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In a closed meeting on Tuesday, the Knesset Finance Committee
accepted the compromises worked out in the original Bachar
Committee reforms of the capital market. The final committee vote took
place Tuesday evening. Although the details that are being
argued about seem technical and abstruse, they affect the
disposition of billions of shekels, and most economists agree
that they are a very important step for the Israeli economy
as a whole.
Police are aggressively, but nonviolently, opposing the large
march planned by opponents of the Disengagement. As we go to
press, marchers are gathered in Kfar Maimon and would like to
walk towards Gaza, but the police are not letting them leave
the area. Bnei Brak sanitation workers resumed their normal work
schedule on Monday following an interim agreement the
respective representatives of the municipality and the
employees reached during a hearing Monday morning at the Tel
Aviv District Labor Court.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was choked by
tears and had to interrupt his speech for a few moments
during a ceremony at the Vel d'Hiver memorial at Drancy to
mark the 63rd anniversary since the big roundup of Parisian
Jews. He read aloud a letter written by a child at the Drancy
Detention Camp describing the horrendous conditions and the
fears the Jews faced at the Nazi transit camp run by the
French under the Vichy government.
Both religious and nonreligious residents in Haifa's Ramat
Alon neighborhood held a protest demonstration Tuesday
evening against the opening of a pork store in the heart of a
residential area across the street from the neighborhood's
main beis knesses.
The executive board of the Religious Council of Jerusalem
filed a High Court petition against the appointments of HaRav
Binyomin Adler and HaRav Yosef Efrati as the rabbonim vested
with the exclusive authority to issue kashrus certificates to
businesses in Jerusalem.
Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer and Deputy
Welfare Minister Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz met for a conversation
termed an "opening dialogue" on various welfare issues. The
meeting was also attended by the head of the Bank of Israel's
research division.
Financial Agreements Signed for Jerusalem Light Rail
System An agreement was signed in the Prime Minister's Office on
Sunday to raise NIS 1.9 billion for construction of the
initial phase of Jerusalem's light rail rapid transit
system.
Deputy Welfare Minister MK Avrohom Ravitz contacted the
chairman of Mifal Hapayis to request that he stop television
commercials calling on the public to buy lottery tickets in
the hopes of winning a salary for life. In his letter to
Mifal Hapayis Chairman Shimon Katzenelson, Rabbi Ravitz says
the commercials indirectly encourage a life of idleness, and
teach viewers to evade work.
Planning for the Jewish People without Chareidim
The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI), a think-
tank founded by the Jewish Agency to ponder the present and
future of the Jewish People, got headlines for their 2005
annual report published this month by announcing that
Israel's Jewish community will "soon" be the world's largest.
Right now, according to their assessment, it is just behind
the US, but the US community is declining while Israel's is
expanding. Hence Israel will soon overtake the US. Proper Torah Chinuch
Part III
In the first part, HaRav Diskin cited the example of the
dedication of the Menorah by the Maccabeeim on the
original Chanukah that showed that even if they could have
used impure oil to light the Menorah since it was for
communal purposes, since they were setting the foundation in
chinuch of the Menorah they had to use pure oil
in order to ensure that the subsequent avodas Hashem
using it would be proper.
Hyperactivity — from a Different Angle
Altogether
An `ADD'ed Blessing in Disguise
Puncturing the Hype about Hyper
The Other Half of Sitting Shiva When one sits shiva, may we not know from such things,
there are myriad halochos to keep on top of the
overwhelming emotions that can come suddenly and
unexpectedly. Below are true life advice/words of comfort
from the spouses of those sitting; from... the 'other
half.'
In the Proximity of Maran R' Yitzchok Zeev of Brisk
Ztvk'l
A Mission to Spread Daas Torah
Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit
The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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