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After four years in which the level of poverty remained
steady, the number of poor people rose to 1.32 million, or
18.1 percent of the population. The number of poor families
in Israel last year grew by more than five percent to 18.5
percent of all the families in the country. The total number
of poor families is now 340,000.
United Torah Jewry strongly objected early this week to the
Knesset Finance Minister's withdrawal of a request for the
transfer of NIS 32 million ($7 million) in funding for the
yeshivas.
Following pressure and inducements aimed at the Torah-based
education system lately as part of government attempts to
interfere with study arrangements and the shaping of
education and instruction in talmudei Torah, gedolei
Yisroel, including HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv,
shlita, are calling on rabbonim and public figures to
stand firm and wage a battle to safeguard the purity of Torah-
based education.
Six hundred people gathered at a Jewish cemetery in
Herlscheim, located in the area formerly known as Alsace, to
protest the vandalizing of the cemetery last week as well as
the increasing incidence of antisemitism in France. The
gatherers recited Kaddish and lit 127 candles, matching the
number of graves that were desecrated.
Jews are unsure where they belong. Should they stay in
France? Leave? Most of them do not have the liberty to
choose. Jews barely making ends meet are stuck in the
suburbs. Leumi Bank to be Given to Israeli Voters Finance Minister Netanyahu announced an innovative plan to
privatize Bank Leumi after 21 years of efforts proved
unsuccessful. Netanyahu said this plan is part of a three-
pronged strategy to fix the three worst problems in the
Israeli economy: the banks, the ports and the ownership of
land.
IDF Incursion into Gaza -- Palestinians Bomb a Military
Vehicle Israeli forces backed by armored and engineering units
entered the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza late Monday night
searching for metal workshops that produce Kassam rockets.
Heavy exchanges of gunfire erupted between soldiers and armed
Palestinians. Soldiers took up positions on the rooftops of
houses as others swept the area for suspects. Basel's Chareidi Community Celebrates 75 Years The chareidi kehilloh in Basel celebrated 75 years
since its founding and the construction of its beis
knesses, reports Die Judische Zeitung. Poland Seeks to Extradite Israeli Suspected of Mistreating
German Prisoners
Poland has asked Israel to extradite Solomon Morall from
Israel, who is suspected by them of committing war crimes
when he commanded a forced-labor camp where Germans were
imprisoned in Poland after World War II. Arguing with Chareidi Educational Success
For an educational system, one important measure of success
is if its graduates become functional, productive members of
society. By this measure, the chareidi educational system has
been very successful, as the overwhelming majority of the
graduates find themselves fully prepared for life.
Live and Enjoy
Some people claim that every pleasure comes with a price tag.
Nothing is handed out for free. No money... no free
lunches... From Starobin to Brisk: The Life of the Gaon HaRav Michel
Feinstein, zt'l, His First Yahrtzeit, 16th Iyar 5764 Falling for the Investment Opportunity of a
Lifetime
According to the Ramo (494:3) we do not say tachanun
from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after Isru Chag (there
are other minhogim that do not say tachanun
until after the seven days of hashlomoh that follow
Shavuos).
On Rosh Chodesh Sivan we do not say tachanun as with
every Rosh Chodesh. The second of Sivan is called Yom
HaMeyuchas, since after yetzias Mitzrayim, Hashem
commanded Moshe to say to bnei Yisroel: "Now therefore
if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then
you shall be My own treasure from among all peoples"
(Shemos 19:5) to prepare them for Torah. Afterwards
the third, forth, and fifth of Sivan are the Sheloshes
Yemei Hagboloh when bnei Yisroel waited for
kabolas HaTorah (Mishnah Berurah 494:8, and see
Shabbos 86-88).
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