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Rebbetzin Basha Scheinberg o"h
Gedolei Torah, roshei yeshivos, rabbonim, dayonim and innumerable Yeshivas Torah Ohr alumni took part in the levaya last week for Rebbetzin Basha Scheinberg o"h, the wife of HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg ylct"a, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Torah Ohr, who devoted her entire life to fostering her husband's harbotzas Torah until her petiroh at the age of 96.
Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita has added his holy signature to a psak din against receiving any funding assistance from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews or any affiliated charities, and has told individuals not to derive benefit from the organization since doing so constitutes chilul Hashem and avizraihu de'avodoh zorah (appurtenances of idolatry).
Close to 400 yeshiva administrators and accountants participated in a conference Tuesday focused on important issues relating to federal taxation laws. The conference, organized by Agudath Israel of America, was the latest in a series of major gatherings for administrators of religious and charitable organizations in the Orthodox Jewish community, and was designed to promote greater awareness of, and compliance with, secular law.
The Knesset held a heated debate last week when MK Yisrael Hasson (Kadima) and MK Moshe Matlon (Yisrael Beiteinu) tried to raise a bill that would harm the status quo on the issue of drafting girls into the army.
In preparation for the Education Conference scheduled to take place 23-25 Cheshvan at Nir Etzion, the rabbonim on the steering committee met with Maran HaRav Eliashiv this week to seek his guidance and blessings. Conference participants will include roshei yeshivos, mashgichim, ramim, principals and educational supervisors from all parts of Eretz Yisroel, led by maranan verabonon gedolei Yisroel shlita.
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