Money has no smell. A great cry of joy arose this week at Finance Minister Avraham Shochat's announcement of the significant cut of purchase tax on electrical appliances. During these hot summer days, when mental anguish about matters of state and society, and individual concerns threaten to diminish national morale in inverse proportion to the rising temperatures, Shochat's news was a breath of fresh air. Over the past two weeks there occurred two incidents that touched upon the still-open wound of the Holocaust. The first, which received worldwide notoriety, was the speech that Rav Ovadia Yosef made to his Saturday night Har Nof class, advancing a kabalistic, reincarnation-based theory as to God's reasons for the Holocaust.
Israeli teens are the unhappiest in the developed world.
At least that's the conclusion of the World Health Organization's most recent cross-national survey. And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you, but to revere the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. Hanan Ashrawi is back. In 1911, Lady Musgrave, President of the East Grinstead branch of the Anti-Suffragette League, said she was strongly against the vote being extended to women. The Jerusalem Post - All rights reserved, Click here for feedback and comments.