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The agreement reached at the end of March between the Ceska
Pojistovna (CP) insurance company, the national Czech
government as represented by the Culture Ministry and the
Archaeology Institute, and the Prague Jewish community (known
as PZO) to preserve an ancient cemetery discovered in the
middle of Prague seems to have broken down completely as the
Culture Ministry has insulted the worldwide Jewish community
and the CP company has decided to proceed unilaterally. Reform Jews In South Africa Withering Away Recent demographic surveys of South African Jewry show the
non-Orthodox grouping -- particularly in Johannesburg where
two-thirds of the entire Jewish community lives -- to be
aging and steadily diminishing in numbers. "They Fired Me Because I Refused to Join
Scientology" Shocking testimony about a Zoglobeck factory worker who was
fired for not submitting to demands of the company director
to participate in Scientology cult seminars was heard on 9
Tammuz at a special meeting of the Knesset Labor and Welfare
Committee. A solution has yet to be found for the problem of the
hundreds of crates of human bones discovered in the basement
of the Jerusalem Hadassah Ein Karem School of Dentistry.
Or Etzion Conversion Court Defies the Gedolim to Appease
the Reform The special conversion court in Or Etzion, headed by Rabbis
Chaim Druckman, and Yosef Avior, recently conducted
"conversion" ceremonies for the graduates of the State-
sponsored Conversion Ulpan network, which is run jointly with
Reform and Conservative leaders. Professor Edward Said: The Closet Terrorist The AFP News Agency published a photo depicting Professor
Edward Said, a prominent professor at Columbia University in
New York City and a former president of the U.S. Modern
Language Association, throwing stones from Lebanon at IDF
soldiers stationed at the Fatma Crossing in Metulla. Scaled-down Religious Liberty Bill Before Congress "This is an imperfect world, and Washington often stands out
in the area of imperfection. . . . Half a loaf is better than
none." That is how Abba Cohen, Agudath Israel of America's
Washington Office director and counsel, explained the
thinking behind a new religious liberty bill introduced last
week in both the United States House of Representatives and
Senate.
Shatnez Alert Scores of this season's linen and linen-look garments have
been found to contain shatnez. The mixture of linen
and wool has been found even in garments with labels
attesting that the garment is 100% linen.
There is plenty of cause for concern. The super-confident Israeli prime minister is locked up together with the Palestinian fox and the American lame duck at the American Presidential retreat at Camp David in which the prime minister and the lame duck are desperate for some results but the fox already has all the cards -- or at least pretends that he does. Attention Deficit Disorder There have always been children who are difficult at home and in the classroom. They are not brain-damaged in any way, nevertheless they are children with a learning disability, children who have difficult in learning the normal way. Yahrtzeit: 21 Tammuz, 5701 |
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