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Our Answer to Antisemitism is Torah

On Succos, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, 77, who will retire at the end of October after 22 years in office, made a speech to a summit meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, the world's largest Muslim grouping. Among other remarks, he said, "The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."

A Middos Workshop: Bitochon
Based on Shiurim of Rav Dovid Siegel

Part II

Bitochon vs. Hishtadlus

"By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread." Before Odom Horishon's sin, he had no need to do any work. The trees provided fruits, and the mal'ochim served him meat. If not for Odom Horishon's fateful curse, a person could sit and do nothing and be fully sustained.

Introspection
by Dr. Rabbi Yisroel Nulman

Throughout his lifetime man is occupied with thoughts, calculations, assessments, contemplations and private remonstrations.

Politica
"Prime Minister" Tommy Lapid

by E. Rauchberger

If any doubt still lingers as to who is the real Prime Minister--or at least who is really pulling the strings in the State of Israel--recently the matter became clear as a bell: Tommy Lapid. Meanwhile Shinui has turned into the strongest and most influential party despite the Likud's 40 MKs compared to Shinui's 15.

American Jews Upset at a Mainstream American Christian Group
by Rabbi A. Shafran

The Presbyterian Church (USA) took the unprecedented step of launching a new congregation -- for Jews.

The house of worship, in a suburb of Philadelphia, mixes Torah readings and Jewish symbols with what one might delicately call Christian content.


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