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Israel Defense Forces troops swept into various Palestinian
cities early on Tuesday, seizing more than 160 suspects in
the course of a large-scale raid on Hebron and a manhunt in
the Casbah of Nablus. The army said it was trying to head off
Hamas activity and to gather information on wanted men. Most
of those arrested are expected to be released soon. At a special emergency meeting held last Friday afternoon in
the home of HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, the Rosh Yeshiva
told representatives of various bnei Torah kehillos in
Bnei Brak, "Everyone has an obligation to participate in the
activities of Lev L'Achim [by covering] the cost of enrolling
at least one child in the Torah-based education [system]."
"We have heard repeated rumors that certain rabbonim
intend to set up another beis din in Germany," reads a
letter recently sent by European Rabbinical Conference heads,
"a move that would undoubtedly undermine the authority of the
beis din the European Rabbinical Conference set up in
5759 and would be liable to bring religious conditions in
Germany back to a state of chaos, for every individual would
be free to come forward and claim authority.
Grodno Grave Struggle According to a report from the BBC, municipal authorities in
Grodno, Belarus, are digging up the 300-year old local
cemetery -- which was in use until 50 years ago -- to expand
a football stadium. Jewish religious leaders from Britain
claim that thousands of Jewish graves have been
desecrated. Israeli Interest Rate Reduced by 0.5 Percent Despite heavy pressure to cut rates more, on Monday the Bank
of Israel announced that its key interest rate for July would
be 7.5 percent, only a 0.5 percent drop from the current rate
of 8 percent. Additional Cut in Income Support at End of Month At the end of June the cut in Guaranteed Income allotments
approved in December is scheduled to take effect and 108,000
low-income families will lose an average of NIS 600 of their
monthly income. Reform Congregations Denied Membership in Swiss Umbrella
Organization
At a large gathering of representatives from Jewish
organizations around Switzerland held before Shavuos, the
official Swiss Jewish community -- SIG -- officially rejected
a request by Reform groups for membership, reports the
Yiddishe Tzeitung. US Immigrant Murdered During Son's Sheva Brochos
Zvi Goldstein Hy"d, 47, of Eli, was murdered and his
parents and wife wounded, when a terrorist shot up their
vehicle north of Ofra last Friday afternoon. The family was
heading for Jerusalem to celebrate Shabbos sheva
brochos with their son, David, who had been married the
day before. Suspend Interior Minister says Rabbi Gafni MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni told Yated Ne'eman last week that
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should suspend Interior Minister
Avraham Poraz, based on suspicions that he voted twice during
Knesset deliberations on the economic decrees, when several
MKs were seen voting twice contrary to regulations and
possibly against the law. Education Minister: "Salaries for Directors of Cultural
Institutions Unreasonable" State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg, who is currently
preparing a report on the salaries of directors of culture
and arts institutions, to be published in another three
months, told the Knesset State Control Committee last week
that he has sent a preliminary draft to the subjects of the
report for their response. New York Jewry is Changing Fast
A new study of New York City Jews released last week by the
UJA-Federation of New York, and reported in our last issue,
found that the number of Jews in the greater New York City
area has remained constant from 1991 to the time the current
study was made in 2002.
"And For Your Daily Miracles"
Moshe and I were married in December 1946 and lived in
Newark, New Jersey. Several years earlier, he had bought a
chazoka [franchise] for shechita in a chicken
market from a shochet who was retiring. Out with the Red and in with the Yiddishkeit: A Profile of
Today's Haifa Torah For The Taking, Torah For The Giving: HaRav Zushe
Waltner Zt'l
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