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In the latest disconcerting decision by the High Court,
yarmulke-wearing Judge Edmund Levy ruled that funding for
chareidi educational institutions will be discontinued in
three years if they fail to adopt the Core Curriculum Program
guidelines. Saying that continuing the funding harms the
principle of equality since these institutions do not meet
the government's pedagogical requirements, the court upheld a
petition filed by the Organization of High School
Teachers.
The state prosecution will look into whether there is enough
evidence to justify a police investigation of Binyamin
Regional Council head Pinchas Wallerstein, who called on
Jewish settlers to "violate the immoral disengagement bill,"
the Justice Ministry announced on Monday.
"We will be happy to serve you all week and on Motzei
Shabbat," declares a notice at the Grand Canyon mall in
Haifa. This is not an exception these days. Many businesses
have been asking Haifa's Vaada Lemaan HaShabbat for stickers
indicating they observe Shabbos.
It seems that Shinui's influence on the government still
remains. At a joint meeting of the Finance and Education
Committees on Monday, representatives from the Prime
Minister's Office announced that they are opposed to
including talmud Torah students in the hot-lunch
program, arguing that the government cannot be expected to
provide meals for private institutions in the extended-day
program.
Rabbis and organizations
certifying kosher slaughter, including the Orthodox Union and the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel, fully support the practices at the
AgriProcessors plant in Postville, Ohio. Now there is
a list of
new demands by PETA which many spokesmen of the Orthodox
Jewish community call a blatant and flagrant intrusion into
the prerogatives of religious liberty.
Avi Naor is one of those who founded the Israeli software
company Amdocs in the 1980s. He became very rich from the
success of the company, and retired three years ago at age
53. Now he is trying to lower Israel's traffic accident
rate.
MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz sent a letter to all Knesset members
calling on them to fight Shinui's prejudice and to regularly
vote against every bill the party submits.
Work Remains to be Done on Preserving the Cemetery in
Lublin Further to the publication of reports of the renovation of
the kever of the Maharshal zy"o in Lublin, the
Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe
wishes to clarify a number of points:
After 55 years as a public corporation El Al was officially
privatized on Sunday and will now be controlled by
businessman Yisrael Borovich and his brother. Bill to Prevent Fake Sifrei Torah and Megillos The Knesset Interior Committee passed a motion to send for
its second and third readings a bill to prevent the sale or
distribution of phony sifrei Torah, and
megillos presented as kosher. South Korea Considers Emulating Yad Sarah Model A delegation of health and administration officials from
South Korea arrived in Eretz Yisroel to explore the
possibility of imitating the Yad Sarah model in Seoul.
The Core Program of the Ministry of Education is nothing more
than a raw exercise of the power of the majority to coerce
the chareidim to agree to their cultural destruction.
What's So Bad About Procrastination?
Part 2
In the first article we spoke about the bad effects that
procrastination has on our lives both on a ruchniyus
level and on a gashmiyus one, and that it is not only
practically a hindrance but that it is also intrinsically
bad. In this article, we will deal with a few of its causes
and some remedies.
The Shidduch
Racheli came into the apartment, dropped her purse by the
door and then dropped herself into the old wicker rocking
chair. After a rock or two, she called out to her two
roommates shmoozing at the back of the apartment.
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