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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

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Sharp Rise in Fictitious Conversions
By Yechiel Sever

The Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry's Conversion Administration performed 6,200 "conversions" last year, deliberately driving up the number by tens of percentage points, according to recently published data.

135,616 Yeshiva and Kollel Students in Eretz Yisroel
By Yechiel Sever

Some 135,600 bnei Torah are registered in a total of 2,000 yeshivas and kollelim throughout Eretz Yisroel, according to data compiled by Yated Ne'eman and published on Erev Shavuos.


MK Rabbi Gafni: 'High Court Blatantly Targeting the Chareidi Education System'
By Yechiel Sever

Torah-true Jewry in Eretz Yisroel and abroad is irate over the High Court's stance toward the chareidi community and the insult to its rabbonim through a series of efforts to interfere with the chareidi education system, notably in the case of the Bais Yaakov school in Emanuel in recent weeks.


Dozens of Graves Excavated in Jaffa
By Yechiel Sever

Archaeologists are racing to dig up dozens of gravesites at a Jewish cemetery in Jaffa to make room for a real estate venture.


HaRav Yehoshua Brisk zt"l
By A. Cohen

A large crowd headed by admorim and rabbonim was on hand Erev Parshas Nosso to lay to rest HaRav Yehoshua Brisk zt"l, the av beis din of Tsheka in Netanya, who passed away Friday morning. His petiroh left the city of Netanya bereft of a marbitz Torah who was closely involved in building up the Torah world and influencing the city's spiritual growth and development.


Rebbetzin Leah Auerbach o"h
By Yechiel Sever

Thousands of mourners from Jerusalem and elsewhere joined Bayit Vegan residents and gedolei Torah, including Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita, at the levaya for Rebbetzin Leah Auerbach o"h, the daughter of Maran ylct"a and the wife of HaRav Ezriel Auerbach, the rov of Kehillas Chanichei Hayeshivos in Bayit Vegan and one of the leading morei horo'oh of our generation.



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