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MK Rabbi Ravitz Proposes Law to Limit High Court's
Power
The Knesset took a first step toward reining in the High
Court this week when the House Committee unanimously exempted
MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz from having to table a bill he
drafted that would forbid the High Court from annulling laws
legislated in the Knesset.
Agudas Yisroel of America is holding its seventh Yarchei
Kallah at the Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem this week.
On Monday night the Admor of Novominsk, Rosh of Agudas
Yisroel of America, delivered the opening shiur of the
five-day event.
With a majority of 57 MKs from the coalition, including Shas
MKs, against 21 MKs from the opposition and 14 abstentions
from the Arab parties and Meretz, a joint no-confidence
motion sponsored by UTJ and HaIchud HaLeumi-NRP over the
large-scale Shabbos desecration by Israel Railways and the
Israel Nature and Parks Authority was defeated last
Monday.
Following the increase in the number of fictitious
conversions performed around the world by rabbis who consider
themselves Orthodox, the Vaad Haolami LeInyonei Giyur founded
by HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth zt"l has decided to expand its
rabbinical board. In many cases conversion candidates do not
fully accept the yoke of mitzvas at the time of conversion,
making the conversion invalid even bedi'eved.
Shortly before PM Ehud Olmert's visit to China last week
local news agencies reported that the Chinese government
spent $385,000 to renovate the Jewish cemetery in Harbin,
capital of Heilongjiang Province in Manchuria, now part of
China.
The City of Jerusalem is set to launch Life Centers, a
project initiated by Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky to develop
special public spaces designed to serve various functions and
equipped with sophisticated equipment and safety features.
HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, local rabbonim and roshei
yeshivos were on hand at a gathering for hundreds of
avreichim and bnei Torah in Beitar Illit last
Thursday, 21 Teves, to strengthen standards of modesty. The
event followed a number of similar gatherings in other
locations in Eretz Yisroel.
Hidden Driving Instructor for Ambulance Drivers To maintain high standards of professionalism Ezra Lemarpeh
frequently sends its ambulance drivers to advanced emergency
care and driving courses.
"We stand in awe before the spiritual strength of the
survivors who, despite undergoing the horrors of the
Holocaust personally, went on to build lives full of the
splendor of keeping Torah and mitzvas," said HaRav Menachem
Stein, a ram at Yeshivas Nachalas Dovid in Petach
Tikva during a fascinating lecture during a conference at the
Center for the Elderly on Rechov Achiya Hashiloni in Bnei
Brak.
Hundreds Take Part in Annual Agudas Yisroel Conference in
Florida Hundreds of Agudas Yisroel members took part in the annual
conference in Florida, which was headed by gedolei
Torah and roshei yeshivos and addressed practical issues
in halochoh. Pampers Ends Fourth Annual Fundraising Campaign The Pampers Chessed campaign, held for the fourth consecutive
year, ended recently with unprecedented success. Chasdei
Naomi volunteers were happy to see that the public responded
positively to requests to take part in the campaign, sending
thousands of proofs of purchase of Pampers diapers to Chasdei
Naomi offices and collection booths.
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