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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- Secular Symbol of Jewish Success

The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis which began on April 29, 1943 and lasted about a month, just over sixty years ago, is used by secular Jews as a sign and a symbol of what they want to remember: an act of physical heroism and resistance against an overwhelmingly stronger force that managed to hold out and inflict losses on the Nazi forces.

What the Economic Decrees are Really Supposed to Achieve
by Rabbi N. Z. Grossman

Part I

A Grim Outlook

The campaign against the harsh measures that the Treasury is seeking to impose on the chareidi world in general and the Torah public in particular is underway. To date, it has managed to make the community aware of the need to engage in a broad and comprehensive public struggle to achieve the rescinding of the malicious plans that aim to strike the Torah public a fatal blow.

"She is Defiling Her Father"
by R' Yerachmiel Kram

"And the daughter of any Cohen, if she profane herself . . . she profanes her father; she shall be burnt with fire" (Vayikra 21:9).

Remembering on Yom Hasho'a

To the Editor:

It's 5:05 in the morning, the sky is still dark as dawn approaches. A bearded ultra-orthodox Jewish man is walking to synagogue for his morning prayers wearing a black kippa and tallis over his head and shoulders. The streets are empty and quiet, except for the Jew and a lone man, bare- headed, walking down the street in the opposite direction, taking his dog for its early morning walk. Not another soul in sight.


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