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Rabbonim and Dayonim Decry IDF `Conversions'
By Yechiel Sever
Rabbonim and dayanim are speaking out strongly against an attempt to undermine the authority of city rabbis through a proposal by the State Attorney's Office to appoint four "lenient" rabbis as marriage registrars to rubber-stamp IDF conversions. The proposal follows a petition filed against prominent municipal rabbis who refused to recognize army "conversions."
Yad Mordechai: From a Tattered Shul to 20 Torah Institutions
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris
The late HaRav Chaim Yaakov Rottenberg appears in an old photo taken at a ceremony in which he assumed the post of rov of the Association of Chareidi Kehillos in Paris. A group of well-heeled baalei battim, mostly under the leadership of Rav Dovid Yisroel Gertner and Rav Weiss, brought HaRav Rottenberg over from Antwerp in 5725 (1965) to serve as the rov and av beis din of the chareidi kehillos at the shul on Rue Pave.
Over 40% of Diaspora Jews Married to Non-Jews
By Eliezer Rauchberger
More than 40 percent of Diaspora Jews — 55% in the US — are married to non-Jews and assimilate, compared to 5% in Israel, according to a report submitted to the Knesset Immigrant Absorption Committee this week.
Government Approves Aliya of 8,000 Falashmura
By G. Lazer
The current government unanimously approved a decision to shut down the temporary immigrants' camp in Gondar, Ethiopia and to bring to Israel most of the 8,000 Falashmura waiting at a transit camp.
17 Charged in Huge Holocaust Reparations Fraud
By R. Hoffner
Seventeen New York residents have been charged in Federal Court of fraudulently collecting more than $42 million between 2000 and 2009 from two German-government funds designated for Holocaust survivors provided.
CIA Arranged Safe Haven for Nazi Fugitives
By R. Hoffner
The New York Times has revealed that after World War II the CIA provided safe havens for dozens of fleeing Nazi criminals — though authorities were aware of their past deeds — in exchange for valuable intelligence information on the Nazi regime that helped the Americans in the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
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