I send greetings to all those celebrating Hanukkah, the festival of lights.
During Hanukkah, Jewish people everywhere honor the liberation of Jerusalem and the great miracle witnessed in the Holy Temple more than 2,000 years ago. After Jerusalem was conquered by an oppressive king and the Jews lost their right to worship in freedom, (more…)
There will be a Hachnosas Sefer Torah to be dedicated to Cong Torah U’Tefillah (HaRav Moshe Einstadter Shlita) donated by well know philanthropist – Mr Morton Kriger. Procession will be leaving the home of Dr. & Mrs Shmuel Goldstein at 2:00PM; Sunday the 2nd day of Chanukah 3419 Blanch Ave, Cleveland Heights.
Australia’s first kosher pedestrian crossings will feature hi-tech detection sensors, allowing Frum Jews to cross busy Sydney streets safely during Shabbos. Waverley and Woollahra councils are expected to install the devices at two intersections in Old South Head Rd at a cost of $19,800, after the Roads and Traffic Authority rejected a plan to re-program traffic lights. (more…)
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The Waterbury Police Department held its annual Holiday Community Party yesterday. The party was at the Community Relation Division’s office located on Bank Street. Many residents of the City turned out for the event. Among those in attendance was Rabbi Rephael Max, Executive Director of Yeshiva Gedolah, located on Cooke Street. Other members of the Jewish Community also stopped by to show their appreciation to the WPD. (Photo L-R: Akiva Tepper, Chagi Barak, Sgt. Daniel Lauer, Chaim Gewirtzman, Menachem Karlitzsky)
There is a young man who is in desperate need of an 0+ kidney. Please donate a gift of life to save a father of four children. For more information please email okidneydonor@yahoo.com or call 845-356-1400 ext 111.
If you have a moment, click HERE to watch Wolf Blitzer of CNN interview David Duke YM”S(former head of the KKK) who is currently in Iran attending the Holocaust denial conference. (It’s also interesting to note, who the Neturei Karta associate themselves with…..DAVID DUKE YM”S!!)
The moment many Glendale residents have been trying to forestall for over two years came at 10 a.m. Sunday, when a line of buses pulled up to a new yeshiva at 88th Street and began unloading hundreds of students for their first day of class. The United Talmudic Seminary, located at 74 10 88th St., opened to an initial 600 pupils, despite loud objections by civic leaders who claim the facility will drain local resources and add nothing useful to the community. (More pictures in the YW photo album.) (more…)
Yeshiva Toras Chaim has been hit by hate, and people think the same group of people are also responsible for a robbery at the Yeshiva as well. (more…)
Many people have emailed asking why their comments aren’t posted, and what the guidelines are. Keep in mind that moderating comments is an enormously time-consuming process, and if a comment looks like it doesn’t fit the criteria, it’s immediately deleted. So here are a few tips: (more…)
There should be no need to state the following, but to avoid any misconceptions in the media or among members of the public, Agudath Israel of America proclaims strongly and unequivocally that the visibly Jewish men who regularly appear publicly with virulent anti-Semites and claim to represent Jewish Orthodoxy not only do not represent anyone but themselves but are a disgrace to the Jewish people. (more…)
Speech delivered by Rabbi Aharon Cohen of Neturei Karta in Iran. (more…)
Due to the fact that here has been no (REAL) rain in Eretz Yisroel yet, they are making a big Atzeres Tefillah tonight at 11:30PM in Zichron Moshe (Geulah). Maran Hagoen R’ Eliyshiv Shlita also told the Shliach Tzibur at his Minchah Minyan to say the Tefillah of Aneinu during Chazoras Hashatz.
Please be Mispallel for a yungerman who will undergo a bone marrow transplant tomorrow – Friday morning. His name is Dovid Yifrach ben Frida.
The morning’s Email brings word that a friend’s book Dating Secrets is about to hit better bookstores everywhere. Knowing my friend, the pseudonymous Leah Jacobs, I have not the slightest doubt that her advice will smooth the shidduchim process for many singles, and help them close on those shidduchim that should go through and weed out those that should not. (more…)
A Seattle judge has given King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng another week to decide whether to seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting up the Jewish Federation office in Seattle this past summer. Naveed Haq is charged with aggravated murder plus attempted murder and other charges in the July 28 shooting. One woman was killed and five others were wounded.
The recent incident in which paintballs were shot at the Roosevelt Yeshiva dormitory may lead to better dialogue between borough residents and members of the yeshiva. (more…)
Starting at the end of December a new $25 million cardiac unit will be opened at Good Samaritan Hospital, where doctors will be able to preform open-heart surgery. It will be the first time open-heart surgery will be performed anywhere west of the Hudson River in New York state between the Bronx and Albany.
Israel’s High Court has ruled against residents of a Yerushalayim neighborhood by allowing legally stalled construction of a large security wall to continue. The nine-judge panel Wednesday ruled against an appeal by residents of the a-Ram neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, lifting a court-imposed halt on construction of the fence. (more…)
Attention Lakewood residents: If you drive down Somerset Ave at night (especially between Countyline Rd & Ridge) you should be keep in mind that there have been quite a few incidents of deer jumping in front of cars (within days of each other). Deer have a tendency of using the same paths over and over.
