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Education Ministry Allows Students at Government Schools to Pray
Any student attending a government school who elects to pray will be allowed to do so in the future, Education Ministry official Mr. Shmuel Gross told a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee convened to discuss the issue.
Jewish Agency Chairman Zev Bielsky and Welfare Minister Yitzhak Herzog, who is in charge of Diaspora Affairs, presented the Antisemitism Report for 2007 at this week's cabinet meeting.
"During the course of renovation work at Har Hazeisim, which the Sephardic chevra kadisha, with state funding, has been working on for a long time, recently a large burial plot, which includes a number of well-known rabbonim, has been uncovered," Religious Services Minister MK Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) told a Knesset plenum in response to an urgent question raised by MK Nissim Ze'ev. "The plot was covered over by infrastructure work during the period of Jordanian rule in [East] Jerusalem."
A throng of local rabbonim and activists accompanied HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlita when he paid a visit to the site of the kosher power plant to be built outside of the city. During the gathering HaRav Kanievsky blessed those involved in the task, adding, "May the Council Head have the merit to quickly complete the construction of the power plant for [the production of] electricity without any concerns of chilul Shabbos." The initiative is being carried out with the encouragement and guidance of gedolei Yisroel and led by Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita.
Jealousy Masquerading as Piety by Yochonon Dovid
"Believe it or not," said Mr. Markoval in a loud voice to the group of people standing around him, "but people today are driven by a mad desire for luxuries. Take, for example, my neighbor. Thirteen years ago, we both bought identical cars. My car still serves me admirably but he has already exchanged his three times for the latest model at the time. Do you see what I'm driving at? If he were some businessman or high powered salesman, I could understand. But he is no more than a petty clerk in some public institution. And not long ago, he retired. I earn more in a month than his pension brings in for a year. I just can't comprehend it!"
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