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REFORM & CONSERVATIVES | GRAVES | WOMEN IN JUDAISM
| GIYUR | LEGAL ISSUES | LEV L'ACHIM | YESHIVA DRAFT | CULTURE WARS - MISCELLANEOUS | CULTURE WARS - MONEY | CULTURE WARS - SHABBOS | LIVING JUDAISM

REFORM & CONSERVATIVES

Assimilation Rate In South Africa Remains Low, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Reform Jews In South Africa Withering Away, Parshas Pinchos 5760

Or Etzion Conversion Court Defies the Gedolim to Appease the Reform, Parshas Pinchos 5760

Gedolei Yisroel Decry Court Intervention in Halocho and Tradition, Parshas Behaasloscha 5760

Reform-Orthodox Row Rocks Jewish Cape Town, Parshas Behaasloscha 5760

Judicial System Continues to Undermine Jewish Nature of the State of Israel, Parshas Behaasloscha 5760

Knesset Weighs Bill to Jail Women for Desecrating the Kosel, Parshas Nasso 5760

U.S. Aguda: Kosel Ruling a Travesty, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

High Court Decision to Force Reform and Conservative Women on the Kosel, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

Jerusalem Religious Council Says: "We Will Never Sit with Representatives of Heretical Movements", Parshas Emor 5760

Conservatives Cannot Claim Halachic Conformity, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Truth and Peace, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Australian Court Supports Orthodox School for not Accepting Reform Convert, Parshas Pekudei 5760

Dividing the Jewish People -- the Reform Way, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Friendly Words From a Surprising Place, Parshas Voeira 5760

Any MK Receiving Money From Reform Cannot Vote on Topics Pertaining to Movement, Parshas Chaye Soro 5760

Sarid to Provide "Corrective" Treatment for Conservatives and Reform in Schools, Parshas Vayero 5760

Yossi Sarid Encourages Heresy in the Schools, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

The Reform Movement's Invasion of Eretz Yisroel, Succos 5760

Can British Reform still be considered a Jewish movement?, Succos 5760

Surprise Ending, Parshas Voeschanan 5759

Jewish Demography -- 5759 (1999), Parshas Achrei-Kedoshim 5759

Jewish Demography -- 5759 (1999), Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5759

Thinking About the Antireligious Minority, Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5759

Black Hats, Bad Guys, Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5759

About Cooperation with Conservative, Reform -- and So-called Orthodox, Parshas Tzav 5759

Jerusalem Religious Council Suspended, Parshas Vayikro 5759

Rabbinate: Do Not Meet with Reform, Parshas Ki Siso 5759

Common Sense and Common Ground, Parshas Terumah 5759

What Are the Key Points in the Struggle Against the Reform?, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

New Am Echad Hasbara Effort Shifts into High Gear, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Knesset Protects Religious Councils, Parshas Yisro 5759

Reform Men and Women In Provocation at the Kosel, Parshas Yisro 5759

UTJ Representatives Boycott the Religious Council Meeting in Haifa, Parshas Beshalach 5759

Vote-Buying Scandal - Reform Admits It Bribes MKs Who Vote Their Way, Parshas Voeira 5759

High Court Rules That Haifa Religious Council Must Meet; Rabbi Ravitz Protests, Parshas Voeira 5759

Bill to Bar Reform From Religious Councils Postponed, Parshas Voeira 5759

Admor of Novominsk Appointed Head of Agudas Yisroel of America, Parshas Vayishlach 5759

Chief Rabbi Sacks Must Decide, Parshas Vayishlach 5759

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GRAVES

No Let Up in Controversy Over Prague Graves, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Broken Tombstones and Grave Robberies in Eastern Europe, Parshas Re'eh 5760

Court Petition Against Prague Cemetery Desecration, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

On Our Ancestors' Dead Bodies, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Prague Cemetery Agreement Breaks Down; Czech Minister Insults Jewish Preservation Efforts, Parshas Pinchos 5760

Bones in Basement of Hadassah Await Final Resting Place, Parshas Pinchos 5760

Archaeologists Destroy Haifa Burial Cave, Parshas Bolok 5760

Large Bayis Sheini Burial Cave Near Mount Scopus Desecrated, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

Burial Cave at the Entrance to Haifa Desecrated, Parshas Bo 5760

Antiquities Authority Damages Yeshiva's Temporary Buildings, Parshas Vayechi 5760

Proof: Antiquities Authority Uses Human Bones for Research, Parshas Vayigash 5760

Antiquities Authority Empties Burial Cave, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Meeting of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Shameful Grave Desecration in Shoham, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Shameful Grave Desecration in Shoham, Parshas Noach 5760

Annual Appeal for the Association for the Prevention of Grave Desecration, Succos 5760

Director of the Antiquities Authority Insists on Destruction of Lachish Burial Cave, Parshas Devorim 5759

Archaeologists Arrested for Refusing Police Orders: Tense Struggle at the Site, Parshas Pinchas 5759

Ancient Bones Desecrated by Archaeologists are Reburied, Parshas Bolok 5759

Do You Have to be Religious to Respect the Dead?, Parshas Korach 5759

Volunteers Bury Bones Unearthed at Elad-Mazor, Parshas Korach 5759

Desecration of Graves Continues in Elad-Mazor, Parshas Shelach 5759

Archaeological "Rescue" Excavations Impede the Saving of Lives, Parshas Beha'alosecho 5759

Demand to Cease the Display of Ancient Coffins in the Tower of David Museum, Parshas Beha'alosecho 5759

Antiquities Authority Desecrates Har Zeisim Burial Cave, Parshas Tzav 5759

Last Graves In Burial Cave Looted By Archaeologists; New Legislation Referred to Finance Committee, Parshas Beshalach 5759

Archaeologists Defy Order Not To Disturb Burial Cave; Antiquities Authority Rapped For Housing Delays, Parshas Voeira 5759

Archaeologists Desecrate Jewish Graves Under The Cover of Shabbos, Parshas Shemos 5759

Israeli Education Minister Proposes Law Obligating Property Owners to Pay for Rescue Excavations, Parshas Vayeishev 5759

Important High Court Decision:
Landowners Not Required To Fund Archaeological Excavations, Parshas Vayishlach 5759

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WOMEN IN JUDAISM

Song of Ascent - Part II, Parshas Eikev 5760

NOSTALGIA - Who Says What?, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Song of Ascent - An Interview with an American Immigrant, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Heart to Heart Talks, Parshas Chukas 5760

NOSTALGIA: Grandchildren Near and Far, Parshas Shelach 5760

Directed Love, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

Easier to Love, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

High Court Decision to Force Reform and Conservative Women on the Kosel, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

Tuna Patties Revisited, Parshas Emor 5760

The Breakfast Nook, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

BOOK REVIEW: Special Child - Special Parent, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Attic Cleaning, Parshas Metzora 5760

Light the Lamp of Shabbos!, Parshas Shemini 5760

The Empty Nest and the Big Pot, Parshas Shemini 5760

Unconventional Matchmaking, Parshas Shemini 5760

True Love - Another VeNehapach Hu, Parshas Vayikra 5760

Parnossa, Emuna and Living in Eretz Yisroel, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

How to Become a True Princess, Parshas Terumah 5760

Through Eyes That Shine, Parshas Bo 5760

Battle of the Spirit in Tzoran, Parshas Shemos 5760

The Hidden World
Challenge, Adventure and Pleasure in Giving, Parshas Vayechi 5760

How You Slice It - or - 'Davendik', Parshas Vayechi 5760

Pacing and Leading in Communications, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Three Tears By the Well..., Parshas Chaye Soro 5760

Rights vs. Right: Entitlements or Obligations?, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Sefer Torah, Succos 5760

A Challenge That Is Its Own Reward, Parshas Nitzovim - Vayelech 5759

The First Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Ruchoma Altusky, o"h, Parshas Nitzovim - Vayelech 5759

Chessed Shel Emess, Parshas Ki Seitzei 5759

Loving Chezky - A Mother and Son On Two Separate Wavelengths, Parshas Re'ei 5759

Loving Chezky, Parshas Eikev 5759

The Goal and Duty of Jewish Women, Parshas Korach 5759

Bessie Baalabusta, Parshas Bamidbar 5759

He Frees Agunos, Parshas Achrei-Kedoshim 5759

Friday Morning Challos, Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5759

Rebbetzin Soro Pesha Ben-Menachem o"h, Parshas Yisro 5759

Wedding, Parshas Beshalach 5759

Refoel's Story, Parshas Bo 5759

The Emptying Cart, Parshas Shemos 5759

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GIYUR

Education Ministry Closes Conversion Network, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5760

Or Etzion Conversion Court Defies the Gedolim to Appease the Reform, Parshas Pinchos 5760

When the Parents of the Converts Need Converting, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

IDF Offers Quick Conversion Course, Parshas Tazria 5760

Welcome the True Geirim, Parshas Shemini 5760

Beis Din For Azerbaijan Immigrants Founded, Parshas Vayikra 5760

Australian Court Supports Orthodox School for not Accepting Reform Convert, Parshas Pekudei 5760

Future of Joint Conversion Institutes in Doubt, Parshas Bo 5760

A Call To Save Our Pure Yichus, Parshas Voeira 5760

False Charges Against Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Klein, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Big Bucks in European "Conversions", Parshas Toldos 5760

Vaad LeInyonei Giyur Condemns Eretz Chemda Beis Din, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Protest Increased Aliya of Non-Jews from the C.I.S, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Conversion Industry Booming, Parshas Bereishis 5760

RCA Beth Din Interferes in Local Rabbinical Affairs in Hong Kong and Berlin, Parshas Bereishis 5760

Conversion Industry in Or Etzion Defies the Guidelines of Chief Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, Rosh Hashan 5760

Joint Conversion Institutes Have no Students, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

Be on Guard, Parshas Ki Sovo 5759

Conversion Tidings, Parshas Ki Seitzei 5759

A Demonstration Against Allowing Wholesale Non-Jewish Immigration, Parshas Eikev 5759

A Virtual Jew?, Parshas Bolok 5759

The Conversion Administration Has Six Special Courts, Parshas Achrei-Kedoshim 5759

"Conversion" Institute Opens Doors in Carmiel, Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5759

Chief Rabbinate Will Not Recognize Conversion of Adopted Child, Parshas Vayikro 5759

Quickie Conversion Flouts Chief Rabbi's Ruling, Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei 5759

Easy Conversion is an Escape from Judaism, Not a Way In, Parshas Beshalach 5759

Director of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Courts Criticizes Av Beis Din of Jerusalem, Parshas Bo 5759

Conversion Law with Ne'eman Recommendations Rejected by Knesset Law Committee, Parshas Shemos 5759

A Judge in Jerusalem Orders That Non-Jews with Reform and Conservative "Conversions" be Registered as Jews, Parshas Shemos 5759

Knesset Committee To Discuss Ne'eman Committee Decisions, Parshas Vayechi 5759

Checking Conversions, Parshas Vayigash 5759

Falash Mura Immigrants from Ethiopia Will Have to Undergo Full Conversion, Parshas Vayigash 5759

Chief Rabbi Sacks Must Decide, Parshas Vayishlach 5759

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LEGAL ISSUES

Elyagon Will Not be Promoted, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

The Judiciary Must be Free of Even an Appearance of Bias, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Court Blocks Lev L'Achim Community Center in Rechovot, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Yeshiva Student To Receive NIS 90,000 for Police Beating, Parshas Eikev 5760

Barak Tries to Appoint Elyagon to the Regional Court, Parshas Eikev 5760

Fire Starters, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

They Blindly Follow the High Court of "Just Us", Parshas Bolok 5760

Proposal Approved to Allow Rabbinical Courts to Hear Cases on Monetary Issues, Parshas Shelach 5760

Gedolei Yisroel Decry Court Intervention in Halocho and Tradition, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Judicial System Continues to Undermine Jewish Nature of the State of Israel, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

High Court Halts Elad Benefits, Parshas Nasso 5760

High Court Justices End Term of Karta Director, Parshas Nasso 5760

Knesset Weighs Bill to Jail Women for Desecrating the Kosel, Parshas Nasso 5760

U.S. Aguda: Kosel Ruling a Travesty, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

Judicial Activism Strikes Again, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

High Court Decision to Force Reform and Conservative Women on the Kosel, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

The Court Fulfilled the Expectations for It, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Judicial Tyranny, Parshas Pekudei 5760

Chinuch Atzmai Rejects High Court Intervention, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

How Do We Teach the High Court the Limits?, Parshas Terumah 5760

Barak: Constitution Should Be Enacted Only by Consensus, Parshas Mishpotim 5760

Justice Ministry to Investigate Justice Elyagon's Remarks About a Handicapped Lawyer, Parshas Bo 5760

Basic Law Bill Proposed In Knesset, Parshas Bo 5760

Former Supreme Court Justice Elon Criticizes Barak Court Activism, Parshas Shemos 5760

Barak: Court Has the Right to Abrogate Law and Deal with Values, Parshas Vayechi 5760

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Benefits to Religious Schools, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Secular Legal Expert Assails High, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

MKs Tell High Court To Back Off Contentious Issues, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

The High Court Cannot be Society's Moral Authority, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

The High Court Orders the Religious Affairs Ministry to Change its Criteria and Support the Conservative Movement, Parshas Noach 5760

Only Left Can Undermine the Rule of Law By Changing Basic Law, Parshas Voeschanan 5759

Contempt of Court Indictment Against Attorney Dror Choter- Yishai Canceled, Parshas Bha'alosecho 5759

High Court Removes Hinderences to Marrying Foreigners, Parshas Bamidar 5759

We Support Democracy, Parshas Behar-Bechukosai 5759

Judicial Ethics, Parshas Tzav 5759

Israel Bar Chief Challenges Court, Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei 5759

Downtown Yerushalayim Drugstore Opens on Shabbos, Parshas Tetzaveh 5759

Aerial Photography Expert Estimates: Only 8,867 People Attended the Leftist Rally in Sacher Park, Parshas Tetzaveh 5759

The Judges Refuse to be Judged, Parshas Terumah 5759

Why Are we Afraid of the Bagatz? -- Important High Court Statistics Complied by Manof

State Prosecutor: No Investigation Against Anti-Religious Am Chofshi, Parshas Terumah 5759

Former High Court Judge: Court Wary of Re-Trials, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Protecting the Honor of Torah- Observant Jews, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Dismiss Oded Alyagon : Israeli Judge Unleashes Attack on Those Who Dare to Differ, Parshas Yisro 5759

The German Tradition of the Israeli High Court, Parshas Voeira 5759

Rabbi Meir Porush: "Judges Should be Elected", Parshas Voeira 5759

A Judge in Jerusalem Orders That Non-Jews with Reform and Conservative "Conversions" be Registered as Jews, Parshas Shemos 5759

The Kibbutzim Deceive The Courts, Parshas Vayechi 5759

A Legal Perspective
Attorney About the Decision to Allow Kibbutzim to Work on Shabbos: "The Entire Ruling is Mistaken", Parshas Vayigash 5759

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LEV L'ACHIM

Israeli Factory Mixes Schnitzels with Scientology, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5760

Lev L'Achim's Tel Aviv Outreach Efforts Meet With Unparalleled Success, Parshas Chukas 5760

Highlights of the Lev L'Achim Rally, Parshas Emor 5760

Annual Lev L'Achim Gathering Held in Bnei Brak, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Lev L'Achim's Midrasha Gives Jewish Identity to Young Israeli Women, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Lev L'achim's Fight Against Missionaries in Israel, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Jerusalem Demonstration Against Missionary Activity, Parshas Bo 5760

Lev L'Achim Activists Prevented Missionary Activity on Chanukah, Parshas Vayigash 5760

Lev L'Achim Jerusalem Offices Dedicated, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Lev L'Achim Wages Battle Against Scientology Cult, Parshas Bereishis 5760

Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky & American Rabbonim View P'eylim/Lev L'Achim Activities in Eretz Yisroel, Succos 5760

The Voice of Israel, Parshas Devorim 5759

Rabbi Tzvi Schwartz Vs. the Reform Movement, Parshas Bolok 5759

Gedolei Eretz Yisroel Call for Renewed Enrollment Campaign, Parshas Korach 5759

Gedolim of Eretz Yisroel Endorse P'eylim / Lev L'Achim's Registration Campaign, Parshas Shelach 5759

Who Really Won?, Parshas Shelach 5759

Halachic Ruling Redefines Role of Kiruv Work in Eretz Yisroel, Parshas Achrei-Kedoshim 5759

Letting the Children Speak for Themselves, Parshas Tzav 5759

Rabbi Tzvi Schwartz -- Rechovot's "King", Parshas Vayikro 5759

The Power of Mishloach Manos, Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei 5759

Lev L'Achim Uncovers a Dangerous Cult in Netanya, Parshas Ki Siso 5759

England's Committee for the Rescue of Immigrant Children in Israel: Fifty Years of Mesiras Nefesh in the Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Does Uncle David Really Want Us? / Interesting responses to the thoughtful article by Moshe Schapiro about his experiences in the Israeli Army, Parshas Yisro 5759

P'eylim / Lev L'Achim Addresses the Dropout Problem in Israeli Torah Community: Lev Shomea Division Hotline Serves As Lifeline For Troubled Youth, Parshas Beshalach 5759

Lev L'Achim's One Hundred Meter Siyum -- An Electrifying Experience, Parshas Bo 5759

HaRav Aharon Leib Steinman and the Novominsker Rebbe Address Lev L'Achim Rally in Israel's South, Parshas Shemos 5759

Lev L'Achim -- A Grass-Roots Kiruv Movement, Parshas Vayechi 5759

New Torah School in Israel Vandalized by Anti-Religious Fanatics, Parshas Vayigash 5759

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YESHIVA DRAFT

Bnei Torah -- Our Main Concern, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Special Committee To Prepare Draft Law Approved, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5760

Showing their True Colors?, Parshas Bolok 5760

Yeshiva Draft Bill Passes First Knesset Reading, Parshas Chukas 5760

UTJ Statement After Passage of the Draft Law, Parshas Chukas 5760

UTJ Representatives Will Demand That the Law Be Amended, Parshas Chukas 5760

The Secular Draft Dodgers, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Tal Committee Will Present its Conclusions to Barak Within Ten Days, Parshas Vayikra 5760

Tal Committee Chareidi Representatives Walk Out, Parshas Vayishlach 5760

Draft Committee Behind Schedule, the Same Aim, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Different Methods, the Same Aim, Parshas Noach 5760

Committee for the Prevention of the Draft of Yeshiva Students is Appointed, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

Negotiating and Signing the Agreement Between UTJ and Ehud Barak, Parshas Matos - Masei 5759

Immigrants 25 and Over are Not Drafted Due to Budgetary Considerations, Parshas Bolok 5759

Drafting Yeshiva Students, Parshas Chukas 5759

Yisrael Ba'Aliyah: "Conscription of Yeshiva Students Must be Decided by Means of Negotiation, Parshas Beha'alosecho 5759

When Soccer is More Important Than Torah, Parshas Terumah 5759

Uncle David Wants You, Parshas Voeira 5759

The Ultimate Objective in Drafting Yeshiva Students -- Uprooting the Torah, Parshas Vayechi 5759

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CULTURE WARS - MISCELLANEOUS

Beilin Explains the "Secular Revolution", Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Agudas Yisroel Takes ADL to Task for Criticizing Lieberman, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Incitement Over a Street Name, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Religious Affairs Ministry to be Dismantled This Month, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Barak, the Pathetic King, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

The Battle For and Against Shmitta Observance, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Assimilation Rate In South Africa Remains Low, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Orthodox Representatives Share Thoughts with the World, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Barak Launches Diversionary Culture War, Parshas Re'eh 5760

Rabbinical Groups Asked Not to Certify Hetter Mechirah Produce, Parshas Re'eh 5760

The Israeli Media Lives in a World of It's Own, Parshas Re'eh 5760

Constitution Above All, Parshas Re'eh 5760

Halachic Ruling Bans Tourist Visits To Chareidi Neighborhoods on Shabbos, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Chevra Kadisha Accuses Abu Kabir Institute of Organ Theft, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Beis Din for Problems in Computer Usage Warns Against CD- ROM Discs, Parshas Devarim 5760

Beilin Would Dismantle Religious Affairs Ministry, Parshas Devarim 5760

Katsav, Likud Candidate, is Elected President of Israel, Parshas Devarim 5760

Israeli Factory Mixes Schnitzels with Scientology, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5760

Slanted Reporting: Using a Scientific Study to Attack Modest Dress, Parshas Chukas 5760

Education Ministry Withholds Summer Security Subsidy in Talmudei Torah, Parshas Chukas 5760

Torah Scrolls Desecrated in French Hill Synagogue, Parshas Shelach 5760

The More Children the Better, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Special Rabbinical Committee To Fight Jerusalem Arena Project, Parshas Nasso 5760

What's Bothering Them?, Parshas Nasso 5760

Religious Teachers To Boycott Education Ministry Convention In Non-Kosher Hotel, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

The Danger of Secular Control of Eretz Yisroel, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

They See What They Want Us to See and Hear What They Want Us to Hear, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

Just Another Day?, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

The Mark of Zuroff, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

We Are One! Parshas Bechukosai 5760

Lessons for Life, Parshas Emor 5760

Worldwide Protest Against Indecent Advertising, Parshas Emor 5760

The Court Fulfilled the Expectations for It, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Will We Gain By Compromising on Religious Issues?, Parshas Tazria 5760

One More Victory Like This..., Parshas Tazria 5760

Attorney General Opens a Criminal Investigation of HaRav Ovadia Yosef, Parshas Shemini 5760

...And Here is the News... Horror! .... Poster Defaced!, Parshas Vayikra 5760

U.S. Aguda to High Court: Morality Has Legal Meaning, Parshas Pekudei 5760

Knesset Approves UTJ Law for Torah Study in State Schools, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Aguda: Yeshivos and Kehillos Deserve Part of Swiss Bank Settlement, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Battle For the "Heter Mechiroh", Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Gedolei HaTorah in America Join Gedolei HaTorah of Eretz Yisroel's Internet Warning, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Knesset Criticizes Interior Minister's Permission for Consular Marriages, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Doing the Duty of Yated Ne'eman, Parshas Terumah 5760

Gafni: Chess Clubs Have Entrance Criteria, Why not Judaism?, Parshas Mishpotim 5760

Violence in Modern Society, Parshas Mishpotim 5760

Proposed Cancellation of Nationality Clause on Identity Cards Rejected, Parshas Yisro 5760

Right Foot Forward, Parshas Beshalach 5760

Clarifications and Elaborations of the Internet Ruling, Parshas Beshalach 5760

Satanic Cult Symbols Sprayed on Jerusalem Synagogue, Parshas Beshalach 5760

Daas Torah: Do Not Use the Internet, Parshas Bo 5760

What is Wrong with the Internet?, Parshas Bo 5760

Da'as Torah and a Stern Warning, Parshas Bo 5760

According to Kol Ha'ir: Barak to Mrs. Clinton: Lapid Can Teach You How to Handle Chareidim, Parshas Voeira 5760

Efi Fein Isn't Being Promoted Because He is Religious, Parshas Vayechi 5760

Swastikas Sprayed on Synagogue Walls in Kiryat Motzkin, Parshas Vayechi 5760

The Need to Set Up a Jewish Identity Database, Parshas Vayigash 5760

MK Rabbi Gafni: Much Mistreatment of Religious Soldiers, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Jerusalem Rabbonim Decry Video Trend, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Knesset Rejects Two Shinui Anti-Religious Bills, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Unprecedented Anti-Chareidi Violence in Beit Shemesh, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

Thousands Gather to Hear Gedolim on Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

Terrible Incitement Against the Chareidi Community, Parshas Vayishlach 5760

Shuvu Students Questioned by Police in Nahariya for "Truancy", Parshas Vayishlach 5760

It Is From Hashem, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Time Magazine Taken To Task For Anti-Chareidi Article, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Women Who Participate in Unsupervised Enrichment Courses Will Not be Employed By Chareidi School Systems, Parshas Toldos 5760

Shinui Opposes Benign Bill Just to Spite Chareidim, Parshas Toldos 5760

Anti-religious Elements Seek to Prevent Operation of Bayit Vegan Pool, Parshas Toldos 5760

A Secular Jew's View of the Jewish People, Parshas Toldos 5760

Beersheba Court Rejects Pork Shop Owners' Appeal, Parshas Chaye Soro 5760

Anti-Chareidi Budgetary Discrimination All Over the Map, Parshas Chaye Soro 5760

A Secular Jew's View of the Jewish People, Parshas Chaye Soro 5760

The Struggle for Shabbos 50 Years Ago -- On Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, They Got up from Shiva - part II, Parshas Vayero 5760

Chareidi Representatives in Yerushalayim To Oppose Funding Of Arena Project, Parshas Vayero 5760

Torah World Deprivation Discussed in Knesset, Parshas Vayero 5760

Rabbi Gafni: Freedom of Speech is a Code Word for Offense to the Religious Community, Parshas Vayero 5760

The Struggle for Shabbos 50 Years Ago -- On Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, They Got up from Shiva - part I, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Vandals Who Defaced Synagogues in Bnei Brak are Caught, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Minister Sharansky Signs Amendment Enabling Tel Aviv Shabbos Commerce, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

Turbine Transfer Turmoil, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

The Jewish People are Truly Believers, Parshas Lech Lecho 5760

The Government Has Decided to Cancel Rental Subsidies for Avreichim and the Special Grants in Elad-Mazor, Parshas Noach 5760

Who Really Knows Psychology?, Parshas Noach 5760

Employment of a Teacher who did Teshuvah Causes School Strike, Succos 5760

Technion Professor: "The Dossim Should Be Thrown into the Sea", Succos 5760

Based on the Law of Return: The Non- Jewish Agency?, Succos 5760

Forced to See the Truth, Succos 5760

Education Minister Plans Major Reforms in State Jewish Studies Programs, Rosh Hashana 5760

A Shabbos Beating, Rosh Hashana 5760

Jerusalem Municipality Leftists Oppose Karta Parking Lot Shabbos Closure, Rosh Hashana 5760

Turbine Coalition Crisis Averted at the Last Minute; Weekday Solution Reported At Hand, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

Albert Cohen, the Manager of the Turbine Transfer Project, Talks to Yated Ne'eman, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

A Group of Youngsters from Hapoel Petach Tikvah Were Forced to Eat Treif, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

Shabbos Should Unify Jews, not Divide Them, Parshas Nitzavim - Vayelech 5759

Last Shabbos No Turbine Part was Transported, Parshas Ki Sovo 5759

Rabbi Gafni Warns on Y2K Shabbos Desecration, Parshas Ki Seitzei 5759

Turbine Tempest -- the Latest Shabbos Outrage, Parshas Ki Seitzei 5759

Teshuvah is Legal at Tel Aviv Cultural Center; Chareidi Activist Stabbed by Leftist Thug, Parshas Shoftim 5759

Protests Against Bank Mizrachi Machines Working on Shabbos, Parshas Shoftim 5759

Huge Turbine Move Becomes Latest Public Cultural Battle, Parshas Shoftim 5759

Police Officials Say Meretz Activists Unnecessarily Provocative on Shabbos, Parshas Re'ei 5759

Utensils Manufactured by the Phoenicia Glass Company of Yeruchom Require Tevillo, Parshas Re'ei 5759

Bank Hamizrachi Will Operate Its ATMs on Shabbos, Parshas Re'ei 5759


CULTURE WARS - MONEY

Beilin Would Dismantle Religious Affairs Ministry, Parshas Devarim 5760

UTJ MKs force Finance Ministry to Meet its Commitments, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

High Court Halts Elad Benefits, Parshas Nasso 5760

Shocking Discrimination in Ashdod Budget, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

Tax Sanctions on Businesses Operating in Illegal Buildings, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

TRabbi Ravitz Demands End to Discrimination Against Chareidim on Government Corporation Boards, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

The Justice Minister Arouses a Storm in Saying that Large Families are Not a Blessing, Parshas Metzora 5760

Our Corruption is in the Eye of the Beholders, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

What Chareidim Give & Take From the Israeli Economy, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Billions Paid in Excess Salaries to Public Servants, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Rabbi Ravitz: We Must "Blackmail" for What Everyone Else Gets Automatically!, Parshas Voeira 5760

UTJ Makes Impressive Achievements in the Budget, Parshas Shemos 5760

Self-Imposed Poverty or Secular Arbitrariness?, Parshas Shemos 5760

Chareidi Chinuch Receives a Quarter of What it Deserves, Parshas Vayechi 5760

City of Jerusalem Plans Big Cut in Chareidi Education, Parshas Vayechi 5760

Battle to Stop Financial Discrimination Against Chareidim in Ashdod, Parshas Vayechi 5760

Israel Poverty Population Passes One Million, Parshas Vayechi 5760

Pressure and Persuasion, Parshas Vayigash 5760

Rabbi Gafni Warns Against Cuts in Torah and Religious Services Budgets, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Battle to Stop Deprivation of Chareidim in Ashdod, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Intel Refuses to Employ Shomrei Shabbos Workers, Parshas Toldos 5760

Fair Politics, Parshas Toldos 5760


CULTURE WARS - SHABBOS

Public Awareness of the Shomer Shabbos Vacation SitesIncreases, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Meretz Acting Minister to Prevent the Opening of HerzliahMall on Shabbos, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Shomer Shabbos Paper Factory Dedicated in KiryatGat, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Airport Authority Issues, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Labor Ministry To Enforce Work and Rest Law, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Ashdod Residents Prevent Massive Shabbos Desecration, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Dale Company Joins Ranks of Big- Time Shabbos Desecraters, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Tax Sanctions on Businesses Operating in Illegal Buildings, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

Public Shabbos Desecration in Rechovot, Parshas Emor 5760

Papal Visit To Cause Massive Shabbos Desecration, Parshas Yisro 5760

Mishmeres HaShabbos of Haifa Causes Cancellation of Merchant Meeting on Shabbos, Parshas Shemos 5760

Council for Shabbos Founded in Haifa, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Extensive Shabbos Desecration Prevented in the Ashkelon Power Station, Parshas Vayeitzei 5760

Shabbos Status Quo Threatened in Haifa Mall, Parshas Toldos 5760

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LIVING JUDAISM

53,000 Students in Bnei Brak Schools -- Biggest System in Dan Region, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

The Four Amos of Halocho, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

The Four Amos of Halocho, Parshas Shoftim 5760

The Torah Universe: Singing Horses and Mules, Parshas Eikev 5760

Happiness and Wealth, Parshas Eikev 5760

"A Rod for the Fool's Back" (Mishlei 26:3), Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

POMEGRANATE SEEDS, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

Valuable Advice from HaRav Chaim Kanievsky and HaRav Yehuda Shapira, Parshas Bolok 5760

Judaism is a Family-Based Way of Life, Parshas Chukas 5760

Rabbi Ravitz Proposes a Prayer Break for Workers, Parshas Shelach 5760

Shema Yisroel Yad Vashem Tov Center To Open in Jerusalem, Parshas Nasso 5760

Shavuos, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

The Spirit of All Flesh, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

The Special Elevating Nature of Shabbos, Parshas Emor 5760

Life Insurance For Chareidim at Minimal Rates, Parshas Metzora 5760

Partner Communications To Grant Tens of Thousands of Shekels to Chessed Organizations, Parshas Metzora 5760

Giving Thanks for Great Miracles and for Daily Life, Parshas Metzora 5760

The Removal of the Ring, Parshas Shemini 5760

The Honor of Giving: New Leaflet By Vaad HaRabbonim LeInyonei Tzedoko, Parshas Shemini 5760

Cellcom Distributes Cellular Telephones to Special Gemachs Throughout the Country, Parshas Vayikra 5760

Letter from HaRav Shmuel Wosner About Smoking, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Letter of the Rabbonim on the Subject of Wedding Expenses, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Rabbonim Ask to Minimize Wedding and Marriage Expensesg, Parshas Vayakhel 5760

Gedolei Yisroel Warn Against Smoking, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Letter of Gedolei Yisroel Against Smoking, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

It is a Mitzva to Confiscate Fireworks and Combustibles from Children -- Beis Din Would have Struck Children Who Frighten Others [In this Manner], Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Police: "Report Tefillin Thefts", Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

Prominent Roshei Yeshiva Meet About Limiting Wedding Expenses, Parshas Yisro 5760

Am Echad VIP Delegation to Eretz Yisroel, Parshas Bo 5760

They Celebrate New Year; We Keep Shabbos, Parshas Voeira 5760

Go Reconfigure!, Parshas Voeira 5760

Bnei Brak OK for Y2K, Parshas Shemos 5760

Work To Marry off the Children Joyfully and Honorably, Parshas Shemos 5760

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