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Vaad HaRabbonim LeInyonei Giyur: The Chief Rabbinate
Should Dissociate Itself from Conversion Authority Muli Jesselson was recently selected to serve as director of the Chief Rabbinate's conversion administration in place of Moshe Klein, who was forced to resign for technical reasons after his predecessor, Rabbi Chaim Druckman, was forced into early retirement.
UTJ signed a coalition agreement with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat that includes a pledge to uphold the religious status quo and the city's Jewish character, and to form a partnership in running the city and seeing to the needs of all its residents, including the educational and religious needs of Jerusalem's chareidi sector. The move and the subsequent decisions were made after consulting with gedolei Yisroel shlita.
Rabbenu HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita recently related his opinion and pain regarding the inadequate degree of modesty many of today's shaitels afford, saying ladies who wear such wigs fall below the obligation referred to by Chazal as "Das Yehudis." He also noted that many of today's shaitels do not look like wigs at all, in which case they are certainly forbidden to wear.
State Comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss released a piercing report this week revealing the system-wide failure in managing the gravesite of R' Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron.
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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