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Hundreds Participate in Arachim's Lecturer Training Courses in Jerusalem and Modiin Ilit
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Lecturer Training Courses sponsored by Arachim in both Jerusalem and Modi'in Ilit scored a great success, being attended by hundreds of rabbonim, educators and Kiruv workers who expressed their thanks to the organization which arranged them. The courses, it was unanimously agreed, provided their participants with excellent tools for enhancing public speaking and influencing others.


Bnei Brak's Population Increased by 5,000 This Past Year
By Y. Schwartz

The Census Bureau of the Ministry of Interior has released statistics accurate to the beginning of this summer indicating that the number of residents in Bnei Brak has grown by 4814, and stands now at 173,743 citizens, as compared with 168,929 a year ago.


The Court Dismissed the Provocative Petitions Against the Plan for Charish
By L. S. Wasserman

The district court in Haifa dismissed the offensive petitions against the general building plan for the Charish housing construction development, thus allowing the project for a chareidi city to forge ahead and help solve the pressing need for additional housing for the chareidi public. The next day, the National Planning Commission rejected all the objections to the plan, removing all obstacles to moving ahead.


"Anyone With Eyes in his Head Knows for Sure That One Mustn't Start Up with Torah Scholars Whose Life is Dedicated to Full-time Torah Study"
By Eliezer Rauchberger

"Anyone with eyes in his head knows that you can't tamper with full-time Torah scholars. In the end, there won't be any change in legislation and at worst, yeshiva students will sit in jail."


France: The Jewish Community is Concerned over the Entry of Anti-Semitic Elements if Hollande Wins
By Arnon Jaffe, Paris

The predicted victory of the leftist candidate, Francois Hollande, in the upcoming French presidential elections, is serious cause for consternation in the Jewish community which fears that this will introduce elements hostile to Jewry. A week before the second round of the elections, the two sides, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande, brand one another with labels such as `Communist' and `Nazi'. They are both aggressively contesting for the six million votes which Le Pen garnered.


An Outcry Rally: Protest and Mass Mobilization in Support of the Rabbonim of Hadera
By L. S. Wasserman

Some hundred community rabbonim, heads of kollelim, chief rabbis of cities, moshavim and neighborhoods participated in a protest gathering in response to the dastardly acts perpetrated by hoodlums employed by the religious council forcibly imposed upon the city by the Ministry for Religious services. Vehement protests were voiced and a mass enlistment of encouragement was registered by all the district rabbis from near and far in support of the rabbonim of Hadera who were attacked, brutally manhandled and aggressively abused by these hired ruffians.


Extensive and Intensive Preparations for the Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem
By Yechiel Sever

Members of the joint committee of Degel HaTorah and Agudath Israel in Jerusalem are laying the groundwork for the upcoming major event of the 12th cycle of the Daf Hayomi Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem which will take place on Tuesday, the 12th of Av, headed by maranan verabbonon, leaders of Torah and Chassidus. This is to take place a day later than the large siyum in Petach Tikvah, as we reported last week.


Bizchus Adoneinu Bar Yochai - Miracles on the Yom Hillulah of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

In his letter concerning the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the Shloh Hakodesh writes: " . . . for many miracles have taken place there." Numerous are the cases of people who have been helped extraordinarily in the zchus of the Tana.


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When There are Unnatural Troubles . . .


by Mordecai Plaut

This essay was written ten years ago which was at the height of the terror attacks.

There is no doubt that the attacks we are experiencing are far from the normal course of human affairs. Though we do not see the Arab suicide bombers as studies in mesiras nefesh as some do -- we see them rather as low creatures who have no appreciation of any human life including their own -- still it is clear that the actions of the bombers and of the society that supports them are not within the bounds of normalcy. Neither is the response of some Europeans who dress up as suicide bombers at rallies to express their sympathy.



Opinion and Comment
The Meaning of Pesach Sheini


by S. Bilgrei

This article is based on a lecture by HaRav Shimshon Pincus zt"l.

The development of Pesach Sheini is described in Chumash Bamidbor, which is a unique Chumash in that it is actually comprised of three separate Chumoshim, each emphasizing a separate hidden and important message. According to Chazal there are, altogether, seven "Chumoshim," seven books of the Torah, as is stated, "Chochmos bonsoh beisoh, chotzvoh amudeho shiv'oh" (Mishlei 9:1).

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The Importance of Sheitels in our Troubled Times


by Rabbi Pesach Eliyahu Falk

A world renowned expert of tsnius and halachah in general, HaRav Falk argues that in our times there should be particular emphasis on these matters. Recalling the words of the Chofetz Chaim almost 80 years ago, he points out that the only instance in which we are threatened with abandonment is in the case of pritzus. Thus in our times, when the awful events give this impression, there is a special importance to strengthening the bounds of tsnius.






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