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NEWS
The Agudah Convention's Thursday Night Session
In a gathering of particularly compelling interest to parents of young yeshiva-age children, three of the generation's leading rabbinic figures offered profound analyses and Torah-rooted solutions to the unprecedented challenges of contemporary chinuch habonim at the Thursday evening Plenary Session of the 91st annual convention of Agudath Israel of America in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. The session was appropriately titled, "Chanoch La'naar: Nurturing Our Children, Ensuring Our Future."
Agudah Convention Keynote Session Focuses on Assault on Chareidi Community in Eretz Yisroel
The atmosphere at the Hilton Woodcliff Lake in New Jersey literally crackled with excitement on Motzei Shabbos as the thousands of participants at the 91st National Convention of Agudath Israel of America gathered to hear renowned Torah leaders discuss the Keynote Session's controversial but pressing topic, "The Unprecedented Assault on the Chareidi Community in Eretz Yisroel."
French Jewry May Continue to Perform Bris Milah
While France is standing alongside Israel against the world powers regarding the Iranian issue, the French president, Francois Hollande, sent a letter to the president of the Jewish Congregations, Mr. Yoel Margi, in which he declares: "Regarding [ritual] circumcision, France takes a strong position based on religious freedom. Therefore, it is unthinkable that any restrictions be instituted in an act which is a symbol of Judaism."
Stop Desecration of the Old City
Members of the United Torah Jewry party in the Jerusalem municipality met on Sunday for an emergency discussion on steps to be taken urgently and immediately in order to halt the abhorrent and indecent performances taking place these day in the Old City en route to the remnant of our holy Beis Hamikdash, the Kosel Hamaaravi.
Opinion: The Last Command Post
The article before us, is an acutely candid product of the late writer and educator, Rav Meir Weisberg, who was known for his zeal regarding everything sacred through total submission to our gedolei Torah.
1944 in Bergen-Belsen. After much toil the Rabbi of Bluzhov, Rabbi Yisroel Shapiro
managed to obtain oil in time for the first night of Chanukah. Radiating a holy fire
of his own, the Rebbe, trembling with emotion rather than fear, recited the three
brochos and lit the first single flame. Tears of joy and sadness combined and poured
forth from all those present. Suddenly, one of the inmates, a former member of the Bund
of Warsaw who had cast off any yoke of Torah, approached the Rebbe and posed a question
in a loud, clear voice.
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