P.M.

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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

REFORM & CONSERVATIVES

GRAVES

LIVING JUDAISM

WOMEN IN
JUDAISM

GIYUR
LEGAL ISSUES
YESHIVA DRAFT
CULTURE WARS
-MISCELLANEOUS
CULTURE WARS
-MONEY
CULTURE WARS
-SHABBOS
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COMMUNITY PROFILE
-(DEMOGRAPHY)
SHMITTA
OBITUARIES
FEATURES

NEWS


Likud Support Rises in Latest Polls; Labor Falls
by Yated Ne'eman Staff and M Plaut

The wishful thinking of the politicians and the press proved short-lived, as the polls released on Monday showed the Likud rising sharply from its lows of late last week and beginning to "recover" its commanding lead. Labor lost all its minor gains and even fell lower.


It's Not the What, It's the Why of Yiddishkeit
An in-depth analysis of the at-risk issue by the director of Lev Shomea

by Moshe Schapiro

When you're a teenager trying to cope with conflicting emotions, frustration, anger and a low self-image, it hurts to call a crisis hotline. But, as one popular ad says, it hurts more not to.


UTJ Presents Election Campaign to the Media
by Aryeh Zissman, A. Cohen and Y. Ariel

United Torah Jewry MKs presented a series of platform messages at a large press conference held at its national campaign headquarters in Givatayim last week, stressing the party's efforts to reach out to the general population through its numerous activities on social issues during the outgoing term.

Jewish Population of Jerusalem Declining
by Yated Neeman Staff

About 40 percent of children up to the age of four in Jerusalem are Palestinians, and 41 out of 100 births in the capital are to Palestinan mothers. Annual birth rates in Jerusalem's Palestinian sector are much higher than rates in the Jewish population: 31 births per 1,000 people in the Arab population, versus 19 births per 1,000 in the Jewish sector.

ZAKA's Jerusalem Headquarters -- A Center of Concern
By Menachem Lubinsky

It is a far cry from the "bunker" (Israelis pronounce it boonker), which still serves as a nerve center for the volunteers of ZAKA Rescue and Recovery. Unlike the cramped underground quarters of the bunker, ZAKA's main offices now operate out of a converted apartment in Jerusalem's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood.

HaRav Gavriel Ginsberg, zt"l
by Mordecai Plaut

On 6 Shvat last Thursday, a life full of limud Torah and harbotzas Torah conducted according to the full meaning of the posuk, "Hatznei'a leches im Hashem Elokecho" (Micha 6:8), came to an end with the passing of HaRav Dov Gavriel Ginsberg in Toronto.


OPINION & COMMENT

The Underlying Trend

A huge poll run by Teleseker that asked a sample of 10,000 Jewish adults over the age of 18 (about ten times as many as are asked in a typical weekly political poll) found that 28.3 percent of the youth agedb 1` 18-21 (as opposed to 21.7 percent of the general population) believe that even entertainment businesses should be closed on Shabbat.


OBSERVATIONS


HOME & FAMILY

Appreciation and Gratitude
by R. Chadshai

These parshiyos emphasize, again and again, the importance of gratitude, even to inanimate objects. Moshe Rabbenu refrained from inflicting the first three plagues so as not to be guilty of ingratitude. We show our appreciation to the dogs who did not bark when we left Egypt etc.

A basic character trait. A prerequisite for the Giving of the Torah.


IN-DEPTH FEATURES

The Jews of Bukhara -- Part IV
Escape from Bukhara

by C. Ofek

Manning the Watchtower: HaRav Eliashiv's Battle for Torah and Halocho
by Binyomin Y. Rabinowitz


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