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NEWS
Efforts to Persuade Bus Companies to Provide Mehadrin
Service
By Yechiel Sever
Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tachburoh, under the guidance of
gedolei Yisroel, held a long, exhaustive meeting that
ended with a decision to embark on a series of steps designed
to pressure and persuade public transportation companies to
allow mehadrin lines.
Torah Culture Week Opens in Jerusalem
By Yechiel Sever
On Tuesday evening the first day of Chanukah the Jerusalem
Municipality's Torah Culture Department launched the second
annual Torah Culture Week in Jerusalem. After candlelighting
on the first night of Chanukah, the first event got underway,
kicking off a week of events for women, high school girls and
younger girls. Every evening a Torah event for men only will
be held as well.
Discrimination Against Observant Jews at French
Universities
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris
The first real test of relations between the French
leadership under President Nikolas Sarkozy and the Jewish
community is beginning to raise its head. The Consistoire,
the central organization of the French Jewish community,
contacted the High Authority to Fight Discrimination and
Promote Equality (HALDE) to protest requirements for Jewish
students to take exams on Shabbos and Shavuos.
South African Jewish Community Continues to Cope With High
Emigration
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
A new book by three South Africans who emigrated to Australia
surveys the unique history of these Jews, whose forefathers
arrived on the African continent just 100 years ago and have
already found themselves immigrants once again. The book,
entitled Two Worlds: The Second Emigration of South
African Jews, notes that during the period of political
instability in the country in the mid-1980s emigration was
very common among young adults.
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