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Modi'in Illit Laying Groundwork for Kosher Power
Station
Intense work has been underway for months at the future site
of the kosher power plant in Modi'in Illit. Upon completion,
the entire city will be connected to a power plant free of
all concerns of chilul Shabbos, making it the first
city ever powered entirely by electricity in accordance with
the rulings of the Chazon Ish zt"l.
Hundreds of mispallelim at the main botei
knesses in Jerusalem's Neveh Yaakov neighborhood were
stunned upon learning that demolition orders had been issued
for two major botei knesses in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile construction has been halted on a mikveh in
Ramat Beit Hakerem.
The Jerusalem Municipality's legal advisor, Atty. Yossi
Chavilio, is threatening for the first time to impose budget
sanctions on the city's chareidi education system.
In an urgent letter to Attorney General Mani Mazuz, Atty.
David Glass, representing the Union of Yeshiva Managers,
stated objections to a decision not to approve the funding of
20 yeshivos ketanos that opened in 5768.
Antisemitism is escalating in eastern Germany. In two
separate incidents Jewish cemeteries were desecrated in a
single night last week. At the entrance to the Jewish
cemetery in Gotha, anonymous vandals hung a bloody pig head
alongside a sign reading, "Six million lies." Inside the
cemetery police found several containers of red paint and
shattered bottles.
by Rabbi Avi Shafran
From the agitation and anger of the crowds, the din of the
car horns and the shouts of "Civil rights now!" and "Bigots!"
one would have been forgiven for thinking that the protesters
were denouncing some horrific assault on human freedom.
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