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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. PM Netanyahu Says The Chareidi Community Cooperates on Vaccination
Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an unusual interview this past Monday to News 12 during which he referred to the court cases against him, the election campaign and the battle against the Corona virus. He said that he believed that this time he would be able to muster a block of 61 mandates from the right wing of Israeli politics in order to establish a new stable government.
These are typically short answers given to short questions asked by his grandson, HaRav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky.
Many pilgrims visit the section of the cemetery in Haditsch, Ukraine, for prayer by the tomb of the Baal HaTanya. Very sadly, however, there are hundreds of Jewish graves scattered throughout the cemetery surrounding the tomb. The entire area is open and violated by local residents who feel free to do as they will.
A new program was presented to the public this past Motzei Shabbos with the blessings of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky and HaRav Gershon Eidelstein, as well as the support of Torah leaders and roshei yeshiva. The new program, Kol Mibei Midrasha for yeshiva students, "Yod'ei Shmecha", presents short vaadim from Torah leaders and rabbonim on selected topics geared to fortify the listeners in ways to draw closer to Hashem.
The Mashgiach, HaRav Don Segal, opened the first assembly which took place this past Motzei Shabbos Mishpotim by saying that "all the listeners will join this program presenting lofty matters on the one hand, while on the other, it will address the lowest point in our lives, or, in other words, it will encompass our entire lives."
"Spring has passed and summer is over - we have not yet been saved." (Yirmiyah 8:20) Thousands of our fellow Jews, among them Torah giants and tzaddikim, have been afflicted with the terrible COVID-19 disease, and - may Hashem help us! - many of those have passed away. The pandemic has greatly diminished the Torah learning in our yeshivos, Bais Yaakovs, and shuls; it has curtailed our Yomim Tovim and celebrations.
Part IV
The story of Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman, who passed away over seventy-five years ago, contains important lessons for understanding about the survival of Torah in the spiritually barren and desolate land that America was a hundred years ago. Rabbi Drachman grew up in a thoroughly American environment, but he nonetheless became firmly and deeply committed to Torah true principles that were, in his person, completely at ease with his all-American heritage. Rabbi Drachman saw, with a fresh and open American eye, the flowering of HaRav Hirsch's Frankfurt, as well as the vitality of eastern Europe. He attended the funeral of Sir Moses Montefiore, officiated at the funeral of Harry Houdini and was on familiar terms with Seth Low, one of the legendary presidents of Columbia University. He also translated Hirsch's The Nineteen Letters and was responsible for Mordechai Kaplan's dismissal from his post as a rabbi in New York City in an Orthodox congregation solely because of the latter's heretical views. His fascinating story helps us understand some of the important roots of the American Jewish community.
Rain and Kinneret Watch by Dei'ah Vedibur
Staff
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret -
Winter, 5781.
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