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A heavy blow fell on all of Klal Yisroel, particularly
European Jewry, on Sunday upon the histalkus of HaRav
Betzalel Rakow zt'l, the Rov of Gateshead, England,
who was niftar after an illness at the age of 76. Hamas is utilizing the hudna cease-fire to build over 1000
Kassam rockets, a senior IDF officer told reporters on
Monday. As a result, some analysts say, the next phase in the
conflict may be very intense.
Attorney General Eliakim Rubinstein told Rabbinical Courts
Director-General Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan that Rabbi Yosef Avior
and Rabbi Tzefania Drori should be allowed to continue as
dayanim in the Special Conversion Courts until they
reach the regular retirement age of dayanim of 70, and
should not be forced to leave at age 65, the the mandatory
age of retirement from government service.
Eight thousand enlisted soldiers are not Jewish, the head of
IDF education, Brigadier General Eliezer Stern, told the
Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee last week. Technology Makes Kosher Slaughter Even More Humane The humane slaughter of agricultural animals has been
improved in recent years due to consumer demands on fast-food
chains and supermarkets, said Joe Regenstein, Cornell
University professor of food science, as quoted in the weekly
US-based newsletter Kosher Today. American Agudah Effort to Aid Jewish Families Raises
Ruckus An effort to help soften the blow of recent budget cuts in
Israel that will disproportionately affect families with
children has come under attack by two major American Jewish
newspapers and some Jewish communal figures. Bais Yaakov Schools Reach Agreement Following several weeks of concerted efforts the Vaadas
HaRabbonim LeInyonei HaSeminarim and their delegates reversed
the government decree to close many seminaries and to impose
quotas intended to restrict the number of teachers-in-
training in the chareidi sector. MK Gafni: Chareidim Abused More Than Anyone Else
"No other sector in the State of Israel in any government
ministry is subject to as much abuse as the chareidi sector
and Torah institutions. On every issue and every month there
is some new decree," MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni remonstrated during
a Knesset plenum following a question presented by Deputy
Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Yitzhak Levy (Mafdal)
regarding the frequent delays in transferring budget
allocations to Torah institutions. Ministry of Education Cancels General Cuts While Leaving
Yeshiva Cuts Intact
The Education Ministry canceled the latest cut planned for
government schools but left the 25 percent cuts in the
yeshiva budget intact, according to figures presented in an
emergency meeting held by the Union of Yeshiva Managers.
This was the time when our forefathers who lived during the
great Churban felt their world collapsing. On 17 Tammuz the
walls of the city were breached. After years of strife, both
internal and external, the final defenses were crumbling. For
many who were slaughtered in the terrible final destruction,
their own end was drawing near.
Urei Betuv Yerusholayim
What better time to look favorably upon our fellow man, our
fellow Jerusalemite...
Two true stories The Kasztner Trial Hand in Hand
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