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Sharon Cuts to the Right: Promises No More Evacuations, and
3,000 Apartments in Ariel
According to the Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim, the Defense Minister has approved the construction of 3,000 new apartments in Ariel over the next ten years, almost doubling the number of residents which currently stands at 17,000. The prime minister's office denied the report, saying that only 117 new residential units were approved for construction.
The High Court heard a petition on Sunday demanding the
botei knesses of Gush Katif be left intact. HaRav
Simchah HaKohen Kook, the rov of Rechovot, appeared before
the court, asking the enlarged bench of seven judges to order
the government to turn to the UN organizations and the US
authorities to demand international guarantees to preserve
the botei knesses in areas to be handed over to the
Palestinian Authority, which announced that it would not
guard them.
Beitar Illit Mayor Rabbi Yitzchok Pindrus petitioned the High
Court to issue a nisi order instructing the Education
Minister and the Finance Minister to explain why the
government's hot-lunch program was not instituted in all of
the primary schools in Beitar Illit for the 5766 school
year.
Betzedek has filed a preliminary administrative petition against the City of Kiryat Yam, demanding that it enforce the "Gafni Law" which requires local authorities to pay for the transportation of students who choose to enroll at Chinuch Atzmai schools outside of their place of residence.
Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tikshores recently signed
additional contracts with Cellcom and Pelephone to develop
and market cell-phone models suited for the chareidi
public.
HaGaon R' Boruch Shraga, av beis din of the Jerusalem Rabbinate and Beis Yosef; HaGaon R' Tzvi Friedman, member of the Shearis Yisroel Beis Din; HaGaon R' Yisroel Fishbein, member of the Agudas Yisroel Beis Din; HaGaon R' Amrom Offman, moreh tzedek at the Eidoh Chareidis; HaGaon R' Yosef B. Wosner, member of the Elad Beis Din
"We will assist dormitory Torah institutions whose budgets were cut one year ago as well as Torah-based frameworks for students not [enrolled] at existing institutions using funding sources beyond the State budget," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised Deputy Welfare Minister MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz during a meeting on the issues of welfare and education.
Delegates to African Jewish Congress Discuss Jewish Life Delegates from seven Sub-Saharan African countries gathered in Johannesburg at the end of August to attend the 11th annual meeting of the African Jewish Congress.
Approximately 5,000 copies of Nazi cassettes have been sold
in Israel according to a report to the Knesset Immigration
and Absorption Committee on neo-Nazi movements among new
immigrants.
Thousands Still on Rooftops and Attics in New
Orleans Over a week after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf of
Mexico leaving New Orleans inundated with water, rescue
forces are still trying to reach thousands of people waiting
in the attics or on the rooftops of their homes. They will
also have to bury the thousands who are believed to have died
and whose remains have not yet been recovered.
Becoming Mentschen or Becoming Western?
Every year the Israeli media in this season is full of self- congratulatory, heartwarming articles about the opening of the new secular school year. Education is certainly a good thing, isn't it? Chosen Mishpat Issues in the Modern World — What a
Modern Beis Din Must Cope With We paid a visit to HaRav Yehuda Silman, of Bnei Brak, a prominent posek, and, wedging ourselves in between his many visitors and other affairs, engaged him in a talk about the laws of Choshen Mishpat which are becoming increasingly important but complex. We were able to ask some penetrating questions and to get frank answers.
More Observations . . .
The Day My Grandmother Jumped out the Window A very true story. In fact, Esther says the dialogue with the Nazi officer has been recalled almost verbatum. More Home & Family . . .
The Yeshiva World of Eretz Yisroel in the Nineteen
Twenties As Recorded in the Diary of a Bochur from Slobodka-
Chevron What is the Key to the Heart?
May-July, 2005
The Message of an Earthquake A Mission to Spread Daas Torah Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
Additional Luach Information The Shabbos after Tishah B'Av is called Shabbos Nachamu because of the haftorah in Yeshaya 40 "Console, console My people" that is said on that Shabbos. This haftoroh starts a series of shivah denechemosah (seven haftoros of consolation). The fifteenth of Menachem Av (Tu B'Av) is considered a Yom Tov because of several reasons: First, it is the day that bnei Yisroel stopped dying in the Sinai Desert. Second, bnei Yisroel were then allowed to marry from one shevet to the other, and those from shevet Binyomin were allowed to marry within bnei Yisroel. Third, on this day Hoshei'a ben Aloh removed the barricades originally put up by Yerovam ben Navot preventing bnei Yisroel to be oleh regel. Fourth, bnei Yisroel then stopped chopping down wood for the mizbei'ach and therefore they had more time to study Torah. Sixth, on this day those killed in Beitar were buried.
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