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FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
News item: Kadima head Tzipi Livni has made progress in her attempts to form a majority coalition, her aides said Thursday. Livni is attempting to convince the hareidi-religious Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) parties to join her in creating a Kadima-led government that would postpone general elections and allow her to serve as prime minister. Representatives [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The Klal Chassidus Party will be running in the Bnei Brak mayoral election, comprised of two former members of United Torah Judaism, Shlomo Kastolitz and Yehuda Marmarstein, who decided to break away from the party. Yigal Guatta formally of Shas has also decided to break away and he too is launching his own party, Yesh [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky on Monday announced he would be honoring the agreement between the Degel HaTorah and United Torah Judaism factions of Agudas Yisrael and therefore, he would not run as a candidate in the Jerusalem mayoral race against UTJ candidate Meir Porush. Responding to the report was Degel HaTorah’s Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, who was [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Uri Maklev, a former Degel HaTorah Jerusalem City Councilman, was sworn into office as a new United Torah Judaism MK, replacing Yaakov Cohen, who stepped down as per the rotation agreement between Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisrael. Cohen was expected to step down when the Knesset took its summer recess. Maklev took the oath of office [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
It is now official. MK Meir Porush of the United Torah Judaism Party will leave the Knesset and run in the Jerusalem mayoral race. The announcement was made after the directorate of Agudas Yisrael chose selected Porush as the party’s candidate. The decision is part of the rotation agreement between the two factions of UTJ, Degel [...]
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Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
MK Meir Porush was unanimously elected Monday evening as the ultra-Orthodox parties' candidate in the upcoming municipal elections in Jerusalem the United Torah Judaism faction announced. The current mayor, Uri Lupolianski, is expected to retire from politics. The UTJ faction in Jerusalem,...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Mier PorushJerusalem - MK Meir Porush was unanimously elected Monday evening as the ultra-Orthodox parties’ candidate in the upcoming municipal elections in Jerusalem – the United Torah Judaism faction announced. The current mayor, Uri Lupolianski, is expected to retire from politics. The UTJ faction in Jerusalem, which is comprised of the Hasidic Agudat Israel and the [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
In a poll conducted by the Dahaf Institute, it is learned that United Torah Judaism Jerusalem mayoral candidate Rav Meir Porush would lose the race to secular candidate and businessman Nir Barakat. The incumbent, Rav Uri Lupoliansky would tie in a race against Barakat. The weekly chareidi HaShavua newspaper, which reveals the secret poll, is calling [...]
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Lupolianski.Jerusalem - Mayor Uri Lupolianski will not run for another term in November’s municipal elections. His party, United Torah Judaism, will elect a new candidate for mayor, who will compete against Russian-Israeli billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak and his Social Justice party. At the moment, the leading candidate is Knesset Member Meir Porush. Lupolianski heads the UTJ [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It is believed that Jerusalem Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky will honor the United Torah Judaism faction coalition agreement, which calls on him to step down after he completes his term to clear the way for a delegate from the Agudah party. UTJ is composed of two parties, the Litvish Degel HaTorah Party and the Chassidish Agudas [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The agreement signed on Wednesday between the Labor and Kadima parties resulted in the postponement of the Knesset dissolution vote, a reality that abruptly ended the plan which placed United Torah Judaism MK Yaakov Litzman in line to possibly become prime minister. If the vote was taken as a no-confidence action, and a majority of MKs [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
A letter was sent to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the chief of police, calling upon them to move Thursday’s scheduled to’eva parade in Yerushalayim to an indoor venue. The Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces in their effort, along with Israel’s chief rabbis, [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
MK (United Torah Judaism) Moshe Gafne on Sunday sent a sharply-worded letter to retired justice Tova Strasburg-Cohen, the court’s ombudsperson, after she called for the dismissal of Justice Dayan Rabbi Avrohom Sherman, a 29-year veteran of the rabbinical court system and a senior Dayan today, serving on the Rabbinical Supreme Court. As reported HERE by YWN, [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
In response to harsh criticism from United Torah Judaism MK Rav Meir Porush, Transportation Minister (Kadima) Shaul Mofaz promised to suggest to the government that the necessary funds be allocated to improve the road leading to Kever Rashbi to facilitate access next year on Lag B’Omer. Mofaz stated Porush is indeed correct and the government failed [...]
