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PM Shows Positive Signs As Anesthesia Reduced; Previous
Treatment Contributed to Problem Due to Undiagnosed
Ailment
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains in serious condition,
even as his doctors reduce the drugs given to him and he
shows signs that his brain is working.
The crisis over buses for Chinuch Atzmai schools may soon be
solved. At a large meeting on Monday the Education and
Justice Ministries were given 48 hours to prepare new
criteria for funding the Chinuch Atzmai transportation
system. The meeting had originally been scheduled for Sunday
but was postponed due to the Prime Minister's condition.
Nili Tamir is the owner of BMT Bio Marketing (Tel/Fax: 04-639-
6116), a company that makes, imports and markets home
diagnostic kits. Currently her company sells a kit that
allows everyone to do a test for strep throat and have the
results immediately.
1. ONIONS
At this time of year, there are 4 types of onions on the
market in Eretz Yisroel:
a) specially-grown ("Gush Katif") onions,
b) onions from the new crop, with scanty yellow peel (semi-
dry onions),...
Meoros HaDaf HaYomi and other Daf Yomi organizations have
been flooded with an unprecedented wave of requests for new
shiurim inspired by the billing for the major Daf Yomi
event scheduled to take place on Sunday 15 Teves (January) at
Binyanei Ha'Uma in Jerusalem.
The workers of the Chevra LeOtomatzia Shel Hashilton Hamekomi
(Local Authorities Automation Company) are carrying out a
wildcat strike at the Jerusalem Municipality, wreaking havoc
with the computer system.
"Had we received a sixth mandate in the 2003 election,"
Modi'in Illit Council Head Rabbi Yaakov Guterman told
Yated Ne'eman, "we and the Jewish people in the State
of Israel would have been spared great misfortune.
The 34th European Yarchei Kalloh held at the Normandie
Hotel in Bournemouth closed on Monday 2 Teves-January 2,
after a rousing appeal by the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Boruch Dov
Povarsky, rosh yeshivas Ponovezh, for an ever increasing
level of limud haTorah among the chareidi communities
throughout the world.
The Agudas Yisroel of America Yarchei Kalloh in Jerusalem
will focus on the sugiyoh of Kiddush and Havdoloh.
Challenges of the Modern World: Diabetes and Obesity are
Immoral
The incidence of diabetes is soaring in the United States.
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) calls it an epidemic.
Seven percent of all Americans are now known to have the
disease. In New York City the figures are even higher: almost
thirteen percent of all New Yorkers now have diabetes.
The Sweetness of a Svora
The Value of an Answer Said with Toil
HaRav Dovid Magnes told of the time he joined Rabbenu R'
Boruch Ber Leibowitz at his Friday night table. In the course
of the meal he showed his host a difficult Rambam which was
being dealt with in the yeshiva and posed his question.
Rabbenu provided a brilliant answer on the spot. At the end
of the meal, Rabbenu went out to the yard and paced its
length for a long time, sefer in hand, mulling over
the question.
Return Serializing a new novel.
Chapter 10: Esther, Jerusalem July 2000 - Part 1
We leave Fred Smith, Daniel, and his parents in the
Amazon, to meet Esther of Jerusalem.
The Many Sides of Life
A half hour before Shabbos, Malkie Klein knew that there
might be a serious problem. "There is nothing to be done
about it now," she told herself. "This will have to wait
until after Shabbos. Until then, Shabbos is Shabbos."
Memories of HaRav Shach zt"l Innovations in Chessed
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