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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).
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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