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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.
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
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