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Statistical Study Shatters Libel Of Drawn Out Proceedings
At Rabbinical Courts
The distorted claims of National-Religious (modern-orthodox)
women's groups that have joined Reform circles to wage a
joint campaign against the Rabbinical botei din and
the dayanim who act in accordance with halochoh,...
A high-ranking Justice Ministry official, the Reform Movement
and Ha'aretz have joined forces to wage an
unprecedented battle against chareidi Jewry, trying to bring
its institutions to the point of collapse by cutting off or
reducing budget funding based on "professional
considerations."
The heads of Agudas Yisroel of America, Executive Vice
President Rabbi Shmuel Bloom and Treasurer Rabbi Shlomo
Gertzulin, made an extensive round of visits to moshavim in
Eretz Yisroel to observe firsthand the preparations
being made for the coming shmittah year by Keren
Hasheviis, which is run by the National Center for Shomrei
Shevi'is Farmers.
At the end of a boisterous debate the Knesset plenum rejected
a bill by MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz that would have required
that members of the chareidi sector be represented on the
boards of directors of government corporations, ministries
and other public and semi-public units, in addition to the
Knesset, the President's Office and the State Comptroller's
Office.
A plan to build a string of 16-18-story high-rise buildings
in Petach Tikva is threatening to form a choke ring around
the city's chareidi neighborhoods. The plot had been promised
for years as a land reserve to expand the chareidi
neighborhoods. The new plan includes a swimming pool and
tennis court that would completely alter the character of the
neighborhood.
A survey conducted by immigrant organization Maalah shows
that 35 percent of immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet
Union do not perceive themselves as Israelis and 45 percent
of high school students do not believe they have a future in
Israel.
Rebbetzin Esther Ungarisher o"h, the wife of HaRav Don
Ungarisher, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Beis Medrash Elyon in
Spring Valley, in Monsey, passed away in New York. Rebbetzin
Ungarisher was the daughter of HaRav Reuven Grozovsky
zt"l and the granddaughter of HaRav Boruch Ber
Leibowitz, author of Bircas Shmuel and rosh yeshiva of
Yeshivas Kamenitz.
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According to the Ramo (494:3) we do not say tachanun
from Rosh Chodesh Sivan until after Isru Chag (there
are other minhogim that do not say tachanun
until after the seven days of hashlomoh that follow
Shavuos).
On Rosh Chodesh Sivan we do not say tachanun like on
every Rosh Chodesh. The second of Sivan is called Yom
HaMeyuchas since after yetzias Mitzrayim Hashem
commanded Moshe to say to bnei Yisroel: "Now therefore
if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then
you shall be My own treasure from among all peoples"
(Shemos 19:5) to prepare them for Torah. Afterwards,
the third, forth, and fifth of Sivan are the Sheloshes
Yemei Hagboloh when bnei Yisroel waited for
kabolas HaTorah (Mishnah Berurah 494:8, and see
Shabbos 86-88).
We do not say vetzidkoscho tzedek on Shabbos since it
is the YOm MaMeyuchas
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