Yeshiva World News

Among the hundreds of documents dealing with money allotted by Arafat, two were found which related to large sums paid to Rabbi Hirsch for “expenses for activities.” The payments in question, one after an other, were unusually large and may indicate that Arafat paid him monthly. (more…)

The UPS package service says Jews in Judea/Samaria who don’t receive service shouldn’t take it personally. The company services Ramallah and Jenin, but not Gush Etzion, Kiryat Arba or Beit El. (more…)

By the year 2030, New York City could have so many people straining its infrastructure that it won’t have enough electricity or housing to meet demand and rush hour traffic will last all day. (more…)

The Foreign Ministry released an urgent terror alert Wednesday, warning Israelis not to travel Goa, India. The ministry said they had received concrete information regarding an imminent Al-Qaida terror attack in the region. Foreign Ministry officials said that the warning applied until the end of December.

About 10 minutes ago an Israeli security guard was stabbed in the neck at tha A-Ram Checkpoint just North of Yerushalayim. Preliminary reports are that he is in critical condition. An ALS bus is enroute to the Kalandia Checkpoint to meet the guards who have transferred him from A-ram.

(Hatzolah Israel Reporter.)

(PICTURES NOW ADDED TO YW PHOTO ALBUM) The funeral of George, the Lakewood Hatzolah Shabbos Goy – who served the tzibur with devotion for 25 years is going down Forest Avenue right now (10:20AM) being escorted by four Lakewood Hatzolah Ambulances, ten Hatzolah cars, and Lakewood Police cars.

Gedoley Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel have signed the Kol Koreh on Wednesday morning calling for a boycott of El Al, but it is being kept in the safe of the The Committee for the Sanctity of Shabbos and will not be distributed yet in order to allow El Al to run back to the negotiating table. The Gedolim have unofficially given El Al have another day and a half to agree to sign the agreement. After that the Kol Koreh will be released throughout the world. (more…)

It is being reported that the boycott of El Al is growing, and according to reports in the Charedi press it has reached beyond the boundaries of Eretz Yisroel. Today a conference of Frum travel agents is expected to take place, with the participation of Gedoley Rabbonim and the heads of the “Committee for the Sanctity of the Sabbath”, at which they will apparently declare a formal boycott of the company. (more…)

Hatzolah members of Stamford Hill, London can now transport critically ill patients to hospitals, without having to depend on the London Ambulance Service to take them there. This new independence comes with the arrival of the organizations first ambulance. (more…)

The State Department condemned remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel will be wiped off the map, describing the latest remarks by the Iranian president as “Just absolutely outrageous.” (more…)

“The trees” are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Pat Davis, president of the Port of Seattle commission, which directs airport operations, said late Monday that maintenance staff would restore the 14 plastic holiday trees, that were removed over the weekend because of a rabbi’s complaint that holiday decor did not include a menorah.

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“Shabbos Deserves Better”
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz. (This article will I”H appear in this weeks Yated.) (more…)

A bill submitted by Labor MK Ophir Pines-Paz would prosecute one who assists someone under 18 in becoming more observant. (more…)

The Binyan Olam Bais Medrash Chanukas Habayis celebration began today, the 20th of Kislev, when the Noviminsker Rebbe Shlita came to the Bais Medrash in Skokie, IL. to affix the Mezuzah to the entrance way of the Bais Medrash. (More photos in YW photo album.) (more…)

Tonight is the Satmar Annual Chuf Alef Kislev Seudah. The Seudah is held each year on the day that the Satmar Rov Hagoen R’ Yoel Teitlebaum ZATZAL was released from the Auschwitz death camp. (more…)

If a deal is still not reached between the Gedolim in Eretz Yirsoel and El Al by this evening, the Gedolim are threatening to come out with a full blown boycott against the airline. (more…)

In my humble opinion, after reading the following article which appeared on an Iranian News website – I felt sickened to my stomach. How could this sub-human who identifies himself as a “chief rabbi” have the audacity (more…)

A European security group chose a Jewish member of Britain’s Community Security Trust, Mike Whine (Director of government & international affairs at CST) to train police to prevent and treat hate crimes.  (more…)

An IDF soldier was moderately injured after being shot this afternoon during an operation in Qabatiya. The forces were searching for wanted Palestinians in the West Bank town. (more…)

The 46th annual dinner of Telshe Yeshiva Chicago, scheduled for Tuesday, December 19th 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago will highlight the national campus expansion campaign and pay tribute to the Davis and Esformes families represented by Mr. Yosef Davis and Rabbi Morris Esformes, dedicators of new campus. (Journal deadline is today. Click HERE for an ad blank.) (more…)