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The situation in the Palestinian areas of the Gaza strip
seemed to be heading for chaos, as various terror groups
battled each other. The Palestinian Authority is facing
complete anarchy.
France is irate over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's calls to
French Jews to come on aliyah as soon as possible due
to antisemitism in their current home. French officials sent
a message to Jerusalem telling Israel to halt plans for
Sharon's visit to Paris because the Prime Minister is
unwanted in France.
Following four days of nationwide hysteria and condemnations
by national leaders, France tried to restore equilibrium
after a young woman supposedly attacked by antisemitic Arabs
on a suburban commuter train admitted that she invented the
whole story.
Seventy thousand families felt the sting of another cut in
child allowances going into effect on July 20, following the
cut enacted by the government and the Knesset one year ago,
with Shinui and NRP support, as part of the Finance
Ministry's new economic program.
The Education Ministry assumed a stricter policy than the
Justice Ministry and the Attorney General on the issue of
requiring the chareidi education system to abide by the Core
Curriculum Program, according to statements issued at a
Knesset Education Committee meeting convened by Committee
Chairman MK Ilan Shalgi (Shinui).
Cut in Chareidi Kindergarten Funding Degel HaTorah Chairman Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz sent a letter to
the director of Betzedek, Rabbi Mordechai Green, to request
an inquiry into the possibility of a High Court appeal
against the decision by Education Minister L. Livnat to cut
the budget for chareidi kindergartens by 15 percent next
year.
Australia's Jewish community, today exceeding the 110,000
mark, can attribute much of its growth over the past two
decades to immigration from South Africa. In June-July this
year, South African Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris was given an
opportunity to observe how South African expatriates were
coping, both in Australia and neighboring New Zealand during
a busy speaking tour on behalf of the Anti-Defamation
Commission. Appointing Secular Jews to Head Chevra Kadishas The Ministerial Committee for Burial Matters plans to appoint
a secular management to run chevra kadishas around the
country said representatives of the Chevra Kadisha Management
Forum at a meeting of the Knesset Religious Lobby, warning
that such a move could lead to secular burials. Erev Chizuk at Camp Agudah in Ferndale, NY HaRav Boruch Dov Povarsky, one of the roshei yeshivos at
Yeshivas Ponovezh, delivered the central address at the
Erev Chizuk at Beis Medrash Machaneh Ephraim at Camp
Agudah in Ferndale, New York. Kol Hadaf Information Center for Vacationers
As bein hazmanim approaches Kol Hadaf has decided to
set up a center to provide information on Daf Yomi
shiurim and bein hazmanim yeshivas in locations
around Israel in order to help vacationers maintain their
daily learning schedules.
There are plenty of things in the world today for us to worry
about. There is the general decline in morality of the West,
which expresses itself in so many areas. The West is
certainly sliding down a very slippery slope that can only
end very unpleasantly, and we have at least an obligation to
protest.
Education Towards Ahavas Yisroel
Once, I took a cab ride with a driver who appeared to be far
from Torah and mitzvos. Along the way, he started
talking about his brother who had moved to America. "He moved
to California and became religious," he murmured. After a
pause, he added softly, "If I lived in California, I'd also
be religious." Sheyiboneh Beis Hamikdosh In Exile With the Torah
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