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OPINION & COMMENT

Just Put Out the Fires

Former director of the CIA James Woolsey says that the war against Islamic fundamentalists will drag on for decades. In a speech that he has given around the world in various places since the Moslem attacks on New York City and Washington DC on September 11, Woolsey argues that the world is now engaged in World War IV (World War III was the Cold War), and he expects it to drag on for many years.

The Old-New Campaign
by Rabbi N. Z. Grossman

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A New Round in an Old Game

Vocational training for avreichim is once again under discussion. Certain parties are again seeking to push their plans forward, this time by exploiting the economic squeeze that the government has engineered, which is intended to foster an atmosphere of hardship and distress among Torah true families.

School Testing: Ways and Means of Implementation
by Rav Moshe Karp

It is customary in various chadorim for the menahel to test grades four through eight in gemora, alternately. I would like to offer to the general public some of my observations, and conclusions drawn from personal experience.

One Language -- Loshon Kodesh
by A. Sofer

In a small house in Bnei Brak sat R' Yaakov Yehuda Silberberg [zt'l], lashing out against "Academia," the Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official authority of the State. He sought to prove, linguistically, that the `one language' mentioned in this week's parsha refers to the most ancient language in the world.


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