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German Foreign Minister Promises to Implement Ghetto Work Law
Passed four years ago, almost all of the applicants have
been turned down "I turn to you as acting Welfare Minister and as one who sees himself as the representative of thousands of Jews rescued from the fires. The manner of implementation and the legal interpretation of the Ghetto Work Law [Gesetz zur Zahlbarmachung von Renten aus Beschaftigungen in einem Ghetto, known by the German initials ZRBG — Ed] in Germany are defined very strictly.
On Tuesday the New York Times reported that United
States and Israel were considering a campaign to starve the
Palestinian Authority of cash so that Palestinians would grow
disillusioned with Hamas and bring down the Hamas government.
Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisroel again submitted a joint
Knesset list to the Central Election Committee at the last
minute, and once again chose to use the letter
"Gimmel" on ballot slips. The list for the joint
party, known as United Torah Jewry and Shabbos-Agudas Yisroel
Degel HaTorah, was submitted by Rabbi Avrohom Weber and Rabbi
Moshe Shiffman of Degel HaTorah and Rabbi Shlomo Vidslavsky
and Rabbi Yosef Deutsch of Agudas Yisroel.
Following a legal battle stretching nearly five years, the High Court determined that the decision by the Housing Ministry's Tenders Committee to annul the tender for build it yourself plots of land in the Shachar neighborhood located in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel merely because the winners were chareidi, was illegal.
Nobody needs to be reminded of the sour grapes produced by
the Likud-Shinui-NRP government. All of us suffer from them
to this day. In hindsight, some might say Sharon wanted
Shinui in the coalition only because of his desire to effect
far-reaching changes, particularly in economics, and he was
well aware that the chareidi parties would not support these
moves.
The Jerusalem Municipality's Department of Chareidi Education
will operate a special enrollment center in addition to the
one at Safra Square, to allow parents of kindergartners to
enroll their children for the upcoming 5767 school year.
Designed to save parents time, the enrollment center will be
open this week from Sunday to Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00
p.m. at Beit Malka, Rechov Brandeis 2.
As part of the Bar Bei Rav De Chad Yomo worldwide program started and presided over by the Admor of Kaliv, Daf Yomi shiurim for commuters were begun two years ago. HaRav Chaim Binyomin Kirshenbaum delivers a regular Daf Yomi shiur on Line 402 between Yerushalayim and Bnei Brak. The program has received blessings from HaRav Shteinman and HaRav Kanievsky.
Degel HaTorah representatives in Beit Shemesh held reception hours at several locations in Beit Shemesh's chareidi neighborhoods to assist avreichim submitting requests for property tax (arnona) discounts.
Egged has introduced a series of innovations and improvements designed to serve Jerusalem's chareidi residents.
Not with Physical Might — But with My Spirit
In the streets of Beirut, Damascus, Islamabad and elsewhere, as chanting mobs torched Danish and other Western offices, including embassies of other European countries and representative offices of the European Commission, we think that we heard a clash of civilizations. On the Ways of the Holy Ones: Remembering the
Holocaust Part I Last year marked sixty years since the Holocaust. The liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in which one and a half million people, the majority of them Jews, were brutally put to death is now marked in many places as a day of remembering the entire Holocaust. Rallies and memorial services are held yearly on the premises themselves, and in many places throughout the world.
Return Serializing a new novel. Chapter 13: Mir Yeshiva (April 2001) Dean-Daniel has been accepted by Rav Dov into the Mir Yeshiva if he agrees to learn with a young man who needs a supportive chavrusa. He has made remarkable progress while living with Rav Dov's brother-in-law who suffered a stroke.
LIFE JOURNEYS Nechama had always been a dreamer. She used to sit in the back of the class staring out the window at the branches of the trees arching towards the sky. Due to her frequent daydreaming, she had a hard time following her schoolwork. Nevertheless, she brought home average grades, and she was blessed with parents who never pushed her to snap out of her reveries. More Home & Family . . .
Protecting Sifrei Torah from Theft Ari's Odyssey
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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