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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Heichal HaTorah - Hakosel Hamaarovi: A New Public Beis Medrash near the Kosel In wake of the tremendous demand of the Torah public, it has been decided to open each Thursday evening, leil Shishi, the Heichal HaTorah - Kosel Maarovi area near the Kosel square so that the thousands who come to this remnant of the Beis Hamikdash can study Torah in tranquility and clarity without disturbance. At this place, one can avail oneself of the thousands of volumes of a Torah library on Shas, Rishonim and Acharonim, as well as works on Jewish philosophy and Mussar.
A new proposed law allows every tenant the right to install a Shabbos water pump at his expense without requiring the consent of all the other tenants. As a result, a delegation from Mishmeres HaShabbos paid a visit, together with MK Rabbi Yaakov Asher, the initiator of the law, to the home of the Slobodka Rosh Yeshiva to seek his blessing for this fine achievement. The law was imperative since beforehand, Shabbos observers were prevented from installing a kosher pump unless all the tenants agreed to it. Attorney Yehuda Cohen explained that according to the new proposed law, a Shabbos arrangement can be installed for pumps in residential buildings, similar to the existing rule for lighting where special lighting need not require consent of all the neighbors - but could be installed at a tenant's own cost.
On Friday June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it had overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing a woman's constitutional right to abortion. Agudath Israel of America welcomes this historic development. Agudath Israel has long been on record as opposing Roe v. Wade's legalization of abortion on demand. Informed by the teaching of Jewish law that fetal life is entitled to significant protection, with termination of pregnancy authorized only under certain extraordinary circumstances, we are deeply troubled by the staggering number of pregnancies in the United States that end in abortion.
OPINION America is up in arms about a US Supreme Court decision. Former president Donald Trump, who has not yet said his last word, succeeded during the four years of his tenure to effect a revolution in the makeup of the judges in the US Supreme Court. In America, judges are not chosen by an inner clique like in little Israel, but by the sitting president, as it has been conducted for the past many years. Nor is there any mandatory age for retirement; rather, judges can willingly resign or leave the position through a "call from On High". Thus, a president cannot always appoint judges or affect the makeup of the court. During Trump's office, three judges left the court, so that of the nine seats, he was able to appoint three new judges of conservative leanings in the spirit of the Republican Party, and create a solid majority of conservative judges, six all told, vs. three liberal ones.
Dr. Nosson Birnbaum: The First Prominent Modern Baal Teshuvah This year marks the eighty-fifth yahrtzeit of Dr. Nosson Birnbaum. One of the secular founders of the Zionist movement, but later a lay leader of the early Agudas Yisroel, Dr. Birnbaum also was one of the first to return from secularism to religion. His story and his thought are of gripping interest and even importance to us today. Part IV The next installment in the biographical material about Dr. Nathan Birnbaum, seminal figure in turn-of-the-century Jewish life. We have learned of Dr. Birnbaum's selfless dedication to his people, and his eventual recognition of the truth of Torah. Our story picks up here after Dr. Birnbaum's return to Torah ideals and full shemiras mitzvos.
VII. Emissary To Klal Yisroel News of Birnbaum's teshuva spread around the Jewish world: the modern Jewish Nationalist was now laying tefillin and keeping Shabbos and kashrus just like an old-time yid. Not only that; he was pouring fire and brimstone on the "idolatrous Jews," his one-time cronies.
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