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Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit

The young man was indignant. "I have nothing against a neighborhood eruv," he told the askan who came to ask him why he had uprooted the poles that had been set up near his house. "But that was certainly not an eruv pole. Eruv poles are simple wood sticks. This was a five-inch galvanized steel pole! That is not how you make an eruv."

Why Are the Beasts Free to Wreak Havoc?
by Rav Mordechai Dov Eidelberg

"It once happened that the elders of Yerushalayim went down to their towns and proclaimed a fast . . . because wolves ate two young children on the other side of the Yarden" (Taanis 19).

The Gaping Chasm Separating the Objectives of Chareidi and Secular Education
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman

This essay provides a concise statement of the essential approach that characterizes chareidi education and how it differs from the approach followed in Western education. It should be required reading for anyone who thinks about chareidi education, which is just about anyone reading Yated Ne'eman.

Sing a New Song
by Yochonon Dovid

Itamar is an academician who became a baal teshuvoh just recently. He is brimming with a desire to learn and to know more and more. And he is full of questions, as well.

Politica: The Countdown Begins
By E. Rauchberger

Having finally won approval for the disengagement plan the Sharon Government has survived the Gaza crisis but clearly the countdown has begun, for in its current composition the government cannot last for long.


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