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MKs Urge Jerusalem Police to Cancel Abominable Event
Chareidi and religious MKs urged the police on Monday to
prohibit the awful event scheduled to take place in Jerusalem
next Friday in spite of unprecedented cross-party and
interfaith opposition.
Israel plans to expand its military offensive in the Gaza
Strip, to try to slow or stop the arms smuggling from Egypt.
It also wants to stop the slow but steady bombardment from
Kassam rockets from northern Gaza.
Agudath Israel of America's 84th National Convention is to be
held November 23-26 at a new location: The Sheraton Stamford
Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut. Well-known community askan
Dr. David Diamond will serve as the chairman.
While the Justice Ministry constantly undermines budget
funding for chareidi education based on claims that the
budgeting fails to meet various criteria of fairness, when it
comes to the secular education system, anything goes. The
Marker revealed that several paragraphs of the Education
Ministry budget were specially drafted to fit certain
organizations in such a way that other organizations would
not be able to benefit from the funding.
Residents of Modiin Illit recently donated NIS 30,000 in
medical equipment to equip an ambulance owned by the
neighboring Palestinian village of Naleen.
Eternal Jewish Family, headed by HaRav Reuven Feinstein, held
a three-day conference this week at the Hyatt Hotel in Boston
following the success of the conference held in Jerusalem in
Av.
Recently a number of complaints have raised concerns of
kashrus problems regarding airplane meals. The problem
has arisen in the case of code-sharing flights in which the
passenger reserves a flight on El Al but the flight is
actually executed by a foreign airline.
Suits imported from Turkey and sold in Eretz Yisroel during
the holidays might contain shatnez. Concerns were
raised after an avreich, who chose not to rely on the
spot checks conducted by the importer, sent his new suit for
testing and the shatnez lab reported it did indeed
contain shatnez.
The Modern World: A "Land Full of Chomos"?
Dr. William McGuire, the former head of the UnitedHealth
Group Inc., built up the company, which was near bankruptcy
when he took over, into the second largest insurer in the
United States. The stock price rose from two dollars when Dr.
McGuire took over to 60 dollars, though it has fallen back to
around 50 dollars. HaRav Shach: At the Helm of the Yeshivos Hakedoshos
I once asked Maran ztvk'l for his opinion regarding
accepting to yeshiva gedolah students who had
previously studied in schools that did not conform to the
accepted daas Torah norm. Perhaps such students had
true potential for becoming bnei Torah and it would do
them an injustice to deny them acceptance; perhaps they had
gone to such schools only because their parents had insisted
on it.
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