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Shin Bet head Avi Dichter reported to the Cabinet on Sunday
that some 70 percent of all suicide attacks have been foiled
since January 2003. Since January 2004 the success rate has
reached 77 percent (be'eizer Hashem). In absolute
terms, the security services foiled 84 suicide attacks since
January, 2003, but 36 bombers succeeded in blowing themselves
up.
Vaadas HaRabbonim Lemaan Kedushas HaShabbos, under the
auspices of gedolei Yisroel, is cautioning those
setting out on trips and excursions not to visit sites and
attractions that desecrate Shabbos.
Following recently publicized material about these issues,
that Vaadat HaRabbonim of Degel HaTorah hereby makes it
clear:
One of the most senior US officials, National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice, said Sunday that the United States
and its allies "cannot allow the Iranians to develop a
nuclear weapon" and warned that President Bush would "look at
all the tools that are available to him" to stop Iran's
program.
An annual conference for chareidi businessmen and
entrepreneurs was held in Jerusalem last week. Initiated by
the Jerusalem Center for Fostering Enterprise, the conference
was held on the theme, "Setting Up a Business as a Source of
Livelihood" and was designed to provide knowledge and tools
for businessmen and entrepreneurs from the chareidi sector as
well as information on business assistance.
Recently, supposedly ancient letters or manuscripts by Torah
and Chassidus gedolim of several generations ago have
been offered for sale to people willing to pay enormous sums,
though the items are outright counterfeits.
Barring a dramatic turnaround in the country's fortunes,
organized Jewish life in Zimbabwe seems destined to fade away
altogether within the next few years. Jewish Population in Judea, Samaria and Gaza Up 12,000 in
One Year The Jewish population of Judea, Samaria and Gaza increased by
12,306 over the past year (July 2003 through June 2004)
according to Interior Ministry figures. About a third of the
increase is due to chareidi births in Modi'in Illit and
Beitar that are counted as settlements. Tzedokoh Collected at Holy Sites Given to Soup
Kitchens The Support Committee at the Ministry of Welfare has
announced that funds from tzedokoh boxes at various
holy sites were distributed to 12 different soup kitchens
around the country. Challenges of the Modern World: Building Torah Foundations
"And you should be careful to do them, because it is through
this that you will be considered wise and understanding by
the peoples [of the world], who will hear about all these
laws and say, `This great nation is definitely a wise and
understanding people.' " This posuk in parshas
Voeschanon (4:6) is well known.
The Last Day
A slight noise was heard from the street below. The daylight,
as well as the noise, filtered in through the broken pane of
the small window. The public life of the Warsaw ghetto street
seeped along with the noise and cold air into the small room
upstairs. As the street life began its pulse, the privacy of
Rebbetzin Brocho Raizel, wife of the deceased Admor of
Kolovail, was forcibly invaded. Reb Chaim Yisroel Eiss, the Man at the Center of
Orthodoxy's World War II Rescue Activities The Children who were Rescued from the Convent |
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