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Rosh Yeshivos at Jaffa Grave Desecration Demonstrations
Hundreds of avreichim from around the country gathered Sunday afternoon near the excavation site at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Jaffa to pray and protest against the shameful, unfeeling grave desecration taking place, despite firm demands by Torah-true Jewry and a piercing letter by gedolei Yisroel shlita calling for an immediate halt to construction work.
Prime Minister Yields to Reform and Conservative Pressure on Conversion Law
At the start of this week's cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced his objection to the Israel Beiteinu-sponsored Conversion Law, bowing to heavy pressure the Reform and Conservation movements are placing on him to take it off the agenda.
Ashdod's chareidi areas are the most crowded parts of the city, according to the statistical yearbook presented last week to Ashdod's city council members.
United Torah Judaism sent a firm demand to the Prime Minister to take off the agenda of last Sunday's cabinet meeting a legislative proposal submitted by the Education Minister that would require all educational institutions in the country, including recognized but unofficial institutions, exempt institutions, unique cultural institutions (i.e. yeshivos ketanos), etc. to administer the new RAMA exams.
Members of the small Jewish community remaining in Egypt, numbering in the dozens, are protesting a court decision that found Jewish community president Carmen Weinstein guilty of defrauding an Egyptian businessman in the sale of a property held by the kehilloh (Beit Knesset Bar Yochai, which stood abandoned in Cairo's Jewish quarter) and was given a suspended three-year prison sentence and fined some $8,000 for "damaging public property."
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