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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

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Jerusalem Chareidi Sector Unites Behind UTJ List and Rabbi Porush's Mayoral Bid
By Yechiel Sever

Jerusalem's chareidi sector is rallying behind UTJ's mayoral candidate, Rabbi Meir Porush and the UTJ city council list, which brings together Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisroel under the "Gimmel" voting symbol.


Dozens of False Conversions Performed in Riga
By Yechiel Sever, Riga

Based on a visit to Riga at the invitation of the Latvian Jewish community, a delegation of rabbonim revealed alarming findings regarding dozens of false conversions performed there recently. The delegation included representatives from the Conference of European Rabbis and Vaad Haolami LeInyonei Giyur, founded by the late gavad of Antwerp, HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth.


Plan to Renovate Beit Knesset Magen Avraham and Jewish Cemetery in Beirut
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

A media storm broke out in Lebanon over rumors Hizbullah planned to fund the renovation of the 83-year-old Magen Avraham Synagogue in the center of Beirut where the Jewish Quarter used to be. Speculations in various newspapers focused on the identity of the figures behind the funding of the project, which was described as "unique."


Hitler Led Kristallnacht
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

A German historian researching the diaries of Josef Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, has revealed that Hitler himself led the Kristallnacht pogrom in Munich on November 9, 1938 as head of a Nazi group that razed Ohel Yaakov, the central synagogue of Munich, capital of Bavaria.


Rebbetzin Lifsha Feinstein o"h
By S. Bruchi

Thousands of Bnei Brak and Jerusalem residents headed by maranan verabonon, roshei yeshivos and other bnei Torah took part in the funeral for Rebbetzin Lifsha Feinstein o"h, the widow of HaRav Yechiel Michel Feinstein, on Sunday. She passed away at the age of 90.


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