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More Complaints of Arab Violence Against Jews in Suburb
East of Paris
In the Jewish community of Cartier, a suburb east of Paris,
complaints of Arab attacks against Jews are on the rise.
The Knesset Constitution Committee decided that articles and
op-eds printed in newspapers before elections and calling on
readers to support a certain party, and public notices issued
by gedolei Torah — "kol korei" —
should not be considered contributions to the party with a
monetary value.
Several EU parliamentarians are waging a lone battle against
the pro-Palestinian incitement taking over the benches of the
European Parliament.
A delegation representing the Rabbinical Committee for
Transportation Matters was received by HaRav Chaim Kanievsky
shlita at his home and received his blessings for
success in the efforts to protect travelers from immodest
entertainment on airplanes.
Intruders broke into the R' Yosef Caro Synagogue in Tzfas and
stole dozens of old sifrei kodesh, some of which were
rare and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A siyum on Maseches Sotah held last week at the home
of the Rosh Yeshiva HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman shlita
left a lasting impression on the dozens of participants in
the Meoros HaDaf HaYomi shiur in Haifa's Neveh Shaanan
neighborhood.
Rabbonim and educators in Netanya have come out against a
performance scheduled for next week (following Tisha B'Av)
claiming to be chareidi. In a letter they issued the rabbonim
note, "We were very disturbed to hear about the individuals
who are scheming to hold publicly and openly in our city a
family event [billed as a `happening'] that contains terrible
immodesty and has been banned by all gedolei Yisroel."
Tears: Reflections and Conceptions by R' Arye Geffen
They tell of a certain disciple who was seated by the
seder table of his rebbe, HaRav Yitzchok Hutner
zt'l. He was so emotionally overcome that he
accidentally spilled some wine on the snowy white tablecloth.
Seeing his confusion, his host said, "A seder table
without wine stains is like a Yomim Noraim machzor
without tear stains."
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The Shabbos after Tisha B'Av, parshas
Voeschanon, is called Shabbos Nachamu because of
the haftorah in Yeshaya 40 "Console, console My
people" that is read on that Shabbos. This haftorah
starts a series of shivah denechemtoh (seven
haftoros of consolation).
The fifteenth of Menachem Av (Tu B'Av) is considered a Yom
Tov because of several reasons: First, it is the day that
bnei Yisroel stopped dying in the Sinai Desert.
Second, bnei Yisroel were then allowed to marry from
one shevet to the other, and those from shevet
Binyomin were allowed to marry within bnei Yisroel.
Third, on this day Hoshei'a ben Aloh removed the barricades
originally put up by Yerovam ben Nevot preventing bnei
Yisroel to be oleh regel. Fourth, bnei
Yisroel then stopped chopping down wood for the
mizbeiach and therefore they had more time to study
Torah. Sixth, on this day those killed in Beitar were
buried.
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