OPINION & COMMENT

The Secular Zionist Crisis

In addition to the difficulties that we all suffer and grieve -- the deaths, murders and worldwide antisemitic attacks -- the remaining secular Zionists are going through an ideological crisis. Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a former minister of justice, current MK (Meretz) and university professor, recently wrote: "A hundred years after opening the Zionist gate, secular -- not religious -- Jewish nationalism is suffering a great crisis. The sheer power of the Moslem- Arab hatred for Israel and its Jews forces despair into our hearts.

The Importance of Sheitels in our Troubled Times
by Rabbi Pesach Eliyahu Falk

The Jewish people are at present united in feelings of concern and anxiety, due to the daily distressing happenings in Eretz Yisroel. For many months there have been numerous shootings and mass bombings. These have claimed hundreds of Jewish lives and maimed many hundreds of people for life, Hashem yeracheim. Since no one knows what severe danger lurks around the corner, everyone is affected in a most immediate manner.

Preserving The Integrity Of Bais Yaakov
by HaRav Tzvi Cohen, Coordinator of the Rabbinical Committee for Beis Yaakov Seminars and Additional Study Programs

At the massive gathering of all the seminary students in Yerushalayim that was held on the last day of the shiv'oh for HaRav Shach zt'l, HaRav Yosef Efrati ylct'a, announced in HaRav Eliashiv's name that no changes should be made in the running of the Bais Yaakov seminaries and that the structure that was established by gedolei Torah when Bais Yaakov was founded, should remain.

Understanding the Background of BaHaB and Pesach Sheni
by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis

Hallel, new clothes, mitzvos, and seudas. The yomim tovim overflow with simcha. Here lies an opportunity for tremendous ascent in one's spiritual level.

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