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NEWS
AN URGENT CALL TO ALL JEWS
by Mordecai Plaut In 5759 (the academic year 1998-99), a total of 109,956 talmidim, kein yirbu, learned in yeshivos, kollelim and other institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Religions according to a new report of the Central Bureau of Statistics. Vaad Warns of False Orthodox Conversionsby Betzalel Kahn The Vaad HaRabbonim LeInyonei Giyur, founded by the late HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth, av beis din of Antwerp, warned against the danger of bringing thousands of goyim into kerem Beis Yisroel through fictitious conversions performed by the Chief Rabbinate. Annual Conference Of Headteachers Of Orthodox Jewish Schoolsby Yated Ne'eman Staff Last month the Association of Headteachers of Orthodox Jewish Schools held their Annual three-day Conference at the Normandie Hotel in Bournemouth. Close to eighty participants, representing 12,000 of the approximately 15,000 schoolchildren studying at Jewish schools in Britain, gathered together to participate in a series of shiurim, lectures and brainstorming sessions on various chinuch topics. USA Shmittah Updateby Yated Ne'eman Staff Although the year after shmittah is almost half way through and many of the restrictions that apply to shmittah problems no longer apply, there is still the overhang of the spices and seasonings that were imported to the United States last year that were produced in Israel under an enhanced "hetter mechirah". Query About ConversionTo the Editor:
I am a rav in England and I work in kiruv. I am
in contact with an Israeli who was born in Rumania to a
Jewish father. He was converted in Israel at Yemin Ord
and has a stamp by the Rabbanut Yisrael on the Shtar
Giyur. It doesn't seem glatt to us here so we
wondered how to find out more. by Betzalel Kah In Yerushalayim, the righteous Rebbetzin Ettel Dina Berlin o"h, eishes chover of HaRav Elchonon Berlin and daughter of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, shlita went to her eternal resting-place. She was sixty-seven at the time of her petiroh. Thousands of bnei Torah accompanied her on her final earthly journey. HaRav Yechiel Michel Gutfarb, zt"lby Yated Ne'eman Staff As we go to press, loudspeakers are announcing the
levaya of HaRav Yechiel Michel Gutfarb, zt"l.
HaRav Gutfarb was a pillar of tzedokoh and
chesed
in Yerushalayim. His passing comes after a long illness.
by S. Bruchi Thousands of roshei yeshiva, rabbonim, talmidim of Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak residents accompanied the holy Yisrael Meir Yehiye Hy"d, to his final resting place on Sunday 26 Adar. The bochur was murdered on motzei Shabbos parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei in a terrorist attack in Netanya. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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