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Efforts to Persuade Bus Companies to Provide Mehadrin
Service
Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tachburoh, under the guidance of
gedolei Yisroel, held a long, exhaustive meeting that
ended with a decision to embark on a series of steps designed
to pressure and persuade public transportation companies to
allow mehadrin lines.
On Tuesday evening the first day of Chanukah the Jerusalem
Municipality's Torah Culture Department launched the second
annual Torah Culture Week in Jerusalem. After candlelighting
on the first night of Chanukah, the first event got underway,
kicking off a week of events for women, high school girls and
younger girls. Every evening a Torah event for men only will
be held as well.
The first real test of relations between the French
leadership under President Nikolas Sarkozy and the Jewish
community is beginning to raise its head. The Consistoire,
the central organization of the French Jewish community,
contacted the High Authority to Fight Discrimination and
Promote Equality (HALDE) to protest requirements for Jewish
students to take exams on Shabbos and Shavuos.
A new book by three South Africans who emigrated to Australia
surveys the unique history of these Jews, whose forefathers
arrived on the African continent just 100 years ago and have
already found themselves immigrants once again. The book,
entitled Two Worlds: The Second Emigration of South
African Jews, notes that during the period of political
instability in the country in the mid-1980s emigration was
very common among young adults.
by A. Lederman
Light is one of the more difficult phenomena to explain and
describe. What the zeidim consider light and refer to
as "enlightened," we call folly and darkness. Light and dark
are separated by a very thin line; they may appear in
combination and to flesh and blood darkness can appear like
light.
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