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17 Cheshvan 5761 - November 15, 2000 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Chayei Soroh, 5761

Sunday, 21 Cheshvan - Shabbos, 27 Cheshvan
(Nov. 19-25, 2000)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Nozir, 33-39
Yerushalmi:
Bova Metzia, 35 - Bova Basra, 4

MISHNA YOMIS
Yevomos, 3:7-4:10

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 334:15-336:3

Molad: Sunday, 2:05 P.M.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Vayeiro
Yerushalayim:
4:03 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:17 P.M.

London:
3:52 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:17 P.M.
Melbourne:
7:52 P.M.

Parshas Chaiyei Soroh
Yerushalayim:
4:01 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:15 P.M.

London:
3:44 P.M.
Johannesburg:
6:15 P.M.
Melbourne:
7:59 P.M.

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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

NEWS


Israeli Economy Still Looks Strong
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The picture for the first 10 months of the year is still good, despite more than a month and a half of Palestinian attacks. High-tech, which accounts for 57 percent of industrial exports, went up 35 percent in dollar terms compared to last year. Electronics did even better, with a 300 percent rise in exports, while computers and office machines gained 39 percent.


WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY RUN-IN WITH ARAB HATRED
by Tuvia Grossman

One of the most riveting -- and controversial -- photographs to have emerged from the recent weeks of violence in Israel was that of a bloodied and dazed young man with an angry Israeli policeman standing behind him shouting. While the young man was first identified by the Associated Press, the photo's source, as a Palestinian, it soon became clear that he was an American studying in an Israeli yeshiva -- a victim of Palestinians, who had dragged him from a car, beaten and stabbed him.

High Court convicts Korman of killing Palestinian Boy
by M. Plaut

On Sunday the Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision of about a year ago and convicted Nachum Korman of manslaughter in the death of 11-year-old Palestinian boy Hilmi Shousha in 1996. At the time the incident was publicized as a case of Jewish brutality towards Arab children.


Shachar Beit Shemesh Neighborhood To Be Exclusively Chareidi
by Betzalel Kahn

Following unsuccessful attempts to sell the Shachar neighborhood in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel (Ramat Hanevi'im) to the secular sector, Housing and Construction Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer decided last week to allocate the entire neighborhood exclusively to the chareidi population.

Egged Works with the Residents of Modi'in Illit
by A. Cohen

Egged has announced that it will upgrade its public transportation system in Modi'in Illit, on inter city as well as intra city lines. At a meeting of Egged with the local council head, Rabbi Yaakov Gutterman last week in Modi'in Illit. The plan is to take effect shortly. Modi'in Illit includes Kiryat Sefer and the Brachfeld areas.

Prayer Rally in Jerusalem
by Betzalel Kahn

In light of the difficult situation in Eretz Yisroel, a prayer rally was to beheld on Monday, 15 Cheshvan, Taanis Sheini Basra. It was scheduled to take place in Yeshu'as Yaakov, Mea Shearim's central shul.

Otzar Beis Din of Shearis Yisroel Set Up
by B. Rabinowitz

HaRav Tzvi Weber, HaRav Tzvi Friedman and HaRav Eliezer Halevi Dunner of the BaDaTz of Shearis Yisroel met recently to deal with all issues of the shmitta year. In conjunction with this, an Otzar Beis Din for shmitta was set up on 4 Tishrei


Machon Taharas Yisroel Dedicated
by A. Cohen

A mezuza was affixed to the new Machon Taharas Yisroel at a large gathering marking the seventh year of the Mishkan Shmuel beis medrash. The beis medrash, which is headed by HaRav M. S. Klein, is located in Bnei Brak's Or HaChaim neighborhood.


OPINION & COMMENT

Stopping Terror with Preparedness

Yasser Arafat has signed two major agreements, "countersigned" and "guaranteed" by the President of the United States, in which the main thing that he promised in return for legitimacy and control of millions of people was to renounce violence.


HOME & FAMILY


The Bris
by Sudy Rosengarten

Outside, with sun shining brightly and birds singing gloriously as they hopped from branch to branch of green- leafed trees, Rivka was able to forget that it was winter. But inside her Bnei Brak apartment, it was a different story. There, despite the kerosene heater that burnt all the time and the layers of sweaters that she always wore, she never stopped shivering.


IN-DEPTH FEATURES

Nachalat Shiva: Pioneering Yishuv Eretz Yisroel
by Z. Goldberg


Additional Luach Information

The earliest time of Kiddush Levonoh -- Kislev

The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world begins on Wednesday, 2:25 P.M., 2 Kislev (Nov. 29) in Eretz Yisroel. The actual time in most of the world is therefore from the beginning of Wednesday night, the eve of 3 Kislev. In the eastern countries one can make Kiddush Levonoh on the eve of 3 Kislev only according to the difference in time zones in comparison to Eretz Yisroel. However, in the extreme eastern countries it is impossible to make a berochoh on Kiddush Levonoh at all that night because the moon sets before the earliest time, and their actual time is from the beginning of the next night, Thursday night, the eve of 4 Kislev (Nov. 30).

The astronomical new moon precedes the molad this month by approximately thirteen hours and thirteen minutes, but since during the three days after the molad the moon approaches its apogee (its highest point) and advances slowly part of the influence of the astronomical new moon's early appearance is canceled. 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.

(Birur Halocho, V, Orach Chaim 426 and 601)


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