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NEWS
Economists Welcome Netanyahu's Recovery Plan; Public
Concerned Economists welcomed Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's economic recovery plan, citing the positive nature of the Treasury's proposals to reduce public sector spending and cut government allowances. The question is whether political realities will force it to be significantly changed. Jewish Skeletons Discovered Beneath Swiss
University
Swiss archaeologists uncovered and gathered the skeletal remains of approximately 40 Jewish bodies that had been buried in an ancient cemetery in Basel, and then failed to inform the local Jewish community for a period of two months. Now Jewish officials are working to have the bones properly reburied and to prevent further dishonor to the dead, says R' Dovid Rosenberg, an attorney based in Zurich who serves as the Swiss representative to the Committee for the Preservation of European Cemeteries. Jubilee For Yeshiva College of South Africa
A Johannesburg school that took the lead in pioneering Torah education in South Africa, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. Yeshiva College, which began its existence as a yeshiva ketanoh offering part-time shiurim to a handful of interested teenagers, is now the largest religious day school system in the country, with over 800 pupils from junior school to graduation. Vigilance in America As the United States wages war on Iraq, there is a state of heightened security in New York and other big cities in the US. Degel Hatorah Preparing for Municipal Elections in
Jerusalem
The Jerusalem branch of Degel Hatorah has begun preparations for the municipal elections scheduled to take place at the beginning of Sivan. HaRav Yaakov Chaim Jofen zt'l HaRav Yaakov Chaim Jofen, rosh yeshivas Beis Yosef and the son of HaRav Avrohom Jofen, the son-in-law of the Alter of Novhardok, zecher tzadikim livrochoh, passed away in New York on Sunday at the age of 86. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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