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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. "We Act for the Good of Klal Yisroel, not Just Ourselves" In a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, organized by MK Chairman Rabbi Moshe Gafni, with the heads of Shuvu and philanthropic representatives from abroad, the former stated that the outreach organizations are performing a sacred effort in drawing Jewish children distant from Torah and mitzvah-observance closer to Judaism.
International Medical Halachic Hotline: HRB Following several months of blessed activity in Israel by the HRB, the international medical halachic hotline, the organization's administration realized the need to also establish a similar service outside of Israel. The thousands of halachic questions flowing into the headquarters, spanning the world's continents, and the huge wave of questions coming from across the sea, have caused the organization to take stock, and after seeking counsel with the guiding figure in Israel, HaRav Moshe Shaul Klein, it has been decided to expand this service to the U.S. as well.
In honor of his yahrtzeit 19th Kislev 5533/1773
Even before he forged a close connection with his Rebbe the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid was already renowned for his greatness in Torah ve'avodoh.
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HaRav Shach: The Father of Yeshivos in Our Generation
To Be Heedful of Yeshiva Money
Rabbenu once said, in a talk, that anyone who takes food from the yeshiva without permission is considered to be stealing - to the degree that he is invalid for testimony! When he heard that some of the students refused to allow a newcomer to join their dormitory room, he also came down very harshly against them and said it was altogether forbidden. He further said that the donors who had given money for the yeshiva had likewise empowered the hanholoh to make decisions concerning the use of the facilities as they saw fit.
Vampire Spiders, Hashem's Chesed and Earning a Livelihood
by Rabbi Nosson Grossman
Modern scientific research continuously reveals marvels of Hashem's Creation. A new research study partly funded by the National Geographic Society, reviewed in the National Geographic Magazine of Oct. 11, 2005 and published in detail in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents us with an additional glimpse into the miraculous wisdom displayed in every detail of nature, and how HaKodosh Boruch Hu provides for every one of His creatures, "from the huge re'em to tiny lice" (Avodoh Zorah 3b).
The Final Days of the War in the Pacific and the Jews of Shanghai
by A. Bernstein
To this day, writers and scholars continue to dispute the necessity of dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to induce the Japanese government - determined to defend "the honor of the Japanese Empire" to the end - to surrender. The debate was renewed last summer, the sixtieth anniversary of the dropping of the bombs. "Victory or death," was the Japanese' motto, but did hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens really have to die?
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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