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In Israel Children Less Than One Year Old Suffer from
Hunger In a comparative study with 15 European countries, Bituach Leumi found that Israel ranks second to last in terms of support for children, MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz told a Knesset plenum on Monday as he submitted a no-confidence motion together with NRP-HaIchud HaLeumi in reaction to the poverty affecting many segments of the population.
UTJ joined the municipal coalition in Beit Shemesh this week after party representatives Rabbi Moshe Montag, Rabbi Dovid Weiner and Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Berger signed an agreement with Mayor Daniel Vaknin and Likud councilmen.
The government has made another breach in the walls of
Judaism by bringing thousands of non-Jews into Eretz Yisroel
by granting citizenship to foreign workers who came to Israel
before the age of 14 and have lived here for at least six
years. UTJ announced that it strongly objects to the
decision.
The chareidi reading-book market mirrors the population increase. In recent years the number of Hebrew reading books has nearly tripled, with a large gap between the percentage of readers and the percentage of buyers.
Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital is scheduled to open a luxury
maternity ward planned by an architect who specializes in
hotel design. The ward, scheduled to open at the beginning of
Av, will be 50 percent larger than standard maternity wards
and will be set up to accommodate 42 mothers.
Volunteer Month opened in Jerusalem last week with over 30,000 volunteers working at dozens of organizations and municipal departments and serving needy segments of the population in the areas of welfare, community services, health care, immigrant absorption, etc.
Jerusalem Police arrested a young woman who disguised herself as a chareidi woman and stole dozens of purses from chareidi and other religious women.
The International Transparency Organization of Israel, which works to advance transparency and public ethics, released the results of a survey entitled Integrity in Local Government conducted by Dachaf in the country's larger cities. Jerusalem Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky received the highest marks with 70 percent of city residents indicating a favorable opinion and stood out for his honesty.
Wine Association to be Set Up to Encourage Exports Aiming to double wine exports to the US within three years, 20-30 wineries have joined to form the Israel Wine Association, said Exports Institute Director Yechiel Asia. In 2005 wine exports to North America came to $7.5 million.
The prohibition against going onto the Har Habayis today is well known. Because of the serious nature of the aveiroh that is involved — a potential issur koreis — virtually all rabbonim from all communities and even with the entire range of hashkofos, prohibit going onto Har Habayis today. Aspaklariah — Light on Contemporary Issues Part II The first part discussed the critical importance of simply staying apart from the nations of the world. As far back as the exile in Egypt, the Jews tried to blur the differences between themselves and their Egyptian hosts so that the latter would hate them less.
Observations: Are We Healthier If We Know That We Are
Sick? Americans are probably not sicker than the rest of the world - - they are just more knowledgeable about their sickness. With advances in medical technology making more sensitive detection of abnormalities in the body possible at increasingly lower cost, a lot of minor problems are being found — and treated — that would probably have gone unnoticed — and without any ill consequences. Return Serializing a new novel. Chapter 24: Jerusalem June 2002 — Part 1 As Eli and Fay are on their way to Israel. Fred Smith is also in Israel. We return to Daniel (Dean) and Esther.
They phoned to tell us of the engagement of their eleventh, and last, child. My daughter of twenty, who had not yet met her bashert, said wistfully, "How is it that their shidduchim go so easily?" I laughed and answered that we were invited to the engagements; we were not told of the trials and tribulations which preceded the happy event. We only heard of the successes, not of the ones which did not get off the ground. More Home & Family . . .
The International Cohen Committee Those Who Are Needy
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
Additional Luach Information According to the Ramo (494:3) we do not say tachanun from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after Isru Chag (there are other minhogim that do not say tachanun until after the seven days of hashlomoh that follow Shavuos). On Rosh Chodesh Sivan we do not say tachanun as we do on every Rosh Chodesh. The second of Sivan is called Yom HaMeyuchas since after yetzias Mitzrayim Hashem commanded Moshe to say to bnei Yisroel: "Now therefore if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own treasure from among all peoples" (Shemos 19:5) to prepare them for Torah. Afterwards, the third, forth, and fifth of Sivan are the Sheloshes Yemei Hagboloh when bnei Yisroel waited for kabolas HaTorah (Mishnah Berurah 494:8, and see Shabbos 86-88). Shavuos falls on Friday, 6 Sivan (June 2) and in Chutz La'aretz also on Shabbos, 7 Sivan (June 3). An eruv Tavshilin must be made on erev Shavuos, Thursday, in order to be permitted to cook on the first day of Shavuos, Friday, for Shabbos.
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