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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed to a request by Justice
Minister Yosef Lapid (Shinui) at this week's cabinet meeting
to address the recommendations formulated by the Bar-On
Committee regarding civil marriage registry in Israel.
Last week, 19 months after the original attacks in late Elul
5761 (9/11/01), the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States released a final, unanimous book-
length report that showed that much of what had been common
wisdom about the September 11 attacks was wrong.
An estimated 130,000 people formed a human chain that
stretched 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Gaza to Jerusalem to
protest the disengagement plan. It was said to be the third
longest such chain in history.
Attorney Yehoshua Shifman, assistant to the Attorney General,
joined Shinui MKs on Monday in voicing opposition to proposed
legislation to require a mezuzoh be posted on every
public facility in Israel.
HaRav Yitzchok Zilber zt"l was niftar on 8 Av at
the age of 87. The levaya left from the Ezras Torah
shul in Sanhedria Murchevet at 11 p.m. on the night of Tisha
B'Av. Many thousands attended.
22nd Annual Mifal HaShas Gathering Gedolei Yisroel called for increased Torah study as a
response to the harsh decrees on the Torah world during the
22nd Annual Nesius Meeting of the Worldwide Mifal HaShas,
held this year at the home of HaRav Gershon Edelstein, one of
the roshei yeshivos at Yeshivas Ponovezh in Bnei Brak.
Staunch protests by men and women praying at the Kosel
succeeded in upholding the kedushoh of the Western
Wall Plaza by preventing a group of women from holding a
Torah- reading ceremony in the Ezras Noshim on Rosh Chodesh
Av. Beware of Yichud in X-ray Rooms We have been asked to alert the public to the serious
stumbling block in terms of yichud during x-raying or
CT scanning, and similar procedures, since Health Ministry
regulations require the doors of the x-ray room to close and
lock automatically. The Correct and Realistic Call to the Jews of France
According to the newspapers, the diplomatic tension that was
generated between Israel and France by Prime Minister
Sharon's call to French Jews to come to Israel has been
relieved. However the obtuseness and absurdity -- not to
mention the detachment from reality -- that were obviously
behind the prime minister's public pronouncement will
unfortunately not go away so quickly.
Memoirs
After the Second World War, my mother wrote letters to people
she had known in Russia, who had been neighbors of her
parents and their children. Three neighbors answered that
they had seen the Germans shooting all the people as they
were running away; among them had been my Mother's dear ones.
We shared my mother's weeping and tried hard to comfort her.
Many years passed before she was able to cease mourning every
day. Sheyiboneh Beis Hamikdosh In Exile With the Torah
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