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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. More Home & Family . . .
The Akeidoh The Kotel Tunnels—The Decision, the Riots, the
Meaning, the Beauty and the Hidden Glory
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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