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Letter from HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita About Verbal Abuse
The following letter was published — without any further comments — on the cover of the Musaf Shabbos Kodesh of the Yated Ne'eman, parshas Bolok, 5769.
It is well-known that in our holy Torah there are laws that relate to the relationship between a man and his Maker, and others that relate to the relationship between man and his fellowman. In the Ten Commandments there are laws that relate to the relationship between a man and his Maker and also restrictions on doing evil to his fellows.
The Knesset Education Committee gave approval on Monday to bring for a first Parliamentary reading a bill introduced by MKs Rabbi Moshe Gafni, Rabbi Uri Maklev and Rabbi Menachem Eliezer Mozes to have local councils cover the costs of electricity and water as well as secretarial, janitorial, cleaning and phone services for recognized-but-unofficial schools which means those run by Chinuch Atzmai and Maayan Hachinuch Hatorani.
Mrs. Sheina Meiselman o"h, a granddaughter of Maran HaRav Chaim Soloveitchik (the Brisker Rov) and the last living person who spent time in his presence, departed for the World to Come on Sunday, 13 Tammuz, at the age of 97.
As the summer vacation begins at many schools, Vaadas HaRabbonim Lemaan Kedushas HaShabbos is asking the general public to recall the notice maranan verabonon issued in Av 5768 (2008) urging the public to avoid recreation and vacation spots that desecrate Shabbos — even if avoidance involves added costs and inconvenience.
The Jerusalem Municipality's Legal Bureau and Licensing Department prepared an administrative closure order this week for a downtown food market that stayed open on Shabbos. Once the order is signed by Mayor Nir Barkat, it will be immediately issued to the store owner for violating the Work and Rest Hours Law.
French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie permitted the State Prosecutor's Office on Monday to file an appeal against the light sentences handed down to 15 gang members who took part in the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi Hy'd, a 23-year-old French Jew who was tortured for weeks in a basement and dumped at the roadside shortly before he died en route to the hospital two years ago.
Principals of talmudei Torah and other exempt institutions (mosdos pettur) around the country are scheduled to attend a conference in Jerusalem next week to discuss efforts to combat various decrees issued by government officials as part of their attempts to sabotage the Torah-true education system and forcibly alter the traditional approach to education handed down from generation to generation.
During a meeting at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem, arrangements were reached to set up special representative offices at several locations throughout the city to handle visa extensions for foreign yeshiva students, including those from the USA, the UK and elsewhere. Modi'in Illit's main job center for women has expanded with the opening of a new development facility for Bank Leumi and Matrix Global slated to create 50 new jobs, bringing the number of women employees at Matrix to 450 and a total of more than 1,000 at all of the employment centers established in the city in recent years.
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni has called on Attorney General Mani Mazuz "to review all of the decisions affecting Chinuch Atzmai made by Amnon De Hartoch, formerly head of the Justice Ministry's Support Payments Department," following a vitriolic article on Chinuch Atzmai written by De Hartoch and published in Ha'aretz.
Following last year's success in enrolling dozens of young men at yeshivas at the conclusion of Acheinu's Summer Vacation Yeshiva program, the organization is now continuing the outreach project first launched last summer.
Residents of Kiryat Kretchinef in Rechovot were appalled to see a maintenance crane roll into their neighborhood last Shabbos afternoon to repair a cellular antenna belonging to Celcom located adjacent to the chareidi neighborhood.
This week the Central School for Holocaust Instruction at Yad Vashem opened the largest teachers' conference ever held in Israel on the Holocaust and Holocaust instruction. Nine hundred teachers from around the country are taking part in the "From Calamity to Continuity" conference, which was opened by Education Minister Gidon Saar.
In another step by the coalition headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel intended to makes amends for the crimes of the Third Reich, a historical piece of legislation is currently being drafted to clear the names of individuals the Nazis accused of treason during World War II. The law will be brought for a parliamentary vote before the elections expected to be held in September.
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