n this past decade, Beit Shemesh has become a major city of immigration from the U.S. Thousands of American bnei Torah families from Lakewood and Baltimore, New York and Chicago, have built their homes there and their communities proliferate from year to year. Spoken English is commonly heard on the streets of Ramat Beit Shemesh and the shuls of these communities, each one totaling very significant numbers, replete with gabboim and ongoing shiurim, add up to figures of many thousands.

We asked the HaRav Kornfeld to expand about the principle of the issue.

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The Channel 14 survey which was published this Monday indicates a strengthening of the Right to 62 mandates while the Left rose from 44 to 45. The Arab lists dropped from 14 to 13 mandates.

According to the poll, the Likud ...

What didn't they say about the relations between Trump and Netanyahu? Who can even count all the times that the 'savant' newspaper commentators insisted that the American President was fed up with the Israeli head of state?

This is a quote from New York Times analysts from the very mouth of the American president in a talk with Netanyahu: "I am disgusted with your conduct. I did everything to protect yoõ Everyone is equally repulsed by you, Bibi! Everyone hates you but I stood by your side. Even the Jews who toe my line were already sick of you."

The Israeli reporter Barak Ravid, wrote: "Trump feels that Netanyahu abandoned him and betrayed the personal rapport between them after all the dramatic acts which Trump did for Israel's sake." ...

Part II

This was originally published in 1993.

He was a master educator, instilling in his talmidim an approach to learning, while guiding and directing their study of mussar and their character development. He opened up new worlds for them, of depth and precision in their learning and in the heights he showed them they could reach. He demanded from them complete application and the correct use of their time in all aspects of life.

His talmidim were able to see that he demanded no less from himself than he did from them. They loved him intensely and felt the sacrifice he made for them, transmitting his very essence to them.

Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky zt'l, the Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Galante and Choust and the Rav of Yerushalayim, leader of the old yishuv in Eretz Yisroel. A rosh yeshiva who refrained from discussing his own chidushim with other Torah scholars. He had no permission to do so, he would explain, for his chidushim were the property of his talmidim.

B>His Life

HaRav Yosef Zvi Dushinsky zt'l was born on the 25th of Kislev 5627 (1867). His father was R' Yisroel, a nephew of the Maharam Shi"ck. As a youngster, he was renowned in his hometown of Faksch for his extraordinary talents, devotion to his learning and his deep yiras shomayim.

Following in the footsteps of his older brother R' Mattisyohu, he set out in 5640 for the yeshiva of Buniahd. There he learned Torah from the gaon HaRav Moshe Pollack, author of Vayedaber Moshe, and his father, the gaon HaRav Zeikel Pollack, an important disciple of the Chasam Sofer. Within a short time he became known as the best bochur in the yeshiva for his toil and diligence. (He was known by the honorary title of "Rosh Yeshiva," as it was then customary to call the yeshiva's top student.)

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