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What do the Reform Care about the Kosel?

During a period of formal questions addressed to the Interior Minister during a Knesset plenum, Rabbi Arye Deri replied to those questions applying to his office.

Torah Does not Go With Tumah

"Torah does not go together with tumah, and this is what we must realize and guard against - to remove all of the tumos which can interfere with Torah study." These were the words of HaRav Yitzchok Scheiner, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminitz and member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, at a special gathering organized by the rabbonim of Yeshivas Kaminitz commemorating the 120th year anniversary since its establishment in Kaminitz on the day of the passing of its former Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Boruch Ber Levovitz on the fifth of Kislev.

Studying in Academic Institutions

by Ruach Acheres

In Israel a great struggle is going on. The government and educational authorities are working steadily to break down the chareidi social barriers and to "integrate" them into the general society. The milestones and the goal posts are defined in terms that are hostile to the current chareidi lifestyle and deeply conflict with Torah values and even explicit Torah laws.

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FEATURE The Modern World: A "Land Full of Chomos"? by Mordecai Plaut Dr. William McGuire, the former head of the UnitedHealth Group Inc., built up the company, which was near bankruptcy when he took over, into the second largest insurer in the United States. The stock price rose from two dollars when Dr. McGuire took over to 60 dollars, though it has fallen back to around 50 dollars.

OPINION The Journey Fiction by B. Navon "I would like to go to Israel," Paula said to her parents one day. "The youth group is planning a trip and all the kids are going." Paula was a young American teenager raised in a home where anything at all religious was viewed as fanatical. It wasn't that they really hated religion. Rather, their lack of observance stemmed from a combination of ignorance and a fear of the unknown.

OPINION HaRav Shach: At the Helm of the Yeshivos Hakedoshos by HaRav Dovid Cohen I once asked Maran ztvk'l for his opinion regarding accepting to yeshiva gedolah students who had previously studied in schools that did not conform to the accepted daas Torah norm. Perhaps such students had true potential for becoming bnei Torah and it would do them an injustice to deny them acceptance; perhaps they had gone to such schools only because their parents had insisted on it.