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Observations: This is no Altalena
By Yated Ne'eman Staff and Moshe Arens

Although more than fifty years have passed since the distressing Altalena affair when Jews killed fellow Jews on the boat called "Altalena," the subject refuses to disappear from the news.

Observations: Hakhel at the Kosel: Chillul Hashem and Bizoyon Hatorah on Chol Hamoed Succos
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Ignoring the pure Torah outlook as expressed by the gedolim, senior Shas politicians went ahead with a ceremony at the Kosel Plaza meant to recall the mitzvah of hakhel that is mandated by the Torah in other times. Figures from the secular political arena were honored, trying to give secular culture a spiritual, Jewish status.

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