Yeshiva World News

This evening there will be a Yartzheit Lizecher Nishmas the founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in Queens, Hagoen R’ Dovid Lebowitz ZATZAL at 8:00PM in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (147-01 147th Street). Hagoen R’ Hemoch Lebowitz Shlita (Rosh Yeshiva) and Hagoen R’ Binyomin Kaminetsky Shlita (Rosh Yeshivas Toras Chaim, South-shore) will be delivering Hespaidim.

A 26 year old Yungerman was hit by a car last evening in Australia. He was rushed into emergency surgery. Please be Mispallel for Yehoshua Efraim Ben Chana Yita. He is member of the newly established Lakewood Kollel (this past summer).

A Jewish man from northern Israel returned 700,000 shekels ($165,300) to the government that he was granted as compensation for the summer’s war. He said he did not deserve it. (more…)

Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother’s death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died at the age of 79. Welles died of an apparent heart attack at his Bronx home last Tuesday.

Three months after the Scranton School Board agreed to sell the former East Scranton Intermediate School to a rabbi from Brooklyn, it is still awaiting documentation from the prospective buyer to move ahead with the deal. (more…)

Neighbors are opposing plans for a new Shul because of traffic fears – even though they are aware that Yidden walk to Shul on Shabbos. (more…)

Arab marauders smashed up a Talmud Torah in the northern city of Acco over Shabbos, painting Arabic graffiti and swastikas on the walls, destroying furniture, and scattering Seforim. (more…)

The dollar’s slide continued with the opening of the foreign currency market today. The shekel appreciated 0.09% today, and the shekel-dollar representative rate was set at NIS 4.23/$, its lowest level in five years. In dollar options yesterday, the shekel-dollar exchange rate fell below NIS 4.22/$, but in corrected upwards slightly today in mixed trading in international markets.

Increasing Charedi buying power is forcing Egged to change its services. Egged, the largest bus company in Israel with 1 million passengers a day, operates 24 inter-city “mehadrin” lines on which men and women are segregated. Egged refers to them using the euphemism “designated (ye’udim)” lines. (more…)

Jackie Mason made a cameo appearance in federal court Monday, accepting an apology from the missionary group “Jews for Garbage” in return for dropping a lawsuit in which he claimed the group damaged him by using his name and likeness in a pamphlet. (more…)

Ramapo is reportedly settling its case against a yeshiva developer charged with running a pre-school out of a trailer on its Grandview Avenue construction trailer. Deputy Town Attorney Meryl Troodler said today that she couldn’t discuss the settlment’s specifics until the agreement was signed by Mosdos Chofetz Chaim. (more…)

Click HERE to view a video of the demolition of the existing structure on 14th Avenue & 48th Street. In it’s spot I”H will be built the magnificent new Bobover Bais Medrash of the Bobover Rebbe Shlita (Hagoen R’ Mordche Duvid Unger Shlita).

A teenager involved in the murder of British Jewish political activist Alan Senitt in Washington this summer was sentenced to six years in juvenile detention. (more…)

It is being reported that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be hosting a Chanukah party in the Tzivos Hashem’s Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights. (more…)

Pictures from last weeks Chernoble Sheva Brachos. (More photos in extended article.) (more…)

An early morning blaze in the Clifton Reform Jewish Center on Sunday has left the building uninhabitable with no electricity and heavy smoke damage, authorities said. (more…)

Despite a decline in the national Jewish population, both the city of Boston and Boston University draw some of the highest numbers of Jews in the nation, (more…)

Last evening a fire broke out at the Avenue J Florist at midnight. The store was basically destroyed. B”H there were no injuries.

In Eretz Yisreol A woman was R”L just killed in a serious head-on collision between two cars at HaTishbi Junction, near Kibbutz Hatzorea.

In Lakewood this morning, a school-bus carrying Yeshiva children to Tiferes Bais Yaakov was involved in a car accident on Lakewood New Egypt Road and Pine Circle Drive. Lakewood Hatzolah responded, but B”H no injuries were reported.