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NEWS
Hundreds Participate in Arachim's Lecturer Training Courses in Jerusalem and Modiin Ilit
The Lecturer Training Courses sponsored by Arachim in both Jerusalem and Modi'in Ilit scored a great success, being attended by hundreds of rabbonim, educators and Kiruv workers who expressed their thanks to the organization which arranged them. The courses, it was unanimously agreed, provided their participants with excellent tools for enhancing public speaking and influencing others.
The Census Bureau of the Ministry of Interior has released statistics accurate to the beginning of this summer indicating that the number of residents in Bnei Brak has grown by 4814, and stands now at 173,743 citizens, as compared with 168,929 a year ago.
The district court in Haifa dismissed the offensive petitions against the general building plan for the Charish housing construction development, thus allowing the project for a chareidi city to forge ahead and help solve the pressing need for additional housing for the chareidi public. The next day, the National Planning Commission rejected all the objections to the plan, removing all obstacles to moving ahead.
"Anyone with eyes in his head knows that you can't tamper with full-time Torah scholars. In the end, there won't be any change in legislation and at worst, yeshiva students will sit in jail."
The predicted victory of the leftist candidate, Francois Hollande, in the upcoming French presidential elections, is serious cause for consternation in the Jewish community which fears that this will introduce elements hostile to Jewry. A week before the second round of the elections, the two sides, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande, brand one another with labels such as `Communist' and `Nazi'. They are both aggressively contesting for the six million votes which Le Pen garnered.
Some hundred community rabbonim, heads of kollelim, chief rabbis of cities, moshavim and neighborhoods participated in a protest gathering in response to the dastardly acts perpetrated by hoodlums employed by the religious council forcibly imposed upon the city by the Ministry for Religious services. Vehement protests were voiced and a mass enlistment of encouragement was registered by all the district rabbis from near and far in support of the rabbonim of Hadera who were attacked, brutally manhandled and aggressively abused by these hired ruffians.
Members of the joint committee of Degel HaTorah and Agudath Israel in Jerusalem are laying the groundwork for the upcoming major event of the 12th cycle of the Daf Hayomi Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem which will take place on Tuesday, the 12th of Av, headed by maranan verabbonon, leaders of Torah and Chassidus. This is to take place a day later than the large siyum in Petach Tikvah, as we reported last week.
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