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A Clueless Prime Minister

Prime Minister Ehud Barak cannot decide if he wants to unify Israel or divide it. It was no more than sixteen months ago, right after he was elected, that he said that he would be everyone's prime minister, but only two months later he showed that he was not the religious community's prime minister when he ordered the gratuitous and insulting chilul Shabbos in transporting an oversized turbine component on Shabbos.

The Torah Universe: Bigfoot In The Mir
by Rabbi Nosson Slifkin

Mir Yeshiva, Jerusalem. My chavrusa and I were puzzling over the first mishnah in chapter four of maseches Shabbos. It states that one may not on Shabbos insulate a cooked food with straw, dung, and the like, "because they increase the heat of the food." My chavrusa and I were trying to understand how that is possible.

The Yeshivos Hakedoshos -- The Nation's Lifeline
by HaRav Shmuel Berenbaum

This shmuess was delivered by HaRav Shmuel Berenbaum at Yeshivas Beis Hillel in Bnei Brak during a chizuk meeting before the beginning of the summer zman.

Who Created the Luminaries
by L. Jungerman

"And Elokim saw the light that it was good, and Elokim made a division between the light and the darkness."

Rashi: Here, too, we require the exegesis of Aggada: He saw that the light was not worth benefiting the wicked and so He set it aside for the righteous in the World to Come.

WHEN MEDIA BECOMES MALIGNANT
by Rabbi Avi Shafran

It is now well known that the bloodied and dazed "Palestinian" depicted in the Associated Press photograph published in The New York Times and other major papers on the first day of Rosh Hashana was in reality a yeshiva boy from Chicago. And that Tuvia Grossman's assailants were not Israelis but members of a Palestinian mob who dragged the young man out, beat and stabbed him. And that the infuriated Israeli policeman with a baton in the background was shouting not at the bloodied youth but at the Palestinians who brutally attacked him.


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