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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.
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.
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?
A Mission to Spread Daas Torah
Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit
The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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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