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The Vaad HaRabbonim Supports Chief Rabbi Amar's New
Directive on Foreign Converts
Israel Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar made a surprise move by
starting to implement new regulations on registering
individuals who underwent conversions outside of Israel. The
Vaad HaRabbonim Haolami LeInyonei Giyur founded by HaRav
Chaim Kreiswirth expressed its strong support for the new
directive.
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared to go to
America to meet with senior US officials and to address the
US Congress, the US sent him a clear message: Do not ask for
any money at this time.
The High Court rejected a petition to annul the military
deferment law for yeshiva students but determined that the
law infringes on the dignity of the majority group that is
obligated to serve. The decision was reached by a majority of
eight judges against semiretired Deputy Chief Judge Mishael
Cheshin.
At the biannual convention of the Conference of European
Rabbis (CER) in London last week Chief Rabbi of France and
CER President HaRav Yosef Sitruk told a Yated Ne'eman
reporter that the Standing Committee had decided any rov
kehiloh who does not adhere to performing conversion only
according to halochoh would be dismissed from the
organization.
None of the Knesset committees will be headed by chareidi MKs
the Knesset Arranging Committee decided, leaving both United
Torah Judaism and Shas very disgruntled.
According to a newly passed law, taxpayers charged with
capital gains taxes may appeal the amount of the tax.
Everyone finds it annoying to wait on hold for Customer
Service, listening to an irritating jingle over and over
again — and to get charged for these "pleasures"
too!
Artscroll is launching a sales campaign in Israel for all of
its books through heavy advertising in the press, in botei
knesses and via direct mail. The company has already
distributed over 120,000 brochures in the form of newspaper
inserts in the Hebrew editions of Yated Ne'eman and
Hamodia as well as samples in botei knesses.
Universal Conversion Standards — Good for Everyone
Concerned
Everyone knows the story about a boat that illustrates how
the actions of an individual can affect everyone. Even though
one is drilling a hole that is entirely under his own seat,
the water that he lets in will eventually sink the entire
ship. If the structural integrity of a boat is compromised,
it will sink everyone riding in it. The Level of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
The Remains of Mon, the Taste of Mon
"And bnei Yisroel ate the mon for forty years
until they came to a habitable land; they ate the mon
until they came to the edge of the land of Canaan"
(Shemos 16:35). This posuk seems to contain a
contradiction, for it mentions two different places that
bnei Yisroel stopped eating mon.
Return Serializing a new novel.
Chapter 21: Belem—New York City, November 2001
— Part 2
Fay and Eli are back in New York City, after months and
months in the Amazon jungle.
Journey With Dyslexia
When I was young, I used to write a list of things I would
like for my birthday. Of course I never expected to get
everything on the list (still, one can hope, can't one?), but
my mother would try to choose something on the list, or
something similar that was more reasonably priced, to give me
for my birthday.
Faith in Medicine Suffering and the Sanctity of Life — HaRav Yitzchok
Silberstein Discusses a Range of Medical Issues
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On Tuesday night, the eve of 14 Nissan (Apr. 11) is the
search for chometz - bedikas chometz, and the
chometz is burnt the next morning, Erev Pesach,
Wednesday, 14 Nissan (Apr. 12) until the end of the zman
sreifas chometz. On erev Pesach the firstborn
fast— Ta'anis Bechoros.
Yov Tov Pesach falls on Thursday, 15 Nissan (Apr. 14), in
Eretz Yisroel, and on Thursday and Friday (Apr. 14-15) in
Chutz Le'aretz. The days until Shevi'i Shel
Pesach are Chol HaMo'ed.
From Mussaf of Yom Tov Pesach in Eretz Yisroel we say
morid hatal in Shemoneh Esreih instead of
vesen tal u-motor livrocho.
From Thursday night, Motzei Yom Tov Rishon Shel
Pesach, we count sefiras ha'omer until Shavuos.
The seforim hakedoshim write to make a meal on the
sixteenth of Nissan to remember the se'udas Esther
that she made when Homon was hanged (Mishnah Berurah,
490:2 from the Mogen Avrohom).
Shevi'i Shel Pesach falls on Wednesday, 21 Nissan
(April 19) and in Chutz Le'aretz also on Thursday, 22
Nissan (April 20) which is Yom Tov Sheini Shel Goliyos -
Shmini Shel Pesach.
Many are accustomed to read Pirkei Ovos after
Minchah of Shabbos, from Pesach until Rosh
HaShanah.
Our minhag is not to pray Yom Kippur Koton and
surely not to fast during the month of Nissan.
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