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The science establishment has banned and blacklisted a respected scientist merely because he allowed an article about Intelligent Design to be printed in a journal that he edited, and even though the article was peer-reviewed.
First Israel was supposed to hand over four cities to
Palestinian security control. Then it was reduced to Jericho
first, to be handed over on Tuesday, since there was
relatively little violence there in recent years. However
Israeli and PA officials failed to agree on a number of
issues on Monday, so there was no transfer on Tuesday.
Under the slogan Yachad Shivtei Yisroel, and with feelings of spiritual uplift and simchah shel mitzvoh, a committee has been set up to organize the various events scheduled to mark the completion of the current Daf Yomi cycle followed by Jews around the globe in accordance with the program originally outlined by the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin HaRav Meir Shapira. Other related articles:
The conversion section at the Prime Minister's Office nearly doubled the number of so-called conversions performed in 2004 for immigrants from the former Soviet Union according to the figures presented to the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee.
A group of Conservative women held another of its provocative
gatherings at the Kosel on Rosh Chodesh Adar, despite a High
Court directive to the State to build an alternative plaza at
the Robinson Arch at a cost of NIS 2 million to satisfy such
demands.
The Knesset Interior Committee approved a law setting fixed
dates for daylight savings time. According to the law,
proposed by MK David Azoulai (Shas) and Eli Aflalo (Likud),
daylight savings time will begin as close as possible to
April 1st (depending presumably on the day of the week that
April 1st falls out) and will end on Motzei Shabbos Shuvoh. Rabbi Gafni: Secular Youth Growing Up Without Values "The Israeli child grows up today without any values because
the secular education system has gone bankrupt," said MK
Rabbi Moshe Gafni in a meeting of the Knesset Education
Committee on the topic of values and education. "Secular
youth used to have values like land and the importance of the
State, but today it has nothing."
At a meeting this week, the Chief Rabbinate Council denounced the dismissal of HaRav Binyomin Adler, the rov posek of the Jerusalem Rabbinate's kashrus department.
Education Ministry Transfers the 15 percent Missing from
Chareidi Kindergarten Funding The Education Ministry transferred funding to cover the 15
percent cut in the budget for chareidi kindergartens
following protests by MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz over the
government's failure to carry out its pledge to rectify this
funding cut, which applied to chareidi kindergartens
alone.
Last week, after playing around with Western efforts to stop its nuclear bomb development program for several years, North Korea announced that it has an atomic bomb. Iran is engaged in elaborate diplomatic games with the West to gain time to develop its bomb before the West can force it to halt development. Most analysts view an Iranian bomb as a very serious threat, given Iran's enthusiastic support of extreme Islamist positions including the free use of terror through its control of Hizbullah in Lebanon. Lehagdil Torah Uleha'adiroh: To Make the Torah Great and
Glorious A shmuess about aspirations in Torah, as we approach the Siyum HaShas of Daf Hayomi.
Hashgacha Pratis loosely based on a true story "Is this your first trip to Israel?" the dark, curly-haired girl asked her seatmate. "Uh, actually it is. I wasn't really planning on coming to Israel, but this really cheap student trip came along and so I thought, 'why not?'" Becky answered. "How about you?" More Home & Family . . .
Battling For Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Orthodox Rescue
Committee in Post-War Europe The Most Awful Thing Was the Screeching of the Ravens . . .
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