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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. More Home & Family . . .
The Quest for the Temple Vessels Memories of HaRav Shach, zt"l
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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