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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Why We Protest Chilul Shabbos — Lessons from the Past
All of Israel was in shock on the 19th of Iyar, 5684 (1924). There were public protests, articles written, enough of which were produced to be printed up in a hard cover book. Why the noise? A disgraceful chillul Shabbos had been perpetrated by two heads of the Jewish Agency, one from London and the other, a resident of Jerusalem.
A special gathering was recently held by Moked HaRav, a Halachic Medical Hotline, under the guidance of HaRav Moshe Shaul Klein.
This story is attributed to the reporter on Arab affairs, Tzvi Yechezkeli, today a fully observant Jew, who related it in one of his interviews, regarding the person instrumental in his return to his roots. His interviewee was one of the top men of the Palestinian terror organizations of Judea and Samaria, Zechariya Zaveidi (who was just arrested by Security agents for his involvement in several terrorist acts during that period).
This article was first published in 2001, when cell phones were not as common as today. But it presents very careful arguments explaining how cell phones are harmful to growth in learning.
Lag B'Omer at Meiron
From Our Archives A Tale Of Two Articles
by Jonathan Rosenblum
Just over two years ago, Commentary published an article by Rabbi Clifford Librach entitled "Does Conservative Judaism Have a Future?" Rabbi Librach predicted the gradual merger of the Conservative and Reform movements.
Our Counting and Ruth's Vision
by HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
The following is based on the lectures of HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg shlita, to his Yeshiva Torah Ore, Jerusalem in the years 5747 and 5753.
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