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Nat'l-religious group, rabbis promote layered burial
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=260141
03/02/2012
Layered burial, Ne'emanei Torah Va'Avodah says, is part of the recent and ongoing struggle for social justice.
Treasury agrees to dramatic hike in city rabbis' wages
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=221860
05/23/2011
A new city rabbi will earn about 80%of what the city's director general's salary is, treasury wage chief tells Knesset Finance C'tee.
The Treasury has agreed to a dramatic increase in the salaries of new city rabbis, a senior Finance Ministry official announced Monday during a meeting of the Knesset's Finance Committee.
Debate over Kollel-student stipends goes to 'the sources'
MK Gafni: "I totally disagree with what your letter states regarding income assurance, historically but primarily halachically."
As the debate over funding for Torah study in the draft 2011/12 state budget intensifies, members of the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee received a lesson on the Jewish sources regarding that issue, courtesy of the liberal modern- Orthodox Ne'emanei Torah Ve'avodah (The Faithful of Torah and Labor) group.
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