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NEWS
A Kiddush Hashem in the Dignified Outcry at the Kosel on Rosh Chodesh
Contrary to sensational reports in the US press which highlighted the fact that a few marginal ruffians misbehaved, the early morning Rosh Chodesh Av prayers this past Monday were a Kiddush Hashem dominated by thousands of chareidi women and girls who gathered at the Kosel, per directive of our gedolei Yisroel, headed by HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, for the Rosh Chodesh shacharis service as well as to express a protest against the desecration of the holy remnant of our Beis Hamikdash. It served as a passive, dignified protest against those heretical women who come to this sanctified site each Rosh Chodesh in order to undermine the holiness of the place and to transgress universal prohibitions and customs.
World Jewry Shaken by the Bill to Imprison Torah Students
Throughout the entire world, a stormy and horrified reaction is being voiced at the passing of the new Israeli government law which, in the main, is geared to impose sanctions of criminal punishment to the drastic point of imprisonment of Torah students and kollel avreichim who ask only to be permitted to pursue their study and will refuse to be mobilized either to the army or to civil service in any form.
The Main Criminal and Economic Sanctions on Yeshiva Students
According to the forecast, approved two months ago in the Knesset committee headed by Science Minister Yaakov Peri, beginning four years hence, in 2017, yeshiva students will be obligated to enlist in the army or for civil service at the age of 21, excluding 1800 students from each civil year falling under the category of the elite scholars [masmidim] who will be permitted to continue their studies. The committee suggested that the bill include imposing criminal sanctions upon yeshiva students and kollel avreichim who continue to pursue their studies, per the approval of the Defense Minister.
Anyone who has heard of the Chuster Rov, has certainly heard of his great hasmodoh. Nothing would distract him from his learning. Even matters of great importance had to wait until Rabbenu closed his sefer.
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