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Most Farmers Will Not Receive Government Support During Shmittah

Despite the report last week that the government allocated about one hundred million shekels for the upcoming shmittah year, it has become apparent that most produce growers in Israel will receive no support from the government as an incentive for keeping this mitzvah.

MK Rabbi Yaakov Asher Introduces No Confidence Motion for UTJ

"I am holding in my hand an unprecedented large sheaf of bills whose prime goal at the end of the day is to undermine Judaism in this State. The majority of these bills were passed mindlessly, not because the Likud suddenly decided that it is not the collective voice [Likud] of the people, the collective voice of preservers of tradition, the joint body of the public sector whose members have not forgotten their grandfather, even though they, personally, are not Torah observant. This government is altering time-worn traditions because this Likud is not acting like the party in power. They buy their coalitionary quiet via laws which undermine and attack every rabbinical institution and which negate everything that smacks of religion and halochoh."

Financial Aspects of Publishing Books for the Religious Market in Israel

A sight to behold! Bookworms will never be sated from gazing upon a pile of newly published books still smelling of fresh newsprint, displayed on a book stall. All they want is to leaf through, make their choice, and pay. Prices of books for leisure reading vary from 30-40 shekel (about $10) but can also climb up to 70 ($20), depending on the book, author, bookshop. Dozens of new books pop up on the shelves before every yom tov. Multiply the number by hundreds and perhaps thousands of copies for each book and you'll discover a market that turns over many millions. Are the prices of books justified? How many copies does an average book sell? And the number one question: where do all these big profits go? To the bookstore, the distributor, publisher or author?

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Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit

by Mordecai Plaut

The young man was indignant. "I have nothing against a neighborhood eruv," he told the askan who came to ask him why he had uprooted the poles that had been set up near his house. "But that was certainly not an eruv pole. Eruv poles are simple wood sticks. This was a five-inch galvanized steel pole! That is not how you make an eruv."


Opinion and Comment
True Mercy Living

By Mordecai Plaut

Kindness and mercy are always in favor. To help those in need, to champion the cause of those who cannot speak for themselves -- these are always actions that evoke an approving reaction from those who hear about them.


Opinion and Comment
The Steipler on Learning Mussar With Children

The sefer, Ashkavtei Derebbi brings the following: Our teacher was asked whether it was necessary to learn mussar with a six-and-a-half year old boy. He responded, "Certainly one should learn with him! Otherwise he'll grow up wild and without restraint. The ideas of reward and punishment, of Gan Eden and Gehennom and of the world having a Master, should be implanted in him."


Opinion and Comment
New US Report Links More Diseases to Smoking

by M. Plaut

U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona released a new comprehensive report on smoking and health last Thursday May 27, revealing that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body. Published 40 years after the US Surgeon General's first report on smoking -- which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three serious diseases -- this newest report finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach.




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