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The Right to Work in a Safe Environment

HaRav Shlomo Levenstein is the head of the National Union for Protected Work, whose purpose is to help chareidi workers to work in a sheltered environment while still enabling them to do their jobs. They have regular volunteers and advisors who are experts in the field, and support the workers and advise on ways that they can do their jobs while maintaining a filtered Internet.

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What did Rabbi Akiva Eiger Really Look Like? HaRav Abramsky's Dream #1

Rabbi Akiva Eiger was niftar in 1838 (5738), before the invention of photography. However there are a number of paintings that purport to show his likeness.

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Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Meeting at Agudath Israel Headquarters

On Tuesday afternoon September 5-14 Elul, the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah met in the downtown Manhattan offices of Agudath Israel of America.

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From Our Archives


Taking the Natural Events to Heart

To The Editor:

"No trouble comes to the world except on behalf of Yisroel" (Yevomos 63) -- "in order to frighten them to do teshuvah" (Rashi). And basic yirah and pachad Shomayim are sorely missing in the world today.


The Torah's Advice: How To Arouse Oneself To Teshuvah

HaRav Emanuel Toledano
Part I

1) It is interesting that before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we read the Torah portions of the tochecho (rebuke). On a year that has two months of Adar (such as 5760) we read parshas Nitzovim on the Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah (of 5761), as we also do this year. In this parsha the Torah tells about the entire Jewish Nation being wrathfully exiled by Hashem.


The Founding of Torah Vodaas - - Reb Binyomin Wilhelm, Torah Pioneer in the Early Twentieth Century

by M. Samsonowitz

A history of Yeshivas Torah Vodaas, the premiere yeshiva of New York between the years 1929-1945 must begin with the amazing story of its founder, Reb Binyamin Wilhelm.

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