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An Italian court in Genoa and the Italian attorney general's
office have recently behaved in a way that does not even give
the appearance of fairness,... Jewish Philanthropist Dies in a Senseless Tragedy
Jewish banker Edmond Safra, 67, one of the world's richest
men and constantly fearful of assassins, died early last
Friday of smoke inhalation in his luxurious Monaco penthouse. Pride, Problems and the American Jewish Future: The Thursday
Plenary Sessions at the 77th Agudath Israel Convention Mere days after the United Jewish Communities General
Assembly met in Atlanta to discuss how best to direct
communal funds raised by Jewish federations,... False Charges Against Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Klein Secretary of the Beersheba Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Shlomo
Zalman Klein, reacted very sharply at the end of last week to
negative media reports claiming he had accepted bribes in
exchange for conducting fictitious conversions. In Knesset Finance Committee deliberations held on 22 Kislev
about the budget of the Religious Affairs Ministry, Rabbi
Moshe Gafni raised the serious problem of budgetary
discrimination against Torah institutions and religious
services.
MK Rabbi Gafni: Much Mistreatment of Religious
Soldiers A religious solder serving in the Central Command Tank Corps
was sentenced to 28 days in prison after he had merely asked
to daven before sof zman tefilla,the time
limit for shacharis. New Conversion Court and Course are No Solution The Vaad HaRabbonim Haolami LeInyonei Giyur headed by HaRav Chaim
Kreiswirth recently condemned the activities of the Eretz Chemdah
Institute, which intends to set up conversion botei din to
"solve the problems" of non- Jewish immigrants arriving from
the C.I.S. Magen Lacholeh's Binyamin Fischer Helps Save Life of Shuvu
Director There were numerous stories in the press in recent weeks
about a seudas hoda'ah held in the home of HaRav
Avrohom Pam, rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn,
in honor of the miraculous recovery of Rabbi Chaim Michoel
Gutterman, Shuvu's director in Eretz Yisroel. They Have No Benefit from the Damage they Cause Us
"Write on the horn of an ox that you have no part in the G-d of
Israel." This was one of the demands that the Syrian Greeks made
of the Jewish people in the period that led up to the Chanukah miracle,
over 2,000 years ago. Chanuka Memory This piece is nostalgia-reversed. Whereas we like to think
back on old times as the good ol' days, this forward looking writer
finds joy in the present and is happy to have come this far.
False Identity
The earliest time of Kiddush
Levonoh -- Teves
The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world begins
on Motzei Shabbos parshas Mikeitz, the eve of 3 Kislev (Dec.
11), from the beginning of the night, in Eretz Yisroel.
The astronomical new moon precedes the molad this month
by approximately five hours, and is on Wednesday morning, 29 Kislev
(Dec. 8) at 12:32 A.M., the morning of Monday, 29 Cheshvan, 5759 (Nov.
8), in Eretz Yisroel. Since during the three days after the molad
the moon passes its apogee (its highest point) and advances very slowly
not only the entire influence of the astronomical new moon's early
appearance is canceled but it even slightly follows later than its
calculated position according to the molad. This information
is significant for those who act according to the Chazon Ish and do
not make a berochoh on the moon until it is big and high in
the sky. Of course, on Motzei Shabbos in western USA and Canada
the moon will be much larger and higher in the sky than in the extreme
eastern countries. In Eretz Yisroel even where people daven
Maariv three quarters of an hour after sunset and say Vayiten
lecho the moon will still be a little low at that time. However,
it must be decided whether one is permitted to annul the ma'aloh
of saying Kiddush Levonoh on Motzei Shabbos especially
during the clouded winter nights.
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