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from The International Herald Tribune:
Prayer day planned to fund ultra-Orthodox schools
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is planning a day of prayer to encourage continued funding of its schools.
Since the onset of the global financial crisis, many donors have scaled back support and others have stopped completely.
from the ROI Community blog:
ROI Latin American Gathering Report by Yoni Gordis
What does the first ROI Regional Gathering in Latin America look like? Over dinner, I sat with three participants – one from El Salvador, one from Venezuela and one from Cuba. The topic was the tension they feel between the community’s call for them to take a leadership role and the question of how much of one’s personal life one should give to the community. In these small places, one trained leader is a huge boon and can make the difference between the community’s survival or not. The Jewish communities of Cuba and Venezuela have a great deal in common – as well as some differences.
image: Shalom BC
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Re: “Prayer day planned to fund ultra-Orthodox schools”
Take note of the following statement by Yehuda Arend,
director of the large Ateret Shlomo network of kollels:
‘Work is not an option’
“New ways?”…
“With us, this isn’t called a strategy, it’s called suicide.
This would like, because you are needy, you take your child and throw him off the roof.
The Jewish people and the world exist because of the Torah, and it is impossible to abandon the Jewish people.
Work is not an option.”
Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel