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CALENDAR FOR
Parshas Voeschanan (Nachamu) 5759

Sunday, 5 Av
Shabbos, 11 Av
(July 18-24, 1999)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Rosh Hashanah, 14-20

Yerushalmi:
Moed Koton, 5-10

MISHNA YOMIS
Terumos, 4:7-5:7

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim, 137:3-141:2

Pirkei Avos: 4

Tisha B'Av falls on Thursday, July 22.

END OF FAST - TISHA B'AV

Yerushalayim and Beer Sheva: 8:13 P.M.

Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, and the entire Dan area: 8:15 P.M.

Haifa: 8:16 P.M.

Tzfas and Tiveriya: 8:14 P.M.

London: 9:51 P.M., forty-seven minutes after sunset.

According to the Chazon Ish the end of Tisha B'Av is approximately two thirds of an hour after sunset (sheki'as hamishor), but in Yerushalayim the end of the fast is earlier than this time.

(Birur Halocho Tanina, Orach Chaim 562, and Yore Dei'ah 262)

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Devorim (Chazon):
Yerushalayim:
7:10 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:25 P.M.

Parshas Voeschanan:
Yerushalayim:
7:07 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
7:22 P.M.

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Demonstrations in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, and Ramat Beit Shemesh Protest Shabbos Desecration
by Betzalel Kahn

Chareidi activists have been kept busy lately protesting against incipient Shabbos desecration taking place even throughout former bastions of Shabbos kodesh: Bnei Brak, Jerusalem and Ramat Beit Shemesh.

Rabbi Sherer, zt"l, Remembered in U.S. Senate
by B. Isaac

On Tuesday, June 29, the Senate's morning session was opened with a prayer by a visiting chaplain, Rabbi Shimshon Sherer, whose late father, Agudas Yisroel of America's leader, Rabbi Moshe Sherer, zt"l, was the subject of a number of senatorial tributes that followed shortly afterward.