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At The Center of the Universe
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What Would the Chazon Ish Do if he were Prime Minister?

A confidant of Torah leaders, HaRav Aharon Yeshaya Roter, says:

The first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, asked the Chazon Ish in a famous encounter, as follows: "Let us speak theoretically that it is decided that the Chazon Ish become Prime Minister. What would you promulgate? Would you give gemoras to all soldiers or would you provide them with sophisticated weaponry?"

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Campaign to Encourage Everyone to Join Areivim

In all Jewish communities there is a pronounced arousal to the call of Torah leaders to utilize these few days left of the annual Areivim week to join this project, especially through the come-on of lotteries of various prizes donated for the purpose of getting the public to join and to urge others to join. This lottery is being held for the new applicants and for present members who bring new members to Areivim.

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Iron Dome was Chosen as the Most Important Israeli Invention

The competition of "The Seventy Major Israeli Inventions" initiated by the Ministry of Economy has reached its culmination in the choice of the Iron Dome missile defense system as the chief invention of the state. The competition included 115,000 voters. The second prize was awarded to the popular WAZE road navigation program, while the third prize went to the drip irrigation invention by a narrow margin of only twelve votes less than the second prize.

 

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The Elevating Nature of Shabbos

by HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira

Part I

"You did not give it, Hashem our Elokim, to the nations of the lands, nor did You make it the inheritance, our King, of the worshipers of graven idols. And in its rest the uncircumcised shall not abide" (Shemoneh Esrei, Shacharis of Shabbos).


The Areivim Plan: Life Insurance that Nourishes the Soul

by Mordecai Plaut

"What is it that distinguishes the thousands of years of history from what we think of as modern times?" What is "the revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past"? A hint: It is something that "goes way beyond the progress of science, technology, capitalism, and democracy." (All quotations from the introduction to, Against the Gods, the Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein, unless otherwise noted.)

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