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Interior Minister Decides to Close Food Shops on Shabbos in Tel Aviv

There was a positive response to Minister Gideon Saar's courageous decision to forbid groceries in Tel Aviv from opening on Shabbos in spite of outspoken criticism from secular bodies.

They Testify to Rabbi Lupoliansky's Integrity

Swept up in the investigation of massive bribery and other allegations involving the large Holyland apartment project in the south of Jerusalem, former Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky was convicted of "taking" bribes and sentenced to six years in jail. The judge did note that Rabbi Lupoliansky did not personally receive any money, but he insisted that he benefited nonetheless since he is the founder of the Yad Sarah organization which received the donations.

Retired Futures Executive in Japan to Honor Chiune Sugihara

Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the CME Group (formerly known as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange), went to Tokyo to honor a former Japanese consul in Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, according to a report in New York Times Dealbook.

Religions Ministry will Supervise Excavations at the Golani Intersection

A big storm erupted this past Monday in the wake of Yated Ne'eman's exposure of the extensive excavation being done at the Golani Intersection up north. Witnesses reported mountains of earth mingled with human bones strewn indiscriminately about, close to and inside burial caves, without any supervision. Following the expose, MK Rabbi Gafni met with the Deputy Minister of Religions, Eli Ben Dehaan, and Director General of the Ministry, Elchanan Glatt, who promised to arrange supervision over the work being done in the area after publicizing a public tender, as is the procedure.


HaRav Chaim Zvi Manheimer, zt"l of Ungvar, Author of Ein Habdolach


In Honor of His Yahrtzeit, 17 Tammuz (5646)

Even before the age of thirteen, Rabbeinu learned under the great rabbonim of his hometown, Verbau, HaRav Koppel Charif, and the Shaarei Torah. Already then, he was well-known for his talents and keen mind.

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Who Knows the Difference Between a Siddur and a Machzor?

by Mordecai Plaut

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon summed up a heated exchange between Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Justice Minister Tomy Lapid at last Sunday's Cabinet meeting.

Shalom had said, "It is disgusting already to hear you attacking Judaism every time we talk about Jewish issues. Don't make fun of what is important to us."


Opinion and Comment
Collaboration Between the Chareidim and the Zionists During the Holocaust

by Binyomin Y. Rabinowitz

When this article was published in the Hebrew paper about two months ago (in the issue of Acharei Mos-Kedoshim) it elicited a very large the largest reader response, since it deals with one of the lingering sore issues in Klal Yisroel: cooperation with the non-religious when life and death issues are at stake. This is certainly not the last word, but these are important documents in what is an ongoing discussion.




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