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Bais Yaakov Seminar Principals Stand Firm on Acceptance
Procedures The Union of Bais Yaakov Seminary Principals announced, after consulting with gedolei Yisroel shlita, that if seminary acceptance procedures based on technical, formal criteria are imposed on them, rather than the spiritual guidelines the seminaries are founded on, they will be unable to open the school year. Under such circumstances some 30,000 students around the country, representing all backgrounds, would not be going to classes. United Torah Judaism sent a pointed letter on Monday to Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. Noting
that "the Mehadrin lines are voluntary, carried out by women who want
to retain their dignity when using public transportation, on their own
initiative, not through coercion," they demanded that the prime
minister retract his remarks.
A large crowd was on hand at Kikar HaShabbat in Jerusalem on Sunday
for a demonstration against the expropriation of the R' Shimon Bar
Yochai gravesite in Meiron.
During a gathering of rabbonim and educators at the home of Maran
HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita at his home Monday night, in
preparation for the Fourth Education Conference, HaRav Eliashiv said,
"To enable students to withstand the tests of today's unbridled
generation, educators should lay emphasis on instilling ahavas
Torah, careful adherence to halacha, a fear of judgment and faith
in the teachings of Chazal."
Even the organizers were surprised by the enormous turnout at Binyanei
Ha'Uma (Jerusalem Convention Center) last week for the Komocha
conference, which brought together all of the organizations for people
with special needs in the chareidi and national-religious communities
in Israel.
In the city of Tarmigrad, a son was born to the Divrei Chaim of Zanz
in the same house as he himself was born. The date Reb Yechezkel
Shraga was born was 20 Shvat 5576 (1816), and he was named after his
paternal great-grandfather, the father of the Boruch Taam.
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