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5 Iyar 5762 - April 17, 2002 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Emor, 5762

Sunday,9 Iyar - Shabbos, 15 Iyar
(Apr. 21-27, 2002)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Bova Basra, 32-38
Yerushalmi:
Ma'aser Sheini, 2-8

MISHNA YOMIS
Ediyos, 4:10-7:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 629:18-631:6

Ovos:4

Ta'anis Sheini Kamma falls on Monday, 10 Iyar (April 22) and Ta'anis Chamishi falls on Thursday, 13 Iyar (April 26).

Pesach Sheini falls on Friday, 14 Iyar (Apr. 26). Tachanun is not said and the minhag is to eat matzos during this day. The Chida writes that we should increase our simchah on Pesach Sheini since it is kodosh to Hashem.

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Acharei-Kedoshim
Yerushalayim:
6:35 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:50 P.M.

London:
7:48 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:31P.M.
Melbourne:
5:30 P.M.

Parshas Emor
Yerushalayim:
6:40 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
6:55 P.M.

London:
8:00 P.M.
Johannesburg:
5:25P.M.
Melbourne:
5:20 P.M.

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OPINION & COMMENT

The Secular Zionist Crisis

In addition to the difficulties that we all suffer and grieve -- the deaths, murders and worldwide antisemitic attacks -- the remaining secular Zionists are going through an ideological crisis. Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a former minister of justice, current MK (Meretz) and university professor, recently wrote: "A hundred years after opening the Zionist gate, secular -- not religious -- Jewish nationalism is suffering a great crisis. The sheer power of the Moslem- Arab hatred for Israel and its Jews forces despair into our hearts.


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A Kosher Yid
by Chava Dumas

Nowadays, if we want to buy a kosher chicken, we just go into the supermarket or butcher shop and pick one out, either packaged or fresh, with an assortment of supervisions from which to choose. We so rely on others to provide us with certain staples that I wonder how many children today actually understand what consitutes the kashrus we all take for granted.


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