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10 Tammuz 5763 - July 10, 2003 | Mordecai Plaut, director

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Gambling is Decadent

The idea of legalized casino gambling, which is a perennial proposal in Israel, has recently received support from highly placed government officials. Although it was long considered unlikely in Israel, now powerful figures including the director of the prime minister's office and the Finance Minister have expressed support for the idea.

Finding Investors in the Brooklyn Bridge
by Chaim Walder

This column does not generally take a stance or make recommendations on business investments of one kind or another, but to every rule there is an exception and in the following lines we will talk about an investment that appears very safe, although this recommendation does not constitute accepting responsibility for the investment.

"Serve Hashem with Joy"
by R' Yerachmiel Kram

"He has not beheld iniquity in Yaakov nor has He seen perverseness in Yisroel" (Bamidbor 23:21).

I Look to the Poor Man, Who Trembles Over My Word
By Rabbi N. Z. Grossman

Introspection

The chareidi world in Israel is definitely under pressure. Our current Torah leaders, and lhbc'l, past Torah leaders, taught that whenever troubles threaten our community, we ought to try to identify some specific area in which there has been slackening.

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