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A severe publicity campaign was waged against the chareidi community on Monday 13 Kislev by both the Right and the Left in the wake of the demonstration held last Sunday in Beit Shemesh to protest of the opening of pork stores throughout the city. Hope for the 13 Arrested Iranian Jews
The head of Teheran's Revolutionary Court has suggested a possible compromise in the case of 13 Jews charged with espionage, saying that Iran must consider its national interests. State Comptroller may Launch Raviv Probe After "Bombshell" In Committee Meeting State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg may conduct a probe into the government's operation of General Security Service agent Avishai Raviv, after coming under pressure yesterday from the members of the Knesset State Audit Committee. Shuvu Students Questioned by Police in Nahariya for "Truancy" The unthinkable has happened -- Israeli police officials have begun calling in parents of Shuvu students for interrogation at police headquarters. Chareidi representatives on the Tal Committee to determine a policy for draft deferral for yeshiva students walked out last week in protest just before a number of soldiers of the Nachal Hachareidi were about to enter the room. Trying to Solve the Immigration Time Bomb
According to the official statistics of the Interior Ministry, more than half of the immigrants who arrived from the former Soviet Union (now the C.I.S.) in the past year are not Jewish. This refers to people whom no one considers Jewish. Building Up Your Child We are beginning a series on child esteem, among other topics. Mrs. Wolf welcomes any specific questions on child rearing, and has taken some of the reader response from past articles (R' Zobin and others) to discuss.
The How and Why of Kiruv
Chanukah starts on Shabbos, 25 Kislev (Dec. 4) and ends on Shabbos, 2 Teves (Dec.11). We must be on the alert in regards to fire safety and not light the neiros near inflammables. Small children should not be left alone near the neiros.
Chanukah lighting time according to the Chazon Ish
The Chazon Ish zt'l lit the Chanukah lights on weekdays twenty minutes after sunset. On Motzei Shabbos, however, he lit them only after ma'ariv (which he davened approximately three quarters of an hour after sunset) and making havdoloh. [The report in Tohoras Habayis (part 2, p. 273) that the Chazon Ish lit Chanukah lights twenty minutes after sunset even on Motzei Shabbos--from which the author deduces that melochos may be done this soon after sunset when there is a pressing necessity--is erroneous].
The source of the minhag of the Chazon Ish of when to light Chanukah lights on weekdays is found in the Biur HaGra in Yoreh De'ah, hilchos Mila chap. 266:17, who explicitly mentions Chanukah lights!
The Chazon Ish based his reasoning on the fact that there must be some darkness for Chanukah lighting, since "what good is a candle during the day?" In central Eretz Yisroel we light 20-21 minutes after sunset (depending when Chanukah falls according to the solar calendar). The sun is at that time 4.8 degrees below the horizon.
Using the sun's position below the horizon as our criterion, these are the times to light Chanukah lights in selected cities worldwide according to the Chazon Ish: Zurich 27-28 minutes after sunset; Vienna 28-29 minutes; Sydney 22 minutes; Strasbourg 28 minutes; Stockholm 43-44 minutes; Rome 24-25 minutes; Paris 28-29 minutes; New York 23-24 minutes; Gateshead 35 minutes; Melbourne 23-24 minutes; Manchester 33 minutes; Los Angeles 21-22 minutes; London 31 minutes; Johannesburg 20 minutes; Cleveland 24 minutes; Chicago 24-25 minutes; Buenos Aires 22-23 minutes; Amsterdam 32 minutes.
See Birur Halocho Teliso'oh, Orach Chaim 772.
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