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Citing a budget shortfall, the Education Ministry has decided
to close down the network of Orthodox-sponsored conversion
schools it has been funding, telling teachers they are being
dismissed at the end of this month, according to a recent
article in the Jerusalem Post. Special Committee To Prepare Draft Law Approved On 16 Tammuz, the Knesset approved the makeup of a special
committee to prepare the proposed Draft Deferral Law for its
second and third reading. 37 MKs supported the appointments;
there were no negative votes and two abstained. The Special
Committee, comprised of representatives of fifteen parties in
the Knesset, is headed by the chairman of the Knesset
Committee, MK Salach Tarif (Yisrael Achat). Maranan Verabonon: We Must Increase the Ranks of Shmitta
Observers Maranan verabonon the gedolei Yisroel, have
called upon the public to strengthen the mitzvah of
shmitta and to increase the number of shmitta
observers in the country. The telephone call came through to Lev L'Achim's anti-
missionary/anti-cult division in early June. The caller was
employed at a kosher food processing plant in the northern
Israeli town of Shlomi. His request could be summed up in one
word: Help!
World Aguda Conference Opens in U.K. More that 100 Agudath Israel rabbinic and lay leaders from
around the world have arrived in Bournemouth, England for a
conference of the international board of the Agudath Israel
World Organization (the Vaad Hapoel Ha'olami) that began
Monday afternoon.
Eretz Yisroel is in danger. It is a time of flux, a time of
change.
Hundreds of thousands thronged to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv a
little over a week ago to express their concern and feeling
for Eretz Yisroel. It was politics too, but there was an
unmistakable concern for Eretz Yisroel itself. PARENTING WITH MENUCHA - How can we teach a child to appreciate what he gets? How can
we train him to say "Thank you" and mean it? Many children
actually do not know how to be grateful and thankful for all
the good that is done on their behalf. They think that money
grows on trees and that time set aside for them is a
plentiful resource. Torah's Grace Personified -- HaRav Shimon Moshe Diskin Zt'l
Of Yeshivas Kol Torah -- 15th Tammuz 5760, His First
Yahrtzeit
The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world
begins when it is Thursday, 12:35 P.M., 2 Av (August 3). The
actual time in most of the world is therefore from the
beginning of Thursday night, the eve of 3 Av. In the eastern
countries one can make Kiddush Levonoh only according
to the difference in time zones in comparison to Eretz
Yisroel.
At this month there is a solar eclipse whose peak is at 5:14
A.M. and the appearance of the astronomical new moon is at
5:25 A.M., that precedes the molad this month by more
than seven hours. There is therefore reason to consider
making Kiddush Levonoh earlier in the eastern
countries and the night before in the extreme western
countries (Birur Halocho, IV, Orach Chaim
426).
"One should not make Kiddush Levonoh before Tishah
B'Av or on Motzei Tishah B'Av" (Ramo). The
minhag of Belz is like the Ramo but the Mishnah
Berurah rules in the name of the Achronim to make
a berochoh on Motzei Tishah B'Av. The Vilna
Gaon and the Perushim in Eretz Yisroel, the Chazon Ish
and the Steipler Rav, made Kiddush Levonoh before
Tishah B'Av when it was three days after the
molad as on every month (Birur Halocho, V,
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