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The cabinet voted in principle to withdraw from the Gaza
Strip on the 37th anniversary of the day Israel moved in on
the second day of the Six Day War. By a vote of 14-7, the
cabinet, without the fired tourism minister Benny Elon and
transportation minister Avigdor Lieberman, both of the
National Union, approved the resolution.
Following a report in Yated Ne'eman about a press
release sent out by Bank of Israel Spokesman Gabi Fishman on
Shavuos afternoon based on an order issued by the bank's
commissioner, Dr. David Klein, Fishman claimed, "The
Commissioner was unaware of the time at which the document
was publicized."
Former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron issued a shocking
call to cancel the Marriage and Divorce Law in the State of
Israel, claiming that it makes many secular Jews despise
Judaism. Leading halachic authorities were astonished to hear
the former Chief Rabbi continue to make declarations on the
fundamentals of religion after arriving at his ideas
independently, without consulting leading rabbonim.
A bench of 11 High Court judges held a hearing last Monday
morning as part of an appeal by heretical `streams of
Judaism' demanding that the so-called conversions they
conduct be recognized by the State of Israel. A majority of
seven judges decided that individuals who lived in Israel for
several years and underwent conversion in Eretz Yisroel or
abroad could receive new immigrant status based on the Law of
Return.
The 100 year old Choral Taharat HaKodesh Synagogue in Vilna
was recently closed by the Lithuanian Jewish community after
fistfights broke out there on Shavuos between supporters of
Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, chief rabbi of Vilna and Lithuania,
and the local Lubavitch Rabbi Sholom Krinsky. French Judges Charged with Acquitting Defendants Accused
of Antisemitic Acts A French court cancelled the expulsion of two Arabs from
Gymnasia Montaigne (high school) in Paris' Fifth Quarter for
mistreating a Jewish student for a prolonged period, and
fined the Education Ministry for their expulsion. UTJ Representative in Haifa Prevented Bridge Demolition on
Shabbos United Torah Jewry's representative in Haifa, Rabbi Aryeh
Blitental, prevented the City of Haifa from carrying out the
demolition of the Paz Bridge on Shabbos. Following his
staunch protests, Mayor Yona Yahav honored his request and
ordered the operation postponed to a later date. Campaign to Rehabilitate Religious Services At a meeting of the Knesset Religious Lobby participants
raised various proposals to continue the campaign begun three
weeks ago when chareidi MKs caused the breakdown of a plenum. Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit
The young man was indignant. "I have nothing against a
neighborhood eruv," he told the askan who came to ask
him why he had uprooted the poles that had been set up near
his house. "But that was certainly not an eruv pole. Eruv
poles are simple wood sticks. This was a five-inch galvanized
steel pole! That is not how you make an eruv."
Restoring the Crown
Covering -- or recovering -- the hair, that is the
question Oleinu Leshabeiach on Sefer Bamidbar Jewish Bratislava, Vienna and Eisenstadt
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