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Guaranteed Income for Avreichim Law Draws out Hatred of Chareidim
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Despite the fact that it was mandated by the High Court, and despite the fact that it merely formalizes an arrangement that has been in place for some thirty years and adds no extra money to the government budget, the law authorizing the continuation of guaranteed income payments to avreichim draws fiery, hostile debate whenever it is discussed.


Degel HaTorah MKs Report to HaRav Eliashiv on Meeting with PM
By Yechiel Sever

"There is no room for the Knesset and MKs to deliberate conversion, which is clearly a halachic issue," said a spokesman for Vaad Harabbonim LeInyonei Giyur, in reaction to ongoing anti-Jewish remarks by Education Minister Gidon Saar, who has now announced his opposition to the Conversion Law, which states that only the Orthodox Rabbinate is authorized to conduct conversions.


Vaad Harabbonim: 'No Room for Knesset Interference in Conversion'
By Yechiel Sever

"There is no room for the Knesset and MKs to deliberate conversion, which is clearly a halachic issue," said a spokesman for Vaad Harabbonim LeInyonei Giyur, in reaction to ongoing anti-Jewish remarks by Education Minister Gidon Saar, who has now announced his opposition to the Conversion Law, which states that only the Orthodox Rabbinate is authorized to conduct conversions.


HaRav Shmuel Auerbach: 'We Must Follow the Path of Gedolei Hadoros, Not New Things'
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

"The world is full of external things that interfere with Torah study, and when we sit at the blatt of gemora we cleave to HaKadosh Boruch Hu, the Giver of the Torah, and therefore the yetzer hora tries to interfere. But we have an obligation to fight and not bow to it chas vesholom.


UTJ Meets with PM over Housing, Education and Guaranteed Income
By Yechiel Sever

The United Torah Judaism faction met early this week with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his Knesset bureau, where they raised for discussion problems related to housing, education and Guaranteed Income. The meeting was attended by Eyal Gabbai, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office; Tzvi Hauser, government secretary; Natan Eshel, director of the Prime Minister's Office; and P. Lerner, an advisor to the Prime Minister.


Emergency Call Buttons Free for Holocaust Survivors
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Hundreds of Holocaust survivors can now contact the Yad Sarah crisis headline and receive dental care at a very substantially discount at the Yad Sarah dental clinic thanks to a donation designated for the Foundation for Holocaust Survivors in France.


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