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OPINION & COMMENT

Life Will Prevail Over Death

Even the Americans have learned something from their experience in Iraq. "This is a negative insurgency," Brig. Gen. Erwin Lessel, deputy director of operations for the multinational forces, told a reporter for the New York Times. "Unlike a classical insurgency, these groups don't offer anything."

"They want to dictate to us what to teach and how to educate. We must fight this with all our might!"
HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman

With regard to Avrohom Ovinu it is written, "Because I know him, for he commands his sons and his household to follow him and to guard the way of Hashem." The Torah tells us that the main reason that Hashem loves Avrohom Ovinu (which is denoted by the words `because I know him') is because he commands his household to follow his example of keeping the word of Hashem.

"The study of Mesillas Yeshorim Prevents Dissension"
by Rav Eliezer Rivlin

One of our readers drew our attention to a letter from R' Yosef Zundel of Salant zt'l written to R' Eliyohu Dov Levinson of Kartinga who, aside from his greatness in Torah and his piety, was also a wealthy and very generous man. R' Dov did much for the sake of the Yishuv settlement in Eretz Yisroel.

Between Two Worlds: Preparing Oneself for Shabbos on Erev Shabbos
by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis

Bomb Threats

It was Shmuel's first Friday in Yerushalayim and he just couldn't wait for Shabbos to come. Shmuel got ready early and took a taxi to the Kosel to daven. There was a minyan that was getting ready to recite Minchah almost an hour before sunset, and he joined them . . .

Politica
Sharon Take Your Pick: Rebels or Shas?

By E. Rauchberger

Ariel Sharon recently passed two hard tests. First he expanded his government thanks to the votes of two Arab MKs, the six Meretz MKs and one MK who was booted from Shinui (Yossi Paritzky), and then he managed to pass the state budget in a first reading, with the votes of the Likud "rebels."


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