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Despite PM Netanyahu's opposition to this, the government is looking to pass a law that would require all behavior to comply with the orders of the Chief Rabbinate at the Holy Places in Israel, including the Kotel... this would disallow women from using Torah scrolls or laying tefilling and donning tallit at the Kotel, appropriate attire, among other behaviors we have seen and some have fought over. Netanyahu is pushing for them to drop the vote on this law proposal, but so far many of the ministers are saying they are going to push it forward despite Netanyahu's opposition to it.

MK Avi Maoz (Noam) has propsoed a law that will require compliance with the Chief Rabbinate's decrees or directives at the Holy Sites, including the Kotel. Maoz would have this be punishable by up to 7 years of prison for non-compliance.

One potential side effect of passage of this law would be Jews going to Har Habayit. The Chief Rabbinate has always been opposed to Jews going to Har Habayit and has issued directives against Jewish ascent. If the law passes and Jews go up anyway, we could see frum Jews being arrested for going to Har Habayit, and that is regardless of how they act up there or what they do (until now Jews could be and were detained on Har Habayit for visibly praying or doing other "provocative" things, though this has been lessened since Minister Ben Gvir took office as Minister of National Security).

I am not sure what the official legal status of Har Habayit is in Israeli law - I think it only has status as a holy site for Muslims, not as a Jewish holy site, so that might actually be its saving grace for Jews. If it is not a holy site it might not fall under the authrity of the Chief Rabbinate. Strange that it is not considered a holy site, but that is what I understand its status is...

As far as the Kotel, where does it begin and where does it end? Will the same rules apply to the Kotel Hakattan (it should)? What about the plaza leading to the Kotel? Can the women make their minyan in the plaza without threat of arrest? if people are dressed inappropriately in the plaza can they be arrested?

At the end of the day, I cant see it being a good thing to see people arrested for praying, for not wearing stockings (if the Rabbanut decides that is appropriate attire for a holy site) or for other such behaviors. Once the genie is out of the box, not sure it will be so easy to put back in, and while the goal is against the Reform from doing their things, it will quickly affect others as well... will this take away the right for Israel to express outrage when other countries ban prayer in certain places or ban circumcision unless done in certain ways?

Rav Aharon Butbol was asked by a yeshiva bochur about the need to don a black hat and jacket for the purpose of bentching.. how necessary is it really?

Rav Butbol responded paskening that technically there is no need to wear a hat and jacket for davening. The problem is, which the hat and jacket resolves, that a head covering has to cover the majority of the head for it to be considered a valid head covering The modern bochurim wear such small kipas it has become necessary to wear a hat for davening to fulfill the halacha of having the head covered. Yeshiva bochurim, a ben torah, should wear larger kippas, specifically a size 6 or 7.

Rav Butbol said that for bentching there is a halachic preference to be "wrapped" - Ituf as we do for davening with a tallis. The jacket accomplishes the need for ituf, but it is not absolutely necessary rather only a midat chassidut.

Also, if someone accepted on himself to don his hat and jacket for bentching, after 3 times it does take the status of a neder and if one wanted to stop doing that he would need to do hatarat nedarim, unless he includes that in the hatarat nedarim done on erev Rosh Hashana. 

source: Kol B'Rama

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  -- Former Chief Rabbi Rav Shlomo Amar, regarding the idea of opening the Rabbanut tests to women

There are many people out there who think this would be a great idea and improvement....

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A municipal swimming pool just recently opened in Efrat. The designers worked hard to figure out a way to balance the desire for family swimming while also allowing for religious sensitivities against mixed swimming to be adhered to...

While most pools in such mixed communities will designate hours for mixed swimming and hours for separate swimming, in Efrat they decided to innovate and they came up with the creation of a built in mechitza that has be raised from the bottom of the pool and lowered back down when no longer needed. With the pool being 8 swimming lanes wide, the mechitza down the middle will leave four lanes for men and four for women when the wall is up.

It seems to me to be a lot of innovation for one benefit - lowering the wall for the hours of family swim makes it like any other pool with no mechitza that has hours for family swim. Raising the wall means women and men can swim at the same time but separately rather than having to schedule men at a certain time of day and women at a different time of day. I guess the same could have been accomplished by building two pools. I wonder which would have been cheaper, though the idea of a wall in the pool that goes up and down is cool.

JPost has a picture of it, though the picture just looks like a swimming pool with a wall. they should have taken a picture where you can see both sides of the pool with the wall in the middle...

  -- Rav Yitzchak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel

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Rav Tachan began discussing reckless drivers saying there is a mitzva to report such drivers as they have the status of rodef on the roads. It is not allowed to report reckless drivers, it is an obligation to report reckless drivers. Also, if you capture reckless driving ona  dashcam it is a mitzva to report it to the authorities.

What about reporting the presence of police in Waze so other drivers know police are in the area to slow down in advance or drive safer (eg put away the phone they are using, etc) - on the one hand when you report police presence it causes drivers to slowdown, which is a good thing. On the other hand, reckless drivers will use it to avoid punishment and will continue driving recklessly with nothing to deter them.

Rav Tachan paskened that the purpose of the police presence on the roads is to ensure safe driving. Helping people avoid the police is problematic. It is prohibited to help a reckless driver avoid the police and to avoid the law. Better that he should be arrested, pay his fine and learn his lesson than continuing to drive recklessly..

When someone is putting the public in danger, the concept of "moser" does not apply. A person driving recklessly can be reported without any concern of being considered a moser as he is putting the public at risk.

I would further ask, is it ok to report police as being present on a road even when they are not so as to cause reckless drivers to drive safer?

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  -- Yair Golan, Chairman of the Democrats Party

you can disagree on priroties of spending, you can be against funding settlements...but are "settlers" not working people? for the most part they are. The vast majority of them work and serve in the army

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the first to go out [to fight the terrorists]

the remains of Ran Gvilli, the last hostage remaining in Gaza, have been discovered (in a mass grave of Palestinians/terrorists), identified positively, and brought back to Israel just now for burial.

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  -- USA President Donald Trump

I know the US provided some funding and some other involvement but I thought the technology development was Israeli.. is Trump taking credit inappropriately or is he correct in some way?

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh SHapiro revealed in his new upcoming book that when being vetted as a possible candidate to run for Vice President alongside Kamala Harris in her presidential bid, the Harris team asked him if he is a double agent for Israel. This was in addition to many other questions about his relationship with Israel. 

Shapiro says in his book that when he asked about the offensive nature of the focus on Israel and specifically about being a double agent, the response was well, we have to ask...

If Josh Shapiro were theoretically a double agent of Israel, did Kamala Harris think he'd just answer yes when she asked him if he is? How could he have reassured her that he isn't? Other than his being Jewish, did they have any reason to believe he might be an agent of Israel? Did they find any indication in his behavior and decisions as governor that he might be an agent for Israel?

If you remember, at the time Shapiro denied any antisemitism in the decision to not select him as her running mate in favor of Tim Walz, who turned out to be a double agent for Somalia I guess. Good on Shapiro for burying it so his team wouldn't get hurt. His loyalty to her campaign is far more than she deserved

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There was an interesting court case in the town, or suburb, of Savyon.

The local Savyon Chabad shliach, Rav Shmuel Bistriztky, opened a Chabad house in his home. 

Over time some of his neighors did not like the Chabad house functioning in the middle of their neighborhood, on ther street or whatever, and started to file complaints against the Chabad house. they complained about the traffic it was bringing to their streets, the lack of adequate parking, causing decrease in property values, and ultimately zoning violations as the house is zoned for residential.

The municipal Planning Board that deals with land use and zoning issues discussed the complaints agaist the Chabad House and decided it was a violation of the zoning and was illegal usage of the property.

Eventually a compromise was reached between the munipality and Rabbi Bistritzky, signed off on by the courts, to disallow using a private house as a Chabad House.

Bistritzky eventually changed his mind and appealed the compromise he had previously agree to. He appealed to the courts to reverse the decision. Rav Bistritzky is concerned that this agreement would have a negative impact on Chabad Houses across the country. It might also cause roblems for anybody around Israel who might want to hos a minyan in his house - because he does not believe at all in the zoning rules and does not want his compromise to pull the rug out from anyone else who might be trying the same thing.

The attorney for the municipality responded to the court saying this was a certified and verified compromise that Rabbi Bistrizky is now trying to get out of.

Rabbi Bistritzky's attorney responded that this would set a serious precedent in Israel. Even in the Supreme Court there are minyanim and services, do you want to send us back to the times when we had to hide and pray in secret places?

source: Haredim10

The argument is funny. The Supreme Court building is not a private house in a residential neighborhood. And either there is a room designated for services in the building (like in the Knesset) or the minyanim there are ad hoc, not formalized. And, nobody is saying it is illegal to pray and forcing them to go underground - the issuze is simply zoning. Get an allocation of land designated for public use and build a Chabad House on it, or buy/take over a public building that is available. Praying is nt illegal, and an ad hoc minyan here and there in someone's house will likely be ignored. Turning a home on a quiet street into a busy public institution is the problem. 

MK Galit Sital Abtaryan's bill allowing public expression of religion has not passed yet, but even if it had I dont think it would help this case. This is simply a zoning issue regarding misuse of private property.. 

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  -- MK Meir Porush (UTJ)

Porush can always be counted on for putting on a good show in Knesset....

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