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No Army Service! No Submission to Enticements! No Cooperation!

A massive prayer gathering is planned for Sunday 30 Adar I (March 2). Joining will be the entire chareidi world, including the yeshiva and chassidic communities, as well as the Eida Chareidis. The Mizrachi yeshivas all also joining, including Mercaz HaRav and Har HaMor, as well as prominent rabbonim. The gathering will declare that Torah is eternal, and it is planned as pure prayer to confront the awful chillul Hashem of the Israeli government with a massive kiddush Hashem.

Message of the Rosh Hayeshiva

It is common knowledge that the [three] cardinal commandments of the Torah require us to lay down our lives for them, while the other commandments do not necessitate sacrificing our lives for them. One of the three is idolatry; if one is coerced to transgress this prohibition, he must be ready to die and not submit.

Decisions of the Broad Moetzes Gedolei veChachmei HaTorah

This is no time to be silent, when figures in the government in the State of Israel, under the direction of the Prime Minister, have reared up to defy the Heavenly Kingdom with the intention of uprooting Torah G-d forbid by imposing a criminal sanction upon those who pursue Torah study exclusively to the point of casting them in prison.

Shechita Ban in Denmark

The storm around the prohibition of shechitah in Denmark has also reached the Arab world which has a considerable representation in this country. The Arab world has raised an outcry against the ban of slaughter of meat without first shocking the animal, which is forbidden to Arabs in their hallal procedure. Leaders of the Arab community there have declared that they will defy the law.

Rain and Kinneret Watch

Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret.


The Rov of Yerushalayim HaRav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, zt"l
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 19 Adar, 5692 (1932)

His cherished acquisition - the privilege of living in Eretz Yisroel - was gained by Reb Yosef Chaim with great travail in true fulfillment of the mishna in Ovos: "Eretz Yisroel nikneis beyissurim."

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The Beggar's Costume

by Sara Gutfreund

She walks in without knocking. I am standing by the counter, wrapping the last of the shalach monos. Her steely blue eyes peek out from beneath her tattered gray kerchief. I am frightened and the slender pieces of pink ribbon fall silently from my grasp. She sits at the kitchen table and pushes aside Shira's soggy bowl of cornflakes. She asks for food. I hesitate between the refrigerator and calling the police. Who is this woman? But in that subtle moment of indecision, I catch a glimpse of her smile and I sense something familiar about her. She looks like someone I know.




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