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Reuters Photographer in Lebanon Digitally Altered Images
For the second time in two days Reuters news agency had to
send all its clients an embarrassing "Picture Kill" advisory,
as two images sent in by its Beirut photographer, Adnan Hajj,
were exposed as having been digitally altered. Alert obervers
on web logs (known as "blogs") found that both images had
parts that were copied to make them appear more fearful than
they were, and to put Israel in a worse light than it
deserved.
BS"D, Menachem Av 5766
We currently face a collective time of difficulty in which
sonei Yisroel seek to put us in dire straits. Many
residents of Eretz Hakodesh are in constant danger and
clearly this is a time to cry out and sound the alarm that
this evil is our doing. Each of us must strengthen himself
and rectify his ways so that Our Father in Heaven will remove
this suffering from upon us. The heart knows the bitterness
of the soul.
It was exactly ten years ago. Yated Ne'eman was waging
a hard-nosed campaign against one of the major players in the
"conversion" industry, Rabbi Noach Landsberg, who was
operating at several botei din, particularly the
Jerusalem District Beis Din. The campaign included a series
of investigative reports that uncovered his activities.
With Katyusha missiles falling on towns and cities in the
north of Eretz Yisroel for nearly a month, chessed
organizations are busy helping families that fled south as
well as others that stayed home, spending much of their days
and nights in bomb shelters.
The Finance Ministry is planning to cut the budget for Income
Support Benefit for avreichim by five percent as part
of the government directives for a five percent across-the-
board cut in the 2006 Budget. MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni has
protested the plan to senior staff in the Finance Ministry,
and has been promised that a decision will soon be reached as
to whether to accede to his request and cancel the proposed
cut.
The Knesset Education Committee is scheduled to hold a
meeting to assess and seek ways to reduce discrimination
against the chareidi education system. The meeting was set
following a proposal by former Education Ministry Director
Ronit Tirosh, who said she is very familiar with the
situation and confirmed that the chareidi education system is
indeed discriminated against in numerous areas.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) says
that where a school district's proposed school placement
would not provide a child with a free appropriate public
education, the child's parents may unilaterally place the
child in a private school and the school district would then
be required to reimburse the parents for the cost of the
private school tuition.
The Knesset Finance Committee approved an additional NIS 32
million ($7 million) in Education Ministry funding for
yeshivas and kollelim.
Zol Po Changes its Name and Direction The Zol Po chain is halting activity in the chareidi sector
and opening a new chain. The Zol Po name, which has etched
itself into the consumer consciousness, will continue to be
used at a few stores in the general sector and will be
completely upgraded in the chareidi sector.
We Fight Cruelty with Chessed; and Fight Death with Life
It could have been nothing but hatred that motivated
Hizbullah to attack along the northern border and take two
prisoners. There was no action or event that provided any
pretext for their attack — just their evident desire to
murder and maim Jews, made so painfully clear in the weeks
since then. HaRav Shach's Battle Against False Messianism
When the Lubavitch movement began its messianic propaganda,
Maran girded himself to fight this group and the one who
headed it. During this period, when Maran first came out with
his opposition in public, the messianic message was still
somewhat covert with innocent sounding mottos and slogans.
The public was not yet aware what lay behind them.
This true story, with names and details changed, happened
about twenty years ago, and was first printed in the Hebrew
Yated.
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