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Qaida Criminal Threatens Israel; Attack on US Embassy in
Damascus
Ayman al-Zawahri, reportedly al-Qaida's second in command,
warned in a videotape aired Monday September 11, the fifth
anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington,
DC, that Israel and Persian Gulf countries are al-Qaida's
next targets. On Tuesday there was an armed attack on the US
Embassy in Damascus. Three of the attackers and one of the
defenders were killed. No American casualties were
reported.
Although Halichos Sodeh is a top journal on the
mitzvas tied to Eretz Yisroel, the monthly has a very modest
distribution. But Torah scholars engaged in these
sugyos know that the journal, published by the
Institute for Research on Torah-Based Agriculture, contains a
hidden treasure of chidushim. The current edition,
Vol. 149, is no exception.
Chareidi activists and public figures have begun to organize
for group purchase of apartments in secular neighborhoods in
Jerusalem.
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni prevented Bezeq from carrying out a
project that would have required hundreds of employees,
including observant employees, to work on Shabbos. The order
to halt the work was given by Bezeq's new board chairman,
Atty. Dov Weissglass.
An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was felt in
many parts of the Central Region at 8:00 am Shabbos morning.
The epicenter was near the Dead Sea.
Chief Rabbi Metzger issued an urgent demand to PM Ehud Olmert
and Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson to cancel the
paragraph in the 2007 Arrangements Law that would eliminate
the religious councils (moatzot dat) and transfer
religious services directly to the local authorities.
The National Center for Family Purity in Eretz Yisroel is
renovating several mikvo'os around the country.
Over 1,000 students were integrated into Torah-based schools
following an extensive enrollment drive by Acheinu.
Increased Enrollment at Shuvu Schools The 5767 year opened at Shuvu schools across the country with
2,000 new students enrolled at the organization's
kindergartens, primary schools and high schools.
Why Study Half-True Science When You Can Learn True Torah?
C. Sidney Burwell, the dean of Harvard Medical School from
1935 to 1949, is reported to have told his students, "Half of
what you are taught as medical students will in ten years
have been shown to be wrong, and the trouble is, none of your
teachers knows which half." In Your Mouth and in Your Heart
A Hope that Is Close at Hand
In just a few days, the great day will arrive when we all
stand in judgment before Hashem. The sages of the generations
discovered that one of the ways of obtaining acquittal in
this trial is through acceptance.
The Minyon
It was a small shul with very few members. The
regulars were only seven elderly men, and every day, the
gabbai, Elimelech, had to go out to find three extra
men to make up the minyon.
The Akeidoh The Kotel Tunnels—The Decision, the Riots, the
Meaning, the Beauty and the Hidden Glory
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