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NEWS
Mafdal Proposes New Head of Conversion Botei Din
by Eliezer Rauchberger Eight thousand enlisted soldiers are not Jewish, the head of IDF education, Brigadier General Eliezer Stern, told the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee last week. Technology Makes Kosher Slaughter Even More Humane by Yated Ne'eman Staff The humane slaughter of agricultural animals has been improved in recent years due to consumer demands on fast-food chains and supermarkets, said Joe Regenstein, Cornell University professor of food science, as quoted in the weekly US-based newsletter Kosher Today. American Agudah Effort to Aid Jewish Families Raises Ruckusby B. Isaac An effort to help soften the blow of recent budget cuts in Israel that will disproportionately affect families with children has come under attack by two major American Jewish newspapers and some Jewish communal figures. Bais Yaakov Schools Reach Agreementby Betzalel Kahn Following several weeks of concerted efforts the Vaadas HaRabbonim LeInyonei HaSeminarim and their delegates reversed the government decree to close many seminaries and to impose quotas intended to restrict the number of teachers-in- training in the chareidi sector. MK Gafni: Chareidim Abused More Than Anyone Elseby Eliezer Rauchberger "No other sector in the State of Israel in any government ministry is subject to as much abuse as the chareidi sector and Torah institutions. On every issue and every month there is some new decree," MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni remonstrated during a Knesset plenum following a question presented by Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Yitzhak Levy (Mafdal) regarding the frequent delays in transferring budget allocations to Torah institutions. Ministry of Education Cancels General Cuts While Leaving Yeshiva Cuts Intactby Betzalel Kahn and Eliezer Rauchberger The Education Ministry canceled the latest cut planned for government schools but left the 25 percent cuts in the yeshiva budget intact, according to figures presented in an emergency meeting held by the Union of Yeshiva Managers. Nearly Half of Shuvu Yerushalayim Graduates will Go to Yeshivaby Moshe Schapiro "Before I came to this school, the Torah was something distant. It wasn't a living thing; it was more of a history book. But today, I know that the Torah is the book that contains all of the wisdom of the world and the keys to understanding. I leave this school a better person than when I came in. And it didn't happen by itself. It is all thanks to the staff." All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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