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28 Nissan 5763 - April 30, 2003 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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The Media is Manipulated

The fall of Baghdad was a relief for the news media as well as the people of Iraq. The chief news executive of CNN has written publicly that there were "many . . . gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely." For the past dozen years, he wrote, CNN has refrained from reporting these events because "doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."

Torah Weakens a Person
by R' Yerachmiel Kram

"You shall be holy for I, Hashem, your G-d, am holy" (Vayikra 19:2).

"Sanctify Yourself Through the Permissible"

Rashi explains that the essence of the holiness which the Torah is referring to here is the obligation to separate oneself from licentiousness and sin. Distancing oneself from immorality is considered holiness. Rashi even provides several elucidating proofs.

The Real Damage from the Anti-Religious Government
by M. Shotland

Moves by the newly set up government and their results generated heaps and heaps of analysis in the general press as well as the chareidi press. Predictably the focus was generally on political and party repercussions, as well as personal repercussions which we are likely to hear about for a long time to come.

What Does bin-Laden's Handwriting Say About Him?
by Yoseph Engel

The epithet, "the most hated person in America," has been aptly applied to Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of the Al-Qaeda worldwide Islamic terror organization. Jews and non- Jews alike were intentionally massacred on 9/11.


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