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NEWS
Employment Project for Modi'in Illit Women Gains
Momentum
Spitting in Jerusalem Fans Antisemitism in Armenia
By Betzalel Kahn Through concerted efforts by Degel HaTorah Secretary MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, funding for the months of January and February will be transferred to the yeshivas within the next few days although the national budget for 2005 has not yet been approved in its second and third readings. MK Gafni: NRP Resigned from the Coalition Due to the Disengagement Plan, Not Collapse of Religious Services By Eliezer Rauchberger The Knesset plenum rejected on Monday two no-confidence motions submitted by opposition parties, one on the issue of the failure to pay religious council employees their salaries and the other on the dire state of hospital wards. MK Ravitz Protests Failure to Rescind Budget Cut for Chareidi Kindergartens By G. Lazer MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz sent a sharply-worded letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday accusing certain government figures of failing to meet a promise made to Degel HaTorah to work toward reversing a harsh 15 percent budget cut for chareidi kindergartens. Government Unanimously Approves Plan to Advance Religious Services By Betzalel Kahn The government unanimously approved a series of proposals by the Prime Minister's Office and the Housing Ministry intended to improve state religious services, including the immediately resumption of construction work on mikvo'os and botei knesses, offsetting the local authorities' debts to the religious councils and transferring the funds directly and increasing the number of positions and funding for mikveh workers. Manchester Prepares for Central Shas Siyumby Yated Ne'eman Staff The Manchester kehilloh is eagerly awaiting the
central event to mark the Siyum HaShas for participants at
the Daf Yomi Beis Medrash, headed by HaRav Simchah Chaim
Bamberger.
by Yated Ne'eman Staff A prominent delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis
(CER) attended the Auschwitz memorial ceremonies in Cracow
and Auschwitz/Birkenau. It included the Chief Rabbi of Moscow
(Rabbi P Goldschmidt), Chief Rabbi of Ukraine (Rabbi Y
Bleich) and Cllr A Dunner, Executive Director of the CER.
By G. Kleiman On every 20th of the month during the current fiscal year, Bezeq donates 5 percent of the income from phone calls made that day to community organizations for the sick and needy. Large Gathering to Launch Itim LeTorah in Beitar Illitby Yated Ne'eman Staff Gedolei Yisroel were to attend a large event held Tuesday night to honor the Torah and its lomdim by announcing the founding of the Beitar Illit branch of Itim LeTorah to increase the number of shiurim available to every stratum of the city's population. Miracle at Avos U'Bonim Head Officeby Yated Ne'eman Staff Motzei Shabbos Parshas Beshalach, Rabbi Dovid Herskowitz's phone rang. "There has been a break-in at the Avos U'Bonim office, please come immediately!" HaRav Efraim Zalesnick zt"lBy Betzalel Kahn Thousands of bnei Torah, including leading roshei yeshivos and talmidei chachomim from Jerusalem, participated in the levaya for HaRav Efraim Zalesnick, zt"l, who passed away at the age of 74 on 25 Shevat. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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