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A Letter from Rav Chaim Kanievsky

The news I heard that a law is being passed to harm the very core of the souls of Klal Yisroel and to contaminate the cruse of pure oil, i.e., the sacred yeshiva and kollel students, shook me up and made me quake.


Rabbi Moshe Gafni in the Knesset: "The objective is to turn the chareidi public and the yeshiva students into secularists"

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni argued this past Monday in the Knesset plenum that were Ariel Sharon or Ehud Olmert standing at the helm of the government, any incendiary campaign against the chareidi public regarding yeshivas and the draft law would not arise, and surely not get as far as passing a law to this effect.


Major Step in Avoiding Pitfall of Interest

The announcement of the establishment of an encompassing pension/retirement plan, Glatt Hon, was met with great joy and satisfaction by the foremost rabbonim and dayanim of the country's botei din.


Demand that Germany Pass a Law Allowing Bris Milah

The Knesset Committee for Diaspora and Immigration demanded on Monday from the German ambassador in Israel, Andrias Michaelis, to inform the Bundestag [the German parliament] that it should pass a law permitting circumcision in the country, in light of the recent court ruling in Cologne forbidding the procedure.


Shemiras Halashon and Interpersonal Relations for the Recovery of HaRav Yosef Shalom Eliashiv

During the Three Weeks, our Torah leadership is mustering public awareness in matters dealing with interpersonal relations, especially in shemiras halashon. This is in addition to augmenting Torah study and increasing prayers for the recovery of HaRav Yosef Shalom ben Chaya Musha Eliashiv who is still in critical condition and in need of great heavenly mercy.


Planning the Central Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem

In full swing are the intensive preparations for the upcoming grand event of the Siyum HaShas in Eretz Yisroel scheduled to take place in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the 12th of Av and headed by maranan verabbonon, the foremost leaders of Torah and Chassidus.


Upcoming Dirshu Siyum HaShas Event

The Dirshu Organization has already been actively preparing for its central Siyum HaShas Rally for the past months. It is scheduled to take place on Monday, the 11th of Av, in the Yad Eliyahu stadium in Tel Aviv, while another rally, in English, will be held on the morrow, Tuesday, the 12th of Av, in the Binyanei Ha'Uma convention center in Jerusalem.


The Ohr HaChaim Hakodosh Rabbi Chaim Ben Attar, zt"l
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 16th Tammuz

The indelible impression of his grandfathers' diligence that the Ohr HaChaim observed and which was part of his youth never left him. Their regular schedule was a full day of learning, after which they would rest a little, never oversleeping the midnight hour. At chatzos they would be up, to sit and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh. After this, their learning resumed, continuing unabated through the following day.

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Antisemitism is Unstoppable

by Mordecai Plaut

The world is sliding down a slippery slope greased by the yetzer hora.

Fifty years ago, it seemed that the West, and especially the United States, was a society that was fairly moral in the specific sense that it upheld the Seven Laws of Noach. The largely Protestant country was free of avoda zora, there was a very developed legal system that enforced laws against murder in all its forms, 80 percent of all households were headed by a married couple, and all public, acceptable behavior upheld reasonable moral principles. People were not perfect but public standards were high and they were not under constant assault.

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Our Torah, Our Prayers And Our Tears: Our Torah
by HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg

Part I The sefer Kuzari teaches us that there are four basic groups of entities in the world; inanimate objects, plant- life, animal-life, and verbal/thinking human beings (domeim, tzomei'ach, chai, medaber -- mineral, vegetable, animal and human). From the most basic to the more advanced, these four classes make up the world. Each group has specific qualities, which are so significantly different from the previous level that each group has a completely different realm of experience. The Hashgochoh protis of each group is infinitely greater than the previous group in the hierarchy. Therefore, the specialized existence that it experiences is entirely different from the others.


The Jews of Libya



by C. Ofek

PART I The Jews of Libya were never a large community, numbering no more than 38,000 at its largest, just before almost 90 percent left for Eretz Yisroel before Libya attained independence in January, 1952. Yet it is an ancient community and there is evidence of Jewish settlement there dating to the time of the Second Beis Hamikdash.



Tarnished Gold: Rabbi Yaakov Yosef in the Land of Opportunity



by R. Hofner

At the end of the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing the horrors and pogroms of Czarist Russia streamed toward the shores of what came to be known as the Goldene Medinoh. Every month thousands of Jews were added to New York's population until at the beginning of the 20th century Jews comprised more than one-fourth of the city's total residents.





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