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Head of Mercaz Harav yeshiva's youth department Rabbi Yerachmiel Weiss speaking at a ceremony commemorating the victims of last week's terror attack. (Daniel Bar On / Jini) Last update - 20:56 13/03/2008 Jerusalem yeshiva commemorates 8 students slain in terror attack By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, Mercaz Harav  Mercaz Harav yeshiva held on Thursday a mass memorial service for its eight students who were killed by a Palestinian gunman last week. Addressing hundreds of his followers, yeshiva head Rabbi Yerachmiel Weiss said that "our hearts refuse to come to terms [with the loss], the pain only deepens. All we can do is manage the pain." Referring to recent reports of rabbis urging 'measure for measure' revenge, Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger, who also spoke at the ceremony, said that "we hear calls that are not in line with the way we were brought up. Underground organizations of any kind are unwarranted, according neither to the Halakha nor to any other worldview. The call should be aimed at the government and the prime minister, to do anything so that the killers and their friends are brought to justice, literally." Advertisement The brother of the slain student Yehonatan Yitzchak Eldar said that "it is unacceptable that time after time, whenever terrorists raise their hands to attack Jews, no one gets in their way." "We live in an absurd reality, in which the legal system was able to approve the expulsion of thousands of religious families and the demolition of their homes, but fails to do the same to the family of the despicable terrorist who killed the students," he added. Rabbi Elishav Avihayil, the father of Segev Pniel Avihayil who was also killed, said that "the killers brought a terrible disaster upon us, but at the same time strengthened our spirit of unity and steadfastness, which we tend to overlook. This spirit should be disseminated to the entire people of Israel." Related articles: 8 die in terror attack on J'lem yeshiva Mercaz Harav - the flagship of national-religious yeshivas ANALYSIS: Gazans see attack on yeshiva as unusual achievement Body of yeshiva gunman buried in private East J'lem ceremony Bookmark to del.icio.us   Hezbollah scare Lebanese group's influence has dramatically increased in the West Bank. Literary boycott Peres calls Muslim countries' shunning of Paris Book Fair 'most ridiculous.'   1.   We understand that it was not a holy place to study the Torah 21:55  |  Mark B. 13/03/08   2.   Mark`s stupid comment 23:42  |  Reuven 13/03/08   3.   Mark B from Amsterdam 23:59  |  fred 13/03/08   4.   Mark B. - You have no concept of R. Kook`s ideology 01:10  |  Jon 14/03/08   5.   #1 Mark B - You understand so little 05:04  |  * BEN JABO 14/03/08   6.   I also have a son studying in a yeshiva in Jerusalem 19:43  |  yoheved 14/03/08

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