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British High Court: Secular Court Cannot Rule on Halachic
Matters
The Jewish Free School in London was cleared of
discrimination charges for refusing to accept a student who
is from an intermarriage and whose mother is not Jewish.
According to the London Times the father of the 11-
year-old boy sued the school for racial discrimination. The
school had refused to accept the student because he is not
halachically Jewish.
Based on figures presented this week by Nativ, the Jewish
community in the FSU is vanishing due to old age and
assimilation. According to the report more than half of the
880,000 people currently residing in these countries who are
eligible for aliyah are not Jewish according to halacha.
Rabbonim and dayanim expressed staunch opposition to a call
by Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni to ease conversion
processes and spoke out against large-scale aliyah since the
vast majority of recent immigrants are non-Jews. Livni
declared that only one in ten immigrants is Jewish.
The case of an Army engineer accused over ten years ago of
spying for Israel was the focus of a recent government
watchdog group report and is once again being pressed by
Agudath Israel of America.
Degel HaTorah of Beit Shemesh held its first board meeting on
elections preparations after selecting 45 branch members and
11 board members in internal branch elections two months
ago.
"All of the Falash Mura have already immigrated to Israel,"
claimed the Jewish Agency in a report submitted to PM Ehud
Olmert. "All those who were counted in the 1999 survey as
potential immigrants have either been brought to Israel or
their eligibility was rejected following inquiries conducted
by the Interior Ministry."
In preparation for a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee
to discuss whether nonprofit organizations contribute to the
country economically, Yad Sarah made a series of
calculations. Based on conservative estimates, it was found
that in 2007 Yad Sarah saved the state NIS 1.5 billion ($460
million) by shortening hospital stays.
Prophecy By the Gentiles? Don't Believe It by Yated Ne'eman Staff
At the beginning of this parsha, Rashi asks the
obvious question: "You may ask, why did Hashem bring His
divine Presence to rest upon such a wicked gentile? The
answer lies in the Midrash: so as not to give an
opening for the nations of the world to argue; `If we had had
prophets, we would have improved ourselves.'
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