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OPINION & COMMENT The Judiciary Must be Free of Even an Appearance of Bias Though our basic message about Chief Justice Aharon Barak and the Israeli High Court is always the same -- that on a legal and democratic basis they do not confine themselves to the areas that befit the judiciary of a democratic society, and that their behavior and decisions are strongly colored by their world-view -- they periodically provide such clear, dramatic and novel illustrations of the problems, that we can discuss the same topic repeatedly without fear of boring our readers. It Is Hashem's Land The Four Amos of Halocho There is another point interwoven with this. The pillar of chessed is an additional pillar that we have, and it too receives its spiritual power from the pillar of Torah.
The Value of a Word In Mishne Lamelech on the Rambam (chapter 10) a very interesting question is posed: We find mentioned in several places in the Torah vows made between different people to one another, even before the giving of the Torah which mandates that one must keep one's word. "Meoros HaDaf HaYomi" Insights into the Week's Learning
Is Lieberman Good for the Jews? "Lieberman gets off river and finds a synagogue," by Brigitte Greenberg, (AP). Vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman and his family veered off the campaign trail Saturday to attend services at the only Jewish synagogue within 90 miles . . . Barak, the Pathetic King The initial storm over Ehud Barak's declaration of a "secular revolution" evaporated into nothing. And the media lost no time in unleashing a scathing attack on their formerly beloved Prime Minister, who is quickly sinking into political irrelevancy. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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