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Best of 'Late Night WEEKLY Candle-lighting/Shabbos ends Friday, May 9: 7:34/8:38 Vol. III No. 12 (#61) May 8, 2014 • 8 Iyar 5774 Free ‘We’re Climbing Up A Mountain’: Mrs. Zehava Somerstein, Manhigut Yehudit Annual Gala Commemorates Limudei Kodesh Principal Yom HaZikaron & Celebrates Yom HaAtzmaut In Queens Of Bais Yaakov Of Queens, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, MK Moshe Feiglin address enthusiastic crowd Retiring SEE P. 56-57 SEE P. 38 Shabbos Inbox A Newlywed’s Thoughts The Sefer Torah A Shabbat Thought For What It’s Worth You Misuse That Bridges Peaceful Not A Sterling Didn’t Plant That Of History Between Interludes Moment The Three “Yoms” By Eytan Kobre By Sergey Kadinsky By Rabbi David Algaze By Warren S. Hecht By Jacques R. 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With cunning of water: If both drink, they will (both) die, tal of Iran, had spent three years running could do. The Jewish Agency controlled ingenuity, he managed to whisk thirty but if only one drinks he can reach civiliza- from the dreaded Nazis, wandering from the money and the resources needed to children away from Atlit, and in a further tion. The son of Peturah taught, ‘It is better place to place, leaving behind warm and house, clothe, and feed the children, and display of his organizational creativity, he that both should drink and die, rather than safe homes, parents, and siblings, and en- although they did so in a most arrogant managed to house them in a makeshift one should behold his companion’s death.’ shack on the outskirts of Bnei Brak. Until Rabbi Akiva came and taught: ‘That With what little money he had, he your brother may live with you’ Nobody made a pitch better than the Ponovezher Rav! set up a small kitchen and bought metal (“Chayecha kodmin”) – bed frames for the beds. There was just one problem: What good are metal bed Your life takes precedence over the life of frames without mattresses, blankets, your neighbor.” during hunger, deprivation, and unbear- and heartless manner – forcing children and pillows? For these items, he knew (Bava M’tzia 62) able conditions. Now, as they finally ar- who had seen their parents killed in front he was going to have to come onto the rived in the Holy Land, the Jewish Agency of them to renounce the values their par- kind donations of his fellow Jews – and n the transit camp known as Atlit, subjected them to ideological brainwash- ents held so dear – they had the final say nobody made a pitch better than the near Haifa, groups of young children, ing. Those in control of the transit camps and the decision-making authority. Ponovezher Rav! Iorphaned survivors of the Holocaust were intent on using any method neces- One man, however, sprang into action. and Communist Russia, were brought un- sary to destroy all vestiges of Yiddishkeit The Ponovezher Rav, Rav Yosef Shlomo CONTINUED ON P. 54 der the auspices of the Jewish Agency (a from these poor souls; it was their belief non-religious organization bent on assim- that there was no place for religious ob- Rabbi Dovid Hoffman is the author of the popular “Torah Tavlin” book series, filled ilating religious youth who had grown up servance in a land that required much with stories, wit and hundreds of divrei Torah, including the brand new “Torah Tavlin in a Torah environment) with the inten- work and sweat, and they had no qualms Yamim Noraim” in stores everywhere.
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