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BBC Tried to Conceal Murder of Jews in Mumbai Attack
Western reporters refuse to refer to the mass murderers who
attacked the Chabad House and hotels in Mumbai as killers and
avoided using the word "terrorists," instead describing them
as "activists" or "Islamic militants." In the Wall Street
Journal Tom Gross wrote about the destructive role the
world media has played in the war against terror.
Gedolei Yisroel shlita voiced their staunch opposition
to Merkaz Rabbanei Eretz Yisroel, noting it poses a dire
threat to the conceptual and halachic independence of
rabbonim in Israel and could herald a takeover attempt that
would foist certain opinions on all rabbonim and the entire
public in Israel.
Following the shocking death of Moshe Yaish Nahari
Hy'd in Riydah, Yemen, who was killed by a Muslim
gunman last week, heads of the Jewish community say the
national authorities are indifferent to the frequent threats
against them by Muslim extremists.
Members of the special beis din on halachic shavers
held meetings at the homes of gedolei Yisroel,
including Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita, where they
expressed their dismay that some men still use forbidden
shavers which gedolei haposkim hold are a
transgression of Torah law, despite the fact two kosher
shavers are currently sold on the market.
The site believed to contain the graves of Mordechai Hayehudi
and Esther Hamalkoh in the city of Hamadan, known in
Megillas Esther as "Shushan Habiroh," has been
declared a national heritage site by Iran, which protects and
maintains the site.
The Jerusalem Magistrate Court ruled Peace Now and two of its
activists, Hagit Ofran and Dror Etkes, must apologize to the
settlers they degraded and provide them monetary
compensation.
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the Tiv Taam branch in
Ramat Hachayal, a suburb of Tel Aviv, does not have to close
on Shabbos and does not have to stop selling chazir
despite municipal ordinances. by HaRav Nosson Meir Wachtfogel
Part I
"Speak to Aharon and say to him: `When you kindle the lamps,
toward the face of the menorah shall the seven lamps
give their light'" (Bamidbar 8:2).
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