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UN Official: Hizbullah are "Cowards" who Hide Behind
Civilians Jan Egeland, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, accused Hizbullah of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel.
July 11th — Thursday — Yud Zayin Tammuz I went to a class this morning. It was fantastic! It lasted five hours. The rav spoke about fear, about different people in the Chumash, looking at the lives of the Ovos and what we can learn from them. One woman, from Australia, was scared because of the bombing at 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. I told her that I've lived in Safed nearly two decades and there's never been anything in Safed! Nothing at all! And that Safed is the safest place in the world.
The Rabbinical Conference for the Correction of Conversion
closed last week in Jerusalem with a series of decisions
calling for stricter guidelines requiring solid proof that
conversion candidates have genuine intentions to keep Torah
and mitzvos before approving their conversion.
As part of efforts to meet the needs of families from northern communities forced to leave their homes and seek shelter in the Central Region, a special afternoon study program is being organized for students who had to leave their yeshivas and join their families in other cities.
A disturbing, divisive parade that threatened to offend all
of Torah-true Jewry, and indeed all moral people, and
undermined the sanctity of the holy city of Jerusalem has
been cancelled.
A remark overheard again and again as the more than 2,000 men and women who had just spent more than an hour praying together for the safety and security of their beleaguered brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel filed out of the large beis medrash in Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn was: "The davening felt a lot like Yom Kippur."
Tefilloh and his'orerus gatherings are being held around the country and many communities have even organized 24-hour Tehillim watches in response to the difficult state of affairs in Eretz Hakodesh.
Hatzoloh Yisroel is continuing its operational and humanitarian activities for Galilee residents during these long days of heavy fighting in the North. Hatzoloh medics in Tzfas, Chatzor, Tiberius, Carmiel and Nahariya continue to administer first aid to dozens of people harmed by the unremitting rocket attacks on northern cities.
Agudath Israel in Defense Of Rockland County Shabbos House In response to the Village of Suffern's attempt to use zoning laws to close down an Orthodox Jewish health service agency's Shabbos hospitality house, a coalition of Orthodox groups has filed a friend of the court brief in federal district court in support of the house, charging the village with violations of the U.S. and New York Constitutions and the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 ("RLUIPA").
Tisha B'Av 5766: Learning to Build While the Bombs Fall
Some years, like this one, we do not have to be reminded to mourn. With our outside enemies openly trying to wreak another churban upon us, we find it natural to seize the tools of our forefathers and cry out to Hashem for help. Why Was the Land Lost? Part II This is a collection of various remarks by Maran HaRav Eliashiv about the Churban. Each stands on its own.
Return Serializing a new novel. Chapter 26: Later that Day in New York City Daniel has met his parents in Jerusalem, and now they have gotten together with his wife Esther and Rav Dov to catch up on what has happened. Meanwhile, in New York . . .
A Sharp Lesson. It was Thursday evening. Batya was pleased with herself; the house was clean, the challos were baked, she had managed to bake a cake as well and the salads were just waiting to be seasoned in the morning. She had left very little for the relatively short winter Friday. More Home & Family . . .
The Crusades: Murder in the Name of Love and Mercy Fences
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
EARLIER EDITORIALS A Mission to Spread Daas Torah Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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