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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Shocking Assimilation in Israel
Data from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Population Authority of the Interior Ministry reveal, for the first time, the scope of a disquieting phenomenon: over 100,000 couples in Israel are intermarried - that is, one of the two is a non-Jew. In most cases a man is married to a non-Jewess, in which case, their children are not Jewish.
The daily Israel Today has exposed these facts for the first time, laying the blame for this upon the botei din which are lax in dealing with the conversion of minors, while it is clear that such conversion in minors of families not observing Torah and mitzvos is not valid to begin with. In this expose, self-interested groups are attempting to highlight the problem in order to force the wicked government to speed up the reform in conversion which will lower the criteria for conversion according to Halochoh to a state of what they consider "friendly, satisfactory conversion."
Yair Lapid, the man who promised a new and different politics, is clean of any stain. From day to day, he is exposed as the last of the repugnant. He allows himself to be challenged by the media. Had Netanyahu appointed a cousin to a top ranking office in the public arena, as Lapid did, the media would have pounced on him, frothing at the mouth. But when Lapid appoints his sister-in-law to a public post in the board of directors of Keren Kayemet, explaining that she would serve as a volunteer, a major columnist of the Israeli press whose keyboard didn't rest for a day during Netanyahu's tenure denouncing every action he took, has, regarding Lapid's act, written, "Lapid's answer distressed me." Not angered him, cholila, for one is forbidden to show wrath against the one who managed to get rid of Netanyahu, but sufficed with 'distressed.'
Per the directive of Torah leaders, for the past few months Yated Ne'eman has been waging a resolute battle against the trend for layered, above-ground burial, as well as against new and severe initiatives of gathering bones for burial. In the wake of a series of exposes, a widespread arousal has taken place among the Torah-observant public and even in the midst of the general public, to avoid and prevent burial in such unacceptable forms. Indeed, many questions have been brought before local rabbonim throughout the country regarding proper reburial of those already interred in the objectionable manners.
This was originally published in our print edition in 1994, 28 years ago.
Introduction
R' Boruch Ber's Torah used to pass eagerly by word of mouth throughout the European yeshiva world of ninety years ago. Today, while we possess the four volumes of his Bircas Shmuel which contain his shiurim, we are without the warmth and enthusiasm of his delivery. The language of the printed shiurim is terse and concise and much hard work must be invested in understanding the content. (Recently, several volumes of Chidushei Veshiurei Maran Rabbi Boruch Ber, have been published. These consist of notes of R' Boruch Ber's shiurim made by his talmidim, in a style that is much more easily understood.)
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