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An Ongoing Battle
Despite the fact that Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Bureau of
Public Affairs, at the United States Department of State,
announced on Sunday evening that Israel had agreed to an
immediate 48-hour suspension of aerial strikes in the wake of
the disaster at the village of Qana in Lebanon early on
Sunday, Israel made clear that it was not a cease-fire and it
was continuing the fight.
Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, HaRav Aharon Leib
Shteinman and HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz shlita
issued a special notice warning against an attempt by the
Education Ministry to force seminaries to add a third year of
studies and academic coursework for teachers-in-training.
Based on their demand, the Education Ministry has withheld
funds from the seminaries.
At a grand event attended by the Minister of Trade and
Industry, the Mayor, the head of the Malam Group and other
distinguished guests, the Malam Group inaugurated Maalot
— The Center for Development and Training in Beitar
Illit.
HaRav Nissim Karelitz' beis din in Bnei Brak rejected
a petition that Machon Hamikdash and its head, Rabbi Yisrael
Ariel, filed in response to an opinion piece published in the
Hebrew edition of Yated Ne'eman.
The South African Jewish community continues to show
exceptionally high levels of commitment to Jewish religious
practice and identity, and correspondingly low levels of
intermarriage and assimilation, according to a comprehensive
new attitudinal survey.
The Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee approved bringing a
government law to cancel continued cuts in Children's
Allowances for second and third readings.
The Committee of friends of Torah Institutions in Azerbaijan,
under the leadership of HaRav Moshe Kishon (Kashei), chief
rabbi and av beis din of Azerbaijan, has decided to
organize a special visit by a delegation of rabbonim, public
personalities and philanthropists which will soon depart for
the country, to strengthen the local community and to address
the issue of how to increase spiritual rescue and strengthen
Torah there.
The annual Chinuch Atzmai summer day camps, which were held
in 115 of the movement's schools all over the country from
Dimona and Yeruchom in the south to Bet She'an and Chatzor in
the north, have ended. The programs included rich and varied
educational and social activities for approximately twenty
thousand pupils who spent their time in an exciting,
educational framework after the end of the school year.
Meoros HaDaf HaYomi Holds Siyum in Natzeret Illit Bomb
Shelter Dozens of shiur members took part in a siyum of
maseches Yuma held in the bomb shelter of a beis
knesses in Natzeret Illit as Katyushas landed in the
city.
Torah Judaism Embraces Both Faith and Reason
In Judaism faith and reason are partners. In Christianity
they are opponents. Ignorance of — or failure to fully
appreciate — this truth, has led to very upsetting
analogies. What is a Human Being?
The secular world bombards us with messages — both
explicit and implicit — that human beings are simply
intelligent members of the animal kingdom. It would seem that
the whole advertising industry is built upon the very
profitable premise that we are very much subject to
manipulation by internal drives and external pressures.
Return Serializing a new novel.
Chapter 27: Epilogue
A year after the court case in New York, a new building was
completed on a once-vacant-lot in Geulah. Each floor
consisted of one apartment.
Big Families: The Joy of the Blessing
"They contribute, they participate, they do, they bring up,
they help."
Who are they?
That's how Hadassa (not her real name) describes children of
families blessed with many children. Our generation has
merited a real blessing, a blessing of children; families
with fourteen or eighteen children are not rare.
The Quest for the Temple Vessels Memories of HaRav Shach, zt"l
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