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17 Adar I 5763 - February 19, 2003 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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OPINION & COMMENT

Belgium Should Judge Itself

Belgium has decided that it can judge anyone who may have committed a crime, anywhere in the world. If anyone feels that anyone else in the world committed some sort of crime against humanity, then he can turn to the Belgian courts and ask for justice. This is because the Belgian state has declared that its courts have universal jurisdiction to judge anyone in the world, regardless of where the crime was committed.

Seeing Ourselves from Outer Space
by Yitzchok Roth

The tragic end of the space shuttle Columbia will not put an end to the American space program. Space exploration has always been the object of man's aspirations, whether out of curiosity or out of a desire to sense that man has the strength to break past any boundary.

The Choicest of Days
by R' Yerachmiel Kram

Reasons for the Commandment of Shabbos

"Between Me and the Children of Israel it is an everlasting sign" (Shemos 31:17).

MOMENT OF KIRUV
by Rabbi "W"

Tips to successfully handle your Moment of Kiruv.

Kosher or Posul?

To The Editor:

After sending my tefillin to be checked and worked on, I borrowed a pair of tefillin for a day from a choshuve Jew with yiras Shomayim and to my great dismay, when I opened the tefillin bag I found a very unpleasant surprise: the tefillin were worn and peeled, both the batim themselves and the straps.

Standing at Closed Gates

To The Editor:

Every Shabbos thousands arrive at the Kosel Maarovi, the remnant of our Beis Mikdosh, to pour out their hearts in prayer before Borei Olom. Of course we do not pass through metal detectors and this past Shabbos we were pressured to do so. We begged and pleaded! Shabbos Kodesh, an hour's walk, but to no avail.


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