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Floor Tiles of Second Beis Hamikdosh Reconstructed

The City of David organization announced that its archaeologists from the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Sifting Project have successfully restored a series of decorated floor tiles that paved the porticos atop the Temple Mount, and which likely also covered areas in the courtyards of the Second Temple as reconstructed by King Herod. The restored tiles were displayed on September 8th, at the 17th Annual City of David Archaeological Conference.

Chinuch Atzmai has grown this past year by seven percent. Seventeen classes have been opened in new schools, over forty classes have been added in existing schools and another one hundred and twenty classes in school buildings which have been transferred to the Chinuch Atzmai network.

Non-Certified Investments are Pikuach Nefesh

Professor Shmuel Hauser, Chairman of Stocks and Bonds, together with the top echelon of the Authority, presented a special briefing for chareidi communications representatives regarding the steep rise in the number of investment requests from the chareidi public due to the many instances in which chareidi families invested the bulk of their money in uncertain moneymaking schemes and lost their investments totally.

New Rabbi for Frankfurt

Rabbi Avichai Appel, who has served for the past eight years as chairman of the Orthodox Rabbinical Committee of Germany, the ORD, was unanimously chosen three months ago by the members of the Kehilla Committee as Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, to serve in tandem with Rabbi Chaim Shoshan, who has served in this post for the past four years.

Jewish Remains Found in Munich Research Institute

Shock waves are rocking the entire Jewish world in general and more specifically the Jewish community of Munich. In the course of a reorganization of the Science Institute in Munich, dozens of Jewish specimens were discovered which had served for scientific research during the Holocaust.

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