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First Chareidi Psychiatric Hospital Under Construction
With maranan verabbonon on hand along with rabbonim and Deputy Health Minister MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, other top ministry officials, ministers, MKs, heads of cities and public figures, a cornerstone-laying event for a new hospital to be built at the former site of the City of Bnei Brak warehouses.
MK Moshe Gafni: Housing Crisis is Acute and Could Lead to Coalition Crisis
"The issue of housing has become critical and could even lead to a coalition crisis," said Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni on Tuesday, during boisterous committee meeting on the Ministry of Housing and Construction's budget for 2011 and 2012.
The 88th Agudath Israel of America Convention ended on Sunday in New Jersey, with calls to strengthen Torah-true education wherever it is found, in order to guarantee the future.
A report by demographer Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that for the first time in 30 years the world Jewish population has grown. It should be noted that the definition of "Jew" used by Professor Della Pergola is a sociological one and not a halachic one. According to the report, in 2010 the number of Jews rose by more than 80,000 to a worldwide total of 13.428 million, of which 82 percent live in Israel and the US.
"The Knesset has no halachic or moral authority to decide on halachic matters," a spokesman for the Vaad HaRabbonim LeInyonei Giyur said in response to a decision by the Ministerial Committee for Legislative Matters that the conversions performed by the IDF over the years are valid, even though most of the "converts" are non-Jews and did not keep a single Shabbos.
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