Deiah veDibur - Information & 
Insight
  

A Window into the Chareidi World

29 Kislev 5773 - December 13, 2012 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
NEWS
OPINION & COMMENT
OBSERVATIONS
HOME & FAMILY
IN-DEPTH FEATURES
VAAD HORABBONIM HAOLAMI LEINYONEI GIYUR
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
POPULAR EDITORIALS
PREVIOUS ISSUES

This Google Custom Search looks only in this website.

Rabbonim Reject Government Attempts to Tempt Yeshiva Students to Join the Army

Rabbonim reacted very strongly against the Government moves on Sunday to extend a program of national service for chareidim. Gedolei Yisroel rejected the repeated attempts to seduce yeshiva students to leave their yeshivas and said that it was part of a longstanding focused attempt to undermine the yeshiva world and to weaken the values held dear by Jewry whose members dedicate their lives to Torah study as yeshiva students and kollel avreichim.

Meeting at the Home of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky about Personal Ramim

A special meeting at the home of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky featured the attendance of prominent roshei yeshiva and marbitzei Torah to encourage the efforts of the Betzavta organization that arranges for private mentors and tutors for yeshiva students.

Mishmeret Shabbos Announces Fix for Digital Refrigerators

The Mishmeret Shabbos announced that it has produced a special instrument called Glatt Shabbos that can even be fitted to a refrigerator or freezer that one has already bought, and it solves the Shabbos problems involved with the new digitally-controlled appliances that are sensitive to even to small changes in temperature that can be caused by a single opening of the door.

Lavie Ltd Will Build Major Commercial Development in Modi'in Illit

In between the neighborhoods Neot Hapisgah, Kiryat Sefer and Brachfeld, on a lot of 14 dunams (3.5 acres) a new commercial center is rising. The complex will include a bus terminal and 500 parking spaces, as well as commercial and office space. A total of about 26,000 square meters (260,000 square feet) will be built. The estimated time of completion is in 2015.

HaRav Mendel Weinbach zt"l

A large crowd, headed by roshei yeshiva and gedolei Torah, gathered in Mattersdorf and in the beis medrash of Ohr Somayach yeshiva in Jerusalem to accompany HaRav Mendel Weinbach zt"l on his final journey. An unusual talmid chochom and marbitz Torah for decades, HaRav Weinbach was one of the founders of the Ohr Somayach yeshiva, as well as other Torah initiatives including the Mercaz Bais Yaakov in Jerusalem. His clear shiurim and deep shmuessim were well known and drew many listeners. Thousands of talmidim passed through the Ohr Somayach yeshiva over the years and spread out all over the globe.


The Admor of Radzin, Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner, zt"l
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 4 Teves

As a son of the first Admor of Radzin R' Yaakov, HaRav Gershon Henoch made sure to follow in his father's ways.

From Our Archives


Opinion and Comment
Challenges of the Modern World: "They Got Their Hands on our Wealth"

by Mordecai Plaut

Reading the business pages of the secular press lately can be quite depressing. Japan is in an economic slump that has lasted more than a decade and cannot shake itself out of it. The worldwide telecommunications industry is in a huge slide downhill: the second largest communications company in the US, Worldcomm, is bankrupt. Lucent, a huge company that was steady as a rock for three generations has gone from more than 150,000 employees just two years ago to a planned 35,000 within the next three months -- and it is typical of many.

Opinion and Comment

Escape On Chanukah


by Rabbi M. D. Weinstock

Rabbi Gamliel was greatly beloved in his place of birth, the town of Sz. in Hungary. He had brought up hundreds of pupils with great selflessness. He prepared the children for the yeshiva; he was the melamed of the twelve- to thirteen- year-old boys.

...

...Nobody was happier than Rabbi Gamliel. He quickly took from his rucksack the silver menorah and the Chanukah candles, and made his preparations to light the first flame with the shehecheyonu blessing.

"What are doing, Rabbi Gamliel?" his companions asked him in amazement. "You will attract the attention of the Russian patrol and then all will be lost."


CHANUKAH



by R' Paysach Freedman

Based on an address by Rav Zev Leff, Aish HaTorah, 28 Kislev 5761



The Attack

A man is walking peacefully down the street. Out of nowhere, someone appears, wielding an iron bar. He swings it mightily at the man's legs. Both of his knees are shattered immediately. The injured man collapses to the ground, writhing in pain and the attacker stands over him. As the victim prepares for a final blow, the attacker smiles politely at him.




POPULAR EDITORIALS

Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)

May-July, 2005


EARLIER EDITORIALS

The Message of an Earthquake

A Mission to Spread Daas Torah

Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit

C an I - Should I?

The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants

More Editorials . . .


Click here for conditions of use.