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Worthless Tefillin Retzuos Made of Bonded Leather
Nurse Paging System for Shabbos
The Tavor Technologies company has announced the completion of the development of a new nurse-paging device for the bedridden which conforms halachically to Shabbos use lemehadrin.
Few Jews Remain in Damascus and Aleppo
Of the 140 Jews who were living until recently in the Syrian capital of Damascus, and in Aleppo, which was formerly a significant Jewish center, only some 50 Jews remain. This information was revealed by Israeli Druse MK Iyov Kra, the man responsible for regional collaboration, after speaking with the leader of Syrian Jewry. The latter updated him with the fact of the considerable drop in the numbers of Jews still living in those two major Syrian cities. This Jewish leader conveyed this fact last Tuesday, but asked that his identity remain secret. He reported that only eight Jewish women live in Aleppo, and not even one man. All the rest have already left.
In honor of his yahrtzeit 15th Tammuz 5670 (1910)
In the year 5598 (1838) a son was born to HaRav Elimelech, rov of Rudnik. Reb Elimelech was a close talmid of the Rebbe of Ropshitz, together with his yedid, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.
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Megillas Eichoh was Written before the Churban
Yirmiyohu Hanovi wrote Megillas Eichoh at the time that Jerusalem was still vibrant, bustling with people and all roads still led to the royal capital. Its streets hummed with lively activity, as Yirmiyohu Hanovi describes.
Rav Avrohom Yeshayohu Kanievsky, a grandson of the Steipler's, writes in his biographical work about his grandfather, "I asked our teacher for his opinion of all the modern gadgetry that is to be found today in every Jewish home, and about the current way of life where the wife earns a living while the husband is occupied in the tent of Torah. This is what he answered:
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