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Ginzach Kiddush Hashem Launches Holocaust Documentation Initiative
"Time is running out, this is our opportunity to save the memories of Holocaust survivors," says Rabbi Dovid Skolsky, director of Ginzach Kiddush Hashem in Bnei Brak, to mark a gigantic documenting operation Ginzach announced this week. "The task incumbent on us is to fulfill the mitzvah of `Zechor es asher osoh lecho Amolek,'" he said.
MK Gafni: 'Chareidi Citizens Prevented from Living in Various Communities'
Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni sent a letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein asking him to put a halt to the practice of preventing chareidi residents from living in various places around the country. In his letter Rabbi Gafni writes, "In recent years we have been witness to a disturbing trend of preventing chareidi residents from living in various communities."
The 17 defendants in the retrial of the gang of barbarians who tortured and murdered the young Jew Ilan Halimi five years ago were instructed to stand on their feet for the reading of the verdict in the court in Cartier. After consulting with the jury, which convicted 16 and acquitted one, the judge read the sentence of each and every defendant. The prison time added to the earlier sentences for the three primary tormentors was met with protest by their lawyers.
A very brief span of time separated some 80 chareidi passengers from chilul Shabbos after their plane was delayed at takeoff in Zurich. The passengers, who were very anxious during the course of the flight, landed in Israel just minutes before candlelighting time and some spent all of Shabbos at the airport, where mattresses were laid out in a room and basic Shabbos needs were hastily arranged.
"Children of Moroccan descent curse Jews in the street, but antisemitism buzzes in all strata of Dutch society," Rabbi Raphael Evers tells a Le Monde correspondent sent to report on what is happening to Holland's Jews after former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein suggested that religious Jews with outward signs of their Jewishness leave the country. Dutch Jews now find themselves hounded from two sides — by Muslim immigrants and by the native-born Dutch.
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