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Chareidi World Braces for Battle Over Yeshiva Study Gedolei Yisroel are enlisting the help of chareidi activists and the public for a campaign to resist the renewed decree that seriously threatens to draft yeshiva students into the IDF.
"The goal and purpose of the Holy Torah is not to sit in the bookcase, but it must be toiled over and it is a living Torah. We have no life without the Torah! It's life not only for Torah scholars, but life for all of the Jewish people.
Based on instructions from gedolei Yisroel shlita, collective prayers continue to be said at yeshivas and other botei medrash for the recuperation of Rabbenu Yosef Sholom ben Chaya Mousha Eliashiv shlita. Although his health had improved somewhat, he is still listed in critical condition, and in the past few days his condition has taken a turn for the worse.
Since there is an installation of special Shabbos equipment for water pumps in apartment buildings, in which a person has no effect whatsoever through his or her opening and closing a faucet on turning on or off the pumps. It is a preferred arrangement with no chashash.
The populist wave of attempts to weaken Shabbos continued throughout the country. Boruch Hashem, despite the many attempts, there has been no success. In most cases the attempts are in violation of current laws and they ignore the basic right of the workers to a day of rest.
Hebrew-language daily Yated Ne'eman was the only chareidi media entity that succeeded in maintaining its position and stability in the volatile media industry during the past year, according to a T.G.I. survey. The results ranked the chareidi daily with an exposure rate of 41.6 percent in the chareidi community, much higher than all of the other chareidi media publications.
The small Jewish community in Greece is struggling to survive the financial shock waves rocking Greece. Under normal circumstances, it's not easy being a Jew there, where superstitions pervade and conspiracy theories and antisemitism link Jews to every misfortune in the world.
"Last month the Dutch Senate was supposed to hold the last and decisive meeting on the bill to ban shechitoh, and to hold a vote. But Marianne Thieme, a member of parliament from Party for the Animals, went on vacation. Since the main petitioner cannot take part, the discussion has been postponed until her return in May.
"The Arab vandals realize how important history is to the Jews, therefore they strike out against these sensitive sites," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, speaking before the Knesset Aliya and Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on the problem of grave desecration at Har Hazeisim, and increased security for Diaspora Jews visiting the ancient cemetery.
In Rosh Ha'ayin, a statue was put up in a religious neighborhood, and the rov of Rosh Ha'ayin, HaRav Azarya Basis, demanded that the sensitivities of the residents be respected and the statue be removed. The rov said that the installation of such a statue is against the Torah.
Three students at a Haifa high school who "dared" to offer tefillin to other students were suspended from school by the principal, who was apparently alarmed by any trace of religious observance.
The shiur of HaRav Berish Borenstein, the rov of
Biala, was in full swing in the presence of his great
and learned talmidim. In the corner, the rov's
young son was listening in to the shiur that was
apparently on a level way beyond his years.
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