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We Fight Cruelty with Chessed; and Fight Death with Life

It could have been nothing but hatred that motivated Hizbullah to attack along the northern border and take two prisoners. There was no action or event that provided any pretext for their attack — just their evident desire to murder and maim Jews, made so painfully clear in the weeks since then.

HaRav Shach's Battle Against False Messianism
by Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz

When the Lubavitch movement began its messianic propaganda, Maran girded himself to fight this group and the one who headed it. During this period, when Maran first came out with his opposition in public, the messianic message was still somewhat covert with innocent sounding mottos and slogans. The public was not yet aware what lay behind them.

This is the Segulah of the Torah
In the Home of Hagaon R' Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita

Part I

"He left behind a son like him." This is how Maran the Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Shach ztvk'l expressed it in his eulogy for Maran the Steipler ztvk'l. In a rare moment, the editor of the Hebrew Yated's Musaf Shabbos Kodesh, R' Yisroel Friedman, and writer of these lines, HaRav A. Chefetz, were admitted into the inner sanctum of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky.

A Few Lessons from the British
by Chaim Walder

1. No Horns

I didn't hear a single car horn during my first two weeks in London. I don't mean the kind of long, irritated, insulting honks in Israel every time a red light turns green. I mean not even light honking. Not even a single staccato honk. That is not to say there are no traffic jams here. There are plenty. Neither does it mean the British always dash off the instant the light turns green. The British never dash off anywhere, nor are they ever in pursuit of anyone. And most of all they don't honk.

Politica: Aiding the Enemy
By E. Rauchberger

Freedom of speech is essential in any democracy and stretching it to the limits is legitimate and perhaps even required in a country that holds high the banner of democracy.


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