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A senior al-Qaida terrorist who is believed responsible for
past attacks against Israeli and American targets in Kenya
and Tanzania is reported to have gone recently to east
Africa. Israeli security sources, quoted by Ze'ev Schiff
writing in Ha'aretz, say that he is plotting an attack
against an Israeli or an American target. He is already on
the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists, based on his
previous activities. Upon the instructions of the gedolei Torah, Yated
Ne'eman is publishing some of the letters that were
issued in past years by the Torah leaders zt'l and
ylct'a, opposing yeshiva-high-school-type institutions
and related initiatives to provide our youth with secular
studies.
After concerted efforts including two special delegates who
traveled from Israel to Iraq where they covered hundreds of
kilometers, the Jewish Agency succeeded in persuading six
elderly Jews, most of them geriatric patients, to make aliyah
on a specially chartered plane. The aliyah operation, which
included extensive media coverage, involved chilul
Shabbos.
HaRav Yitzchok Silber, founder of Toldos Yeshurun, a
nationwide Jewish studies program for Russian speakers, and
Zoeir Gilelov, president of the World Congress for Caucasus
Jewry, have initiated a program to train avreichim and
bnei yeshivos from the Caucasus to lead communities in
Israel and abroad. Claims Conference Decision Welcomed By Agudath Israel --
Calls for Inclusion of Jewish Communal Institutions The decision of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany -- more commonly known as the "Claims
Conference" -- to reaffirm its restitution funds allocations
policy was hailed by Agudath Israel World Organization. In Defense of Jewish Babies One way, it seems, to garner criticism from American Jewish
newspapers and religious leaders is to try to assist poor
families in Israel -- at least if they include chareidim. Mobilize to Resist Anti-Schechita Attempts in US Orthodox Jewish groups are concerned about attempts to tamper
with shechita in the US. Although shechita is
protected by a special exemption in the US Code, some
Orthodox Jewish leaders point to a number of recent
developments of concern. HaRav Yitzchok Kulitz, zt'l
HaRav Yitzchok Kulitz zt'l, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
for over two decades, passed away last week at the age of 81
following a protracted illness. HaRav Shmuel Dovid Halevi Movshovitz, zt'l
Last Wednesday HaRav Shmuel Dovid Halevi Movshovitz,
zt'l, succumbed to a difficult illness he bore without
ceasing his labors in Torah study. What is the Tikkun for Baseless Hatred? Not Ahavas Chinom!
We are speaking about the tikkun of the problems that
led to Tisha B'Av and, as Tisha B'Av is far from pleasant, we
might expect that its tikkun is also difficult and
unpleasant.
Misgivings and Mistakes
One bright morning --
Miss Take met Miss Giving at the local grocery store where
both of them went to buy their daily supply of bread and
milk. Kelm -- The Silent Furnace Shinui Shuts out Chareidim in Haifa -- and Has Big Plans
for the Whole Country
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