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The Calm this Year was Due to Israel Security Services, not
Palestinian Restraint Almost all of 2005 was within the period of tahdia (declared calm) that began on January 22 of that year, but nonetheless there were 2,990 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets.
Buses transporting students to and from 100 Chinuch Atzmai
schools around the country stopped running on Monday and
Tuesday when the government failed to provide funding.
A report that the Council for Child Welfare released on 25
Kislev added fuel to the fire of public debate and drew
numerous responses from across the public and political
spectrum.
On the last day of the 2005 fiscal year Jewish culture organizations received 60 percent of the funding earmarked for them in the 2005 budget. The prolonged delay in the transfer of funding was the result of an ongoing debate between the Education Ministry and Attorney Amnon de Hartog, head of the Support Department at the Justice Ministry.
Preparations for a major event to encourage the study of the
Daf Yomi and halochoh, scheduled to take place at Jerusalem's
Binyanei Ha'Uma on 15 Teves to mark the completion of
maseches Eruvin and the beginning of maseches
Pesochim, are now stepping into high gear.
Mordechai Molozhenov, a yeshiva student who was bludgeoned by
skinheads in Kiev five months ago and brought to Israel for
treatment in critical condition with little hope of recovery,
regained consciousness and is now scheduled to be discharged
from the Beit Levenstein Rehabilitation Hospital in
Raanana.
Last week the mainstream press (Ma'ariv) published an eye-catching article. The writer, Dr. Shlomo Tzadok, defines himself as a secular Jew and a social activist. Under the headline "Chilonim Le'atzmam" ("Secularists for Themselves") the writer mercilessly thrashes secular families for failing to adopt children like chareidi, religious and traditional families do.
According to a report in the Israeli business magazine Globes, Jerusalem has a shortage of 1,000 industrial workers, including 600 high tech workers. Jobs that are available include positions at prestigious employers like Intel (Israel), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., NDS Group, Deltathree (Nasdaq: DDDC), Oren Semiconductor, Matrix IT, Biometrix Ltd., General Microwave Corp. (Israel), Beit Shemesh Engines and other companies.
Despite an order by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss to the Education Ministry requiring the Guaranteed Income Committee to pay Guaranteed Income stipends to avreichim whose wives are on sabbatical leave, recently Attorney Amnon de Hartog, head of the Support Department at the Justice Ministry, issued instructions not to pay the stipends.
Who is Yated's Intended Audience?
Soon after the English Yated began publication, we had an opportunity to visit Maran HaRav Shach zt"l. In the course of our short conversation, we asked if the intended audience of the paper is "bnei Torah." Maran answered that the paper should be written for "all chareidim."
A Letter of Admonishment Regarding N. Slifkin's
Opinions translated and annotated by R. Simcha Coffer The following is a letter written by HaRav Shlomo Miller, the rosh kollel and av beis din of the Kollel Avreichim of Toronto. The letter was written in loshon hakodesh. Accordingly, its colloquial form has been maintained wherever possible in an attempt to preserve its original flavor.
Return Serializing a new novel. Chapter 9: New York — The Meeting in the Parking Lot Fred Smith saw something strange at his missing employers' apartment and put into place his plans to flee. He went to Switzerland. Dean is in Jerusalem. And those who pursued them are in New York City.
MEMOIRS I remember very well the first time I walked past the future home of the Bais Yaakov in Baltimore. The grounds included acres of land, dozens of trees and lush lawns surrounding one large building. Alongside it was a small building that had served former owners as a stable for their horses and buggy and which became a roomy garage. More Home & Family . . .
The Vision and the Rescue Mission: A Historical Survey of
Torah Development in Eretz Hakodesh and the US Granny Was Right: Modern Day Folk Medicine
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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