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NEWS
IDF Enters Gaza as Qassams Murder 4 Year Old
Security Escort for Visitors at Mount of Olives
by G. Lazer Justice Minister Yosef Lapid and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom exchanged heated remarks during a government meeting on Sunday to discuss a report called The Jewish People 2004. How Many Hours are Required at Kollelim? by Eliezer Rauchberger MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni tabled an amendment to the law allowing yeshiva students to defer military service, to allow kollel students to learn 35 hours per week in their main kollel and another 10 hours in a different framework, instead of 45 hours per week in a single kollel as required by the current law. NRP Thwarts Bill for Religious Council WorkersBy Eliezer Rauchberger NRP votes helped defeat legislation proposed by MK Amir Peretz (Am Echad) to apply the Civil Service Law to religious council retirees, thereby requiring the State rather than the religious councils to pay their pensions. City of Bnei Brak Cancels Dismissal Notices and Continues With Recovery Programby A. Cohen Labor relations at the City of Bnei Brak are looking up. After months of tension that began with the recovery program and reached a climax two months ago when the City Council unanimously decided to send dismissal notices to 403 employees, there has been marked improvement following an agreement between the municipality and the Organization of Municipality Clerks' and Workers' Committees in which the two sides pledged to make an effort to achieve a comprehensive recovery program. MK Ravitz Proposes Changes in Adoption LawsBy Eliezer Rauchberger "A lack of faith has been created between families in very dire situations and [State] welfare services to the point that there are families who should receive temporary assistance and some sort of help and they do not turn to the social bureaus out of fear and dread their children may be taken away for adoption. Pair of Fraudulent Tzedokoh Collectors Uncoveredby Betzalel Kahn Two hucksters who succeeded in collecting large sums of money from hundreds of families by claiming they were backed by prominent rabbonim were caught in Jerusalem last week. Mrs. Chanah Perlstein, o"hby Betzalel Kahn Mrs. Chanah Perlstein o"h, a tzadeikes and the wife of HaRav Yaakov Perlstein ylct"a, passed away in London on Sunday 8 Tammuz at the age of 80. Kaliv Building Dedicatedby Betzalel Kahn Thousands were on hand to take part in the dedication of the Shema Yisroel-Kaliv Center and the installation of three sifrei Torah in remembrance of Holocaust martyrs and sifrei Torah that were desecrated and burned. The large ceremony was held on 27 Sivan in Yerushalayim to mark 60 years since the Admor of Kaliv was spared from the Nazis. Satisfied Riders on Egged's Mehadrin Lines in JerusalemBy Betzalel Kahn Egged has been operating several Mehadrin bus lines in
chareidi neighborhoods in Jerusalem for the past six months
following requests by rabbonim and askonim.
by Betzalel Kahn Following extensive efforts to locate a site, enormous quantities of genizah were buried at a new, specially prepared site in the Abu Dis area near Maaleh Adumim through City of Jerusalem funding. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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