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The next scheduled issue is that of Parshas Noach. Gmar Chasimah Tovoh and Chag Someiach!
MK Gafni: Education Ministry and Court `Declaring War' on Torah-Based Education
Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni fired a stiff attack against the Education Ministry and the court, which have been closing ranks to thwart the success of the Torah-based education system, making every effort to undermine Torah-true educational frameworks.
Efforts to Save Jaffa Cemetery Continue
A rally was held Wednesday to pray, protest and express grief over the evil decree to raze the ancient Jewish cemetery in Jaffa. Gedolei Torah, admorim and rabbonim stood opposite the site, invoking the words of Selichos — "Aseh lema'an shochnei offor" — in impassioned calls against plans by the project heads and government authorities to continue harming Jewish graves at an additional site in the cemetery.
Opponents of halachic conversion "cannot strike fear in the hearts of rabbonim and dayonim, who will continue to perform conversions only in accordance with halacha as handed down to us from Mt. Sinai," said MK Rabbi Uri Maklev this week in a meeting of the Knesset's State Control Committee on the issue of conversion in the IDF.
The Yad Shmuel Beis Din for Arbitration, headed by HaRav Mordechai Gross, the av beis din of the Chanichei Hayeshivos Center in Bnei Brak, was set up with the blessings of HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita.
At a modest and emotionally charged ceremony, Eitz Hadaas opened the Center for the Advancement of Talmud Torah Students in Jerusalem to meet the need to bring together under a single roof student avenues for growth and thriving, and to see to all the essential needs of students.
On the eve of 5771, a year of Ma'aser Oni, dozens of kashrus supervisors gathered for a two-day seminar hosted by HaRav Yosef Efrati's Kashrus Lemehadrin, to examine kashrus issues surrounding mitzvas tied to Eretz Yisroel and to prepare for the Ma'aser Oni year.
Like Dung On the Face of the Earth
Rav of Shikun Agudas Yisroel, Bnei Brak
The following address was delivered at Jerusalem's Kikar Shabbos in 1995-5755 at a demonstration protesting the disgraceful treatment of Jewish graves in the Holy Land. HaRav Gestetner poignantly sums up the main points of the protest and the goals of the public demonstration. It was first published in Yated Ne'eman in the edition of Yom Kippur, 5756.
Let Us Rejoice And Be Happy With This Torah — Stories and Anecdotes Excerpted from Sorosecho Sha'ashu'oi
A Great Man's Prayers
Rav Dovid Zimmerman relates: "One Hoshanoh Rabba towards the end of our master's life, a childless avreich arrived at his succah. He and his wife had not had a child for almost twenty years. Our master was in a good mood and even though he usually avoided giving blessings — and would sometimes argue and bargain before agreeing to do so — the attitude he took towards them during Succos was different to that of the rest of the year.
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