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NEWS
Special Gathering to Strengthen Gimmel - Yahadus HaTorah
The top roshei yeshivos of Eretz Yisroel assembled early this week at the home of HaRav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi, rosh yeshivas Ateres Yisroel, in support of the UTJ (United Torah Judaism - Yahadus Hatorah) party in the upcoming municipal elections. The gathering was called and strongly supported by Maran the Rosh Yeshiva HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman and HaRav Chaim Kanievsky.
Minister of Education Piron Cuts of Funding for Foreign Yeshiva Students
At the direction of Treasury Minister Lapid, Minister of Education Piron cancelled the entire budget that helped fund the study of foreign yeshiva students. For the remaining months of 2013 the support will be reduced by 30 percent, and it will stop entirely in 2014. No cuts were made in programs for foreign students in any other institution besides yeshivas.
HaRav Avraham Harrari-Raful zt"l
Thousands led by roshei yeshiva, rabbonim, dayanim and bnei Torah accompanied HaRav Avraham Harrari-Raful zt"l on his final journey after he was niftar on Tuesday of Chol Hamoed Succos in his eighty-third year. HaRav Harrari-Raful was rov of the Aleppo community Ketter Torah in New York and one of the greatest marbitzei Torah in America.
In the great world of prewar Chassidus, the young rebbe, Reb Klonimus Kalmish was different. Never had there been a Rebbe who devoted himself entirely to the leadership of the bochurim and younger chassidim. When he was asked on numerous occasions why he went to such extreme lengths to save a bochur from being conscripted to the army, he would retort, "A rebbe who is not prepared to go to Gehennom to save his young chossid is no rebbe."
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