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

NOTICE:
Our next issue will be for the week of parshas Shofetim. No issue is scheduled for the week of parshas Re'eih.

NEWS

College Students Get Three Times as much as Kollel Students
By M. Green

The public uproar in the wake of a High Court decision that the Guaranteed Income program for avreichim constitutes inequality has yet to abate.

Bogus Claims of Violence on Mehadrin Lines
By Yechiel Sever

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz rejected allegations of violence on Mehadrin bus lines based on the conclusions of a ministerial committee he set up to look into the matter after Reform and Conservative petitioners argued in court that Mehadrin lines should be banned because passengers display violence.


Sycamore Tree at Barzilai Building Site Removed
By Yechiel Sever

After long weeks of delaying the construction of a reinforced emergency ward at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon due to an ancient sycamore tree growing at the site — which was removed much more slowly than the graves at the site — the tree was finally moved early this week.


Ramot Girls' School to Use 10 Classrooms in Government Religious School
By Yechiel Sever

Tvunat Yaakov, a school in Jerusalem's Ramot Alef neighborhood, is set to start using ten classrooms in the neighborhood's government religious school — where enrollment has plummeted — following a decision by the Court for Administrative Affairs in Jerusalem.


Lighting Installed at Shazifron Parking Lot in Meiron
By Yechiel Sever

Following years of bureaucratic delays a lighting system was installed in the Shazifron Parking Lot and the walkway from the parking lot to the village and to the road leading to R' Shimon Bar Yochai's gravesite in Meiron.


Finance Ministry Approves Rabbinate Court Renovation Plan
By Eliezer Rauchberger

The Finance Ministry has approved a multi-year construction plan for the Rabbinate botei din, Rabbinate Courts Director-General Eliyahu Ben Dahan told Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni.



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