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Two weeks ago, UTJ MK Rabbi Halpert said that the massive
immigration of non-Jews from the C.I.S. is a social and even
a security problem. His remarks touched off a political
storm. UTJ MKs Demand Investigation of Universities' Double
Budgets
At a meeting last week dealing with the budgets of Israel's
institutions of higher learning, the Knesset Finance
Committee raised a demand for an immediate investigation of
double budgets granted by government ministries -- mainly the
Ministry of Education -- to institutions of higher learning
such as universities. Significant Rise in the Mortality Rate From Complications
of Flu The head of the Public Health Services Department in the
Israel Health Ministry, Dr. Alex Leventhal, recently said:
"The mortality rate due to pneumonia is currently higher than
the average rate of the past ten years. Prohibited Joint Conversion
Seminaries to Expand The Ministerial Committee for Conversions headed by Minister
Michael Melchior and the Knesset Committee for Aliya and
Absorption both met last week (separately) to discuss plans
for conversions in the upcoming year. Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, who has served as
honorary chairman of Shuvu since 1990, sent a letter last
week to Education Minister Yossi Sarid demanding that he
revoke the planned closures of two Shuvu schools in Nahariya
and Nazareth.
Rebbetzin Zisa Chazan, o"h This past Monday (4 Teves) a large throng, among them
thousands of students of the Beis Yaakov Seminary,
accompanied the renowned mechaneches, Rebbetzin Zisa
Chazan, on her last earthly journey. She was the wife of
HaRav Yehoshua Chazan, yibodel lechayim arukim, and
was 54 years old at the time of her petirah. The Need to Set Up a Jewish
Identity Database
Recently, as the calls to allow free entry of non-Jews to the
State of Israel have become more common and have come from
higher and higher levels, we see how self-destructive is the
liberal and permissive ideology that underlies these
feelings. Tova's Dream On October 15th, 1946, a slim young girl stepped onto a London train heading for Dover. Her dream had come true; she was on her way to Germany to work in a D.P. camp...
Non-Jewish Mass Immigration: A Time Bomb in Israeli Society False Identity
According to the Chazon Ish the end of Tzom Asoroh BeTeves in Eretz Yisroel is approximately three and two thirds minutes later than the above times. In London the final time is five and a quarter minutes later than the above time and is approximately forty-nine minutes after sunset.
(Birur Halocho Tanina, Orach Chaim 562, and Yoreh De'ah 262).
The last day for Kiddush Levonoh -- Teves
One may say Kiddush Levonoh in the entire world until Wednesday night, the eve of 14 Teves (Dec. 22), at 11:42 P.M., Israeli time. The final time in most of Europe is 10:42 P.M., and in eastern America 6:42 P.M. In most of America including the southeast it is impossible at all to make a berochoh this night and the actual final time for people living there is the previous night. In the extreme eastern countries one may make Kiddush Levonoh the entire Wednesday night.
The astronomical full moon is at 7:31 A.M., more than four hours before the nigud emtzo'i and approximately ten hours before the end of fifteen full days from the molad. |
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