Yeshiva World News

A picture of a Rebbe teaching his class in a bomb shelter.?

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YN: This week, the Conference of Rabbis for Correcting Conversion, Preventing Mixed Marriages, and Preventing Assimilation, opened with the participation of rabbis and rabbinical judges from all streams of Orthodoxy: Hassidic, Lithuanian, national religious, and members of the Chief Rabbinate. (more…)

INN: Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah appeared on Al Jazeera television Thursday night, proving that he is alive and well. The interview was recorded but his references to Thursday’s events indicated it was done so after the Israeli Air Force bombed a meeting place of leaders of the terrorist organization. (more…)

FJC: A kosher meat processing plant has been inaugurated in Chernovtsy. It will produce food products under the supervision of the Ukrainian Kashrut Committee. Each product will be sealed with the Kashrut sign of the Chief Rabbinate of Ukraine. (more…)

TJN: Members of East Ramapo’s public school community took the podium last night to criticize the Board of Education’s recent decision to appoint a new district treasurer and to pay him for what had been an unpaid post. Earlier this month, the board voted 5-2 to appoint Israel Bier of Monsey — a longtime opponent of East Ramapo tax increases and a former school board member — as treasurer, replacing James Rose, the district’s business administrator who had for years also performed the treasurer’s duties. (more…)

CJN: A halachic-based humanitarian and educational organization has begun slaughtering kosher chickens for the Cuban community on an ongoing basis. “Even though in the past we had periodic chicken slaughtering… [From now on] every few weeks we’ll have another few slaughterers go down,” said Rabbi Simon Aisenbach, executive director of the Canadian Friends of Cuban Jewry (CFCJ). (more…)

Forward: With an Orthodox Jew at their helm, two dozen recent graduates of the Guardian Angels training program — resplendent in their trademark red berets and red satin bomber jackets — last week launched the first Canadian chapter of the New York-based law-and-order group. (more…)

ROL: The Raleigh, one of the last of the famed Catskills hotels, has been sold to a Hasidic group for $5.1 million. The plan is to turn the former landmark, the haunt of Sammy Davis Jr. and Totie Fields, into a religious day camp. Rahal LLC, a corporation formed by the Congregation Khal Bnei Zion Inc, purchased the 320-room hotel and 90 acres on July 18, county records show. The Congregation is affiliated with the Brooklyn-based Bobov sect that own a religious camp across the road. (more…)

These are photos taken yesterday of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, NY. As you can all see the Bais Medrash has totally been gutted out and construction workers are working full speed to make sure that the Yeshiva can move back in for the Elul Z’man. Click on the images to ENLARGE them.–YW Editor.

INN: Israel Air Force jets demolished a Hizbullah bunker southeast of Beirut late Wednesday night, and intelligence information indicated that the group’s chief terrorist, Hassan Nasrallah, may have been there during the strike. (more…)

Summary of Israel Defense Forces aerial and naval activity in Lebanon in the past 24 hours: (more…)

A friend of mine emailed me a link to an article from the World Net Daily written by Nazi lover Pat Buchanan. Click HERE to read it.–YW Editor.

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Click HERE to view a video of the press conference.?

Lakewood resident Brandon J. Fritz has been arrested in connection with the abduction and sexual assault of an Orthodox Jewish woman in Lakewood, (more…)

(This will be updated as the news comes across the wire, & remember that the times are Israeli times.)?

8:20 pm:? ? Palestinians just hurled six firebombs at IDF forces east of Tulkarm. Unknown injuries.

7:50 pm: [Arutzsheva] MADA officials report that beginning on Thursday morning until 7:20pm, EMS teams responded to 45 rocket attacks,? ? a total of 74 people were treated, including two IDF soldiers hit by terrorist gunfire along the border area. Two others were killed in a rocket attack in Nazareth.?

7:09 pm:? The city of Chaifa is under attack A/T/T.?

6:39 pm: Rockets are raining down on the city of Naharyia.?

6:15 pm: A? soldier was injured in the last while from a Molotov cocktail in Shechem.?

6:12 pm: Two IDF soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting on the Lebanon-Israeli border. (more…)

Elchonon Kirshenbaum – (Flatbush) Brooklyn New York.

Click on these images to ENLARGE them. I wonder if it will make you as nauseous as it made me.? My solution to these Nazi-lovers is: since these lowlifes embrace terrorists, they should go get weapons and join Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. Then the IDF will blow them off the face of the planet.

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Gov. George Pataki and other prominent politicians visited Kiryas Joel yesterday to pay respects to Mayor Abraham Wieder, whose son, Boruch, died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 36. Boruch Wieder was the eldest of the mayor’s 10 children. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor four years ago.? Visiting him yesterday were Pataki; state Senate Democratic Leader David Paterson, who’s running for lieutenant governor; and Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, Republican candidate for state attorney general.

Please keep these young men in your Tefillos.–YW Editor.