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The Interior Ministry must register local residents who
convert to Judaism in non-halachically valid procedures, such
as those performed by Reform and Conservative clergy, here or
abroad, as Jews, a panel of 11 High Court justices ruled last
week. Until now, the courts had only forced the Ministry to
accept the validity of Reform or Conservative procedures
performed abroad. 129 Government Bodies Overpay Their Workers The eighth annual report of the Finance Ministry Wage
Director about salaries paid in 2000 found that 129 of a
total of 676 organizations funded and supported by the
Israeli government overpaid their senior employees. A new peace plan to resolve the conflict in Eretz Yisroel
proposed recently by Saudi Arabia has received considerable
response from a number of different directions. Now Israeli
prime minister Ariel Sharon has expressed a willingness to
discuss the proposal with the Saudis. Despite steady losses in the community to emigration,
religious Jewish day schools in Johannesburg continue to
expand, both numerically and in terms of their facilities.
About Children Collecting Photographs of Gedolim The following was published on the front page of Yated
Ne'eman in Hebrew last week.
We regard it as a spiritual necessity for us to publicly
express our opposition to the various types of photograph
albums that have been distributed in the past and are
currently being distributed.
In July 1985, Enron was formed from the merger of Houston
Natural Gas and InterNorth of Omaha, Nebraska, two gas
pipeline companies that made a boring but steady income from
transporting natural gas from the wells to the consumers. Observations: Big Drought on East Coast by Yated Ne'eman Staff A record-setting drought has settled over the New York region
and much of the East Coast. The Eastern Seaboard of the US is
having a dry fall and winter, the latest dry seasons in a dry
spell that began in 1998. The problem is almost everywhere,
from Georgia in the south to Maine in the north.
Why Me?
Five weeks ago an immediate relative of mine became
critically ill. I was devastated, pained and bewildered. A
deep sense of despondency overtook me. "Why me? Why doesn't
Hashem send this nisoyon to someone else?" It seemed
overwhelming in every sense of the word -- technically,
financially and emotionally. Almost like slaying a dragon. IN-DEPTH FEATURES Under and Above the Law in Israel Master Of The Talmud: The Antwerpen Rov, HaRav Chaim
Kreiswirth, zt'l
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