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The IDF's General Staff has reached the conclusion that
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's stature is
dropping so quickly that there is no need for Israel to push
him out. They expect that a new leadership will soon form. South African Jews are bracing themselves for a possible
repeat of what transpired at last year's Durban anti-racism
conference when the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD) takes place in Johannesburg in August this year. The phone rings at Shuvu's headquarters in Yerushalayim and
Larissa Litvin lifts the receiver.
"Shuvu, shalom," she begins.
Mrs. Litvin hears the Russian greeting on the other end of
the line.
Safety in Crosswalks The National Traffic Safety Authority, the Ministry of
Education and Israel Police's Traffic Division are launching
a summer safety campaign on the proper use of crosswalks. The
campaign, scheduled to run from June 30th to September 15th,
has adopted as its slogan, "Pasim Lev." HaRav Nachman Bulman zt"l This past motzei Shabbos, parshas Matos-Mas'ei, at
1:00 A.M., thousands of pained and bereaved mourners from all
over Eretz Yisroel accompanied the seventy-seven year old
HaRav Nachman Bulman on his last earthly journey. Though he
had been ill for some time, his petiroh on Shabbos
kodesh was sudden and unexpected. Rav Elchonon Tzvi (Charles) Wengrove zt"l
Last Friday, erev Shabbos parshas Matos-Mas'ei, Rav
Elchonon Tzvi (Charles) Wengrove zt"l was niftar. He
was buried on Har Hamenuchos before Shabbos. Mourning on Tisha B'Av is the Only Solution
This is another year we have to mourn the destruction. With
all the truly wonderful things that we have experienced in
recent generations, with the vast increase in wealth and the
tremendous growth of Torah, still the overall situation of
Jews throughout the world is bleak enough today that there
certainly is no one who questions the need to mourn -- as
some did in the early exuberance after the founding of the
State of Israel more than 50 years ago.
Kristallnacht
A personal memoir of Zippora Hess, born in Berlin, escaped
Nazi Germany at eighteen to Washington Heights, Rochester and
Boston before making aliya in 1984. We revisit Kristallnacht
through the eyes of this granddaughter of the longtime
shammos of the Breuer shul in Frankfurt. IN-DEPTH FEATURES The Jews of Libya All Rights Reserved
END OF FAST - TISHAH B'AV
Yerushalayim: 8:15 P.M.
Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak and nearby area: 8:17 P.M.
Haifa: 8:18 P.M.
Beer Sheva: 8:15 P.M.
Elad: 8:17 P.M.
Beit Shemesh: 8:16 P.M.
Kiryat Sefer: 8:16 P.M.
New York: 8:59 P.M.
London: 9:57 P.M.
Gateshead: 10:29 P.M.
According to the Chazon Ish, the end of Tishah B'Av in
most of Eretz Yisroel is approximately two- thirds of an hour
after sunset (sheki'as hamishur and not on the
mountain), but in Yerushalayim the end of the fast is
earlier.
(Birur Halocho Tinyana, Orach Chaim 562, and Yoreh
Dei'ah 262)
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