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The Need for Halachic Supervision Over Stock Market
Investments
While investing used to be only for people in the know, today
many in the chareidi public — from simple Jews to men
of means — are investing money or have provident funds
(kupot gemel) or self-improvement funds (karnot
hishtalmut) their employers have opened for them.
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, mayors of chareidi cities and their
deputy mayors took part last week in Local Government Week,
which featured a series of meetings on issues related to the
chareidi public and chareidi education.
The High Court postponed for 45 days a decision on Sunday 17
Sivan regarding the future of Matityahu Mizrach the expansion
of Kiryat Sefer, deciding to uphold for now the interim order
not to allow residence in or building in the neighborhood.
According to a report in The Times of London, due to
funding shortages at World War II and Holocaust memorial
sites in Germany, an idea that has always been taboo was
raised: charging visitors' fees to cover the costs of tour
guides and maintenance.
An expert investigation shows that the fire that broke out on
the second day of Shavuos at Geneva's largest shul, Beit
Knesset Heichal Haness, was started by arsonists and not an
electrical short said a Swiss police spokesman.
The Jerusalem Municipality approved a sweeping plan last week
that would allow Ramat Shlomo residents to build additions to
their apartments. Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky, who worked to
promote the issue, referred to it as a revolutionary plan to
assist residents of Ramat Shlomo, the neighborhood with the
highest percentage of large families in the city, to expand
their homes with relative ease rather than requiring them to
engage in the complex bureaucratic process normally required
to receive permits for apartment additions.
Anti-Reform Demonstration in Rosh Ha'ayin In Rosh Ha'ayin chareidi residents demonstrated outside the
Lev Ha'ir Community Center against Reform activities in the
city.
The government has allocated NIS 103 million ($25 million) to
make preparations for the Shmittah year, including assistance
for farmers and shomrei Shevi'is, MK Yitzchak Cohen, a
minister without portfolio responsible for the religious
councils, reported at a meeting of the Knesset Finance
Subcommittee for the Shmittah Year. Hundreds of Principals Gather to Encourage Study and Exams
on Dinei Shevi'is As part of preparations for the Shmittah year a national
conference was held for heads of educational institutions and
Degel Yerushalayim workers from around the country at the
event halls of Beis Haknesses Hagodol in Bnei Brak. Degel HaTorah Helps Yeshiva Students Update Visas Degel HaTorah's Center for Public Service in Jerusalem has
begun a broad effort to help foreigners studying at yeshivas
in Eretz Yisroel to arrange their student visas in order to
prevent the delay of funds provided by the Education
Ministry's Yeshiva Department. The Chumash HaGra is now Complete
After years of effort, the final volumes of the Chumash HaGra
were finally released. Compiled by the well-known expert on
all aspects of the Vilna Gaon, HaRav Dov Eliach, the new five-
volume set seems destined to take its place as part of the
core Torah library of a Jewish home.
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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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