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Petition Against Building the Jerusalem SporTech


Responding to the emphatic declaration of protest of our gedolei Yisroel, headed by HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, to the plan of erecting a SporTech center near and adjacent to the chareidi neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem which would drastically impair the sanctity of Shabbos and Jerusalem and the very character of our holy city, thousands of residents have to date signed a petition voicing their objection to the erection of the planned SporTech center in Jerusalem. Activists in the neighborhoods, organizing the mass signatures against this, have announced that they intend to collect thousands of signatures of residents objecting to said project.

Reform in Mental Health Treatment

There will be a dramatic change in the care of mental health in Israel: Deputy Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) announced in a press conference of a reform in mental health care starting July 1st. The encompassing change will be expressed in the transfer of the diagnosis and care of mental health issues from the authority of hospitals to that of the Kupat Cholim Health Funds. Consequently, the accessibility for treatment of such problems will be made far greater for those living in areas distant from the hospital care centers.

Summer Fruit

The Shmittah Committee of Kashrus leMehadrin headed by HaRav Yosef Efrati seeks to remind the chareidi public that a large assortment of summer fruit such as peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines, plums, grapes and lemons are already from the Shmittah harvest and must be bought only from stores with proper supervision where either non-Jewish (nochri) or Otzar Beis Din produce is sold. In a few weeks, the harvest of apples, pears, kiwi, mango, avocado and other new fruits will also arrive and towards the end of 5775, fresh citrus fruit and persimmons etc. will also find their way to the markets.

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Opinion and Comment

For How Long the Doubt?

Adapted from Reb Yeruchom in Daas Torah, Parshas Beshalach

Years ago, [a period of] great tension existed between Germany and the other super powers. Its source lay in German demands to reconsider the Treaty of Versailles. After the end of the First World War, the two sides had met in Versailles to sign a peace treaty which took its name from the location of its signing. Needless to say, the treaty was only signed after difficult negotiations and careful examination, lengthy bargaining and meticulous care over its wording.


Opinion and Comment
A Call To Action

A circular sent from the gathering of Reb Yeruchom's talmidim in Mir on the eighteenth of Sivan 5697, to mark his first yahrtzeit.


Opinion and Comment
Army Service is About Social Engineering; not About Pikuach Nefesh

by Mordecai Plaut

Now it is clear what the real reason for Israeli army reserve duty always was. Now that the Government has approved the new reserve law, the Knesset has approved its first reading, and it is expected to be fully approved by the end of the calendar year, it is clear what was behind the way things were done for so many years.




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