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The offices of the State Archive are generally quiet: a lot
of red tape and very little action. That's the way it was --
until last February 29 when suddenly, with a big bang, the
office came alive. Telephones began to ring and the web site
was flooded with requests from all over the world. Australian Court Supports Orthodox School for not Accepting
Reform Convert Some stories never go away, even after the referee has given
his decision. Such a case is that of Carmel School in Perth,
Western Australia and the Goldberg family where the mother is
a Reform Convert who sought to have the Orthodox school
accept her son for enrollment. This past Monday (29 Adar I), Likud placed a proposal of no-
confidence in the prime minister on the Knesset table due to
the decision of Education Minister Yossi Sarid to incorporate
the poems of the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish into the
curriculum of the state schools, at the same time dropping
traditional Jewish sources expressing their love for and
commitment to Eretz Yisroel.
Dollar Continues to Fall: 4.001 on Monday For the first time this secular year, the dollar flirted with
the 4.00 barrier as it fell 0.55 percent against the shekel
on Monday and the representative rate was fixed at NIS 4.001,
the lowest level since more than a year ago in October 1998
during the financial turmoil in the last quarter of that
year. U.S. Aguda to High Court: Morality
Has Legal Meaning The vital role of traditional moral values in American
society is a theme shared by two legal briefs just submitted
by Agudas Yisroel of America to the United States Supreme
Court.
Despite government programs to try to equalize things,
American social observers worry that there may be what they
call a "digital divide." This refers to a supposed gap that
separates those who have Internet access from those who do
not. Don't Fence Me In - Some Tips on
Purim Costumes Take it from me and save yourselves and your children a lot
of discomfort.
Don't dress your child up as an ice cream cone (ask my
younger sister, Chani).
Don't dress your child up as a computer (ask my sister,
Sorele). The Life and Achievements of HaRav Yechiel Schlesinger zt'l, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Kol Torah,
Yerushalayim -- 9th Adar 5760, His Fifty-First Yahrtzeit |
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