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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Agudah Urges Comments on New York State Regulations The New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about "substantial equivalency of instruction" required for students attending non public schools. This can have severe ramifications for yeshivos and day schools across the board in NYS, so the Agudah issued some answers to common questions they are receiving about this serious development.
A special meeting which took place last week for Taharas Hamishpocha was attended by hundreds of rabbonim involved in family purity. The purpose of this annual convention is to enable those rabbonim to upgrade their proficiency and expertise in the laws of mikveh and in the hashkofoh outlook of drawing families to the practice of family purity, all under conditions of leisure so as to recharge the batteries, so to speak, of those involved in day to day activity for the purity of the Jewish people.
The city of Ludmir in Ukraine is witness to energetic activity in anticipation of the yahrtzeit of the Admor Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin which will took place on Thursday, the 22nd of Tammuz. Public activists have organized this year, with the help of "Oholei Tzaddim", a suitable building to accommodate visitors with lodging, a mikveh and a shul near and visible to the ancient cemetery in Ludmir where the Admor is buried.
On Sunday, the 11th of Tammuz, HaRav Yosef Tzvi Ben Porat, Rosh Yeshivas Ashrei HaIsh, went forth, accompanied by two disciples, HaRav Aharon Razilov and HaRav Zalman Rubin, who officiated in the Pitiagrosk congregation, for a booster visit in that community which lies in the Caucasus region.
 The essay was originally published by R' Elchonon to give perspective on the events of his time, and how they were seen and foreseen by chazal. Although it first appeared in Yiddish in 5699-1939, eighty years ago, its message is still fresh and vital. Part IV "In the generation in which the son of David comes, the face of the people will be as that of a dog" (Sotah 49b, Cheilek 97a). It is characteristic of the dog to run before its master, and it might seem that it goes according to its own free will, and its master follows the path set by the dog. In reality we know that the opposite is true; the owner goes where he likes, and the dog, while preceding him, obeys his whim. Should the master choose another direction straight away the dog turns also—and again proceeds to run ahead.
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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