Yeshiva World News

Two people were found dead in a garage following a fire in Flatbush on Friday night. The fire broke out at 1695 East 21st Street, just off of Kings Highway in Flatbush. In the middle of the blaze, officials say they found two bodies. The fire marshal has been called in to investigate. A crime scene has been set up around the one-story garage.

The vast majority of property stolen from Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators has never been returned, leaving between $115 billion and $175 billion in assets still missing, according to a new study. The study, details of which were given to The Associated Press on Friday, shows that affected Jews and their heirs have received just a fifth of the wealth that was stolen from them during World War II. (more…)

INN is reporting that workers have begun evacuating visitors to the Chermon on Motzei Shabbos due to a strong snowstorm and heavy fog that have created poor travel conditions, causing fears that visitors who tried to leave alone would be in danger. Work crews are orderly evacuating the nearly five thousand visitors at the site.

Maran Hagoen Rav Shmuel Berenbaum Shlita delivered a Shiur (more…)

Finally what we all knew would happen has indeed happened. Hillary Clinton, the first major political figure to introduce the concept of a Palestinian State, has declared her intentions to run for President of The united States. Hashem Yeracheim.

On Friday morning in Lakewood a routine draining of the Lake took place. As the water level dropped, a car was seen at the bottom of the Lake. The Lakewood Police department pulled the car out & it turns out that the car was stolen in Lakewood a few months ago.

In Los Angeles, K’hilas Ohr Hachayim in Hankcock Park was vandalized on Thursday evening with Anti-Semitic slogans and one window being smashed. The LAPD had extra patrols over Shabbos, and are requesting anyone who sees anything suspicious to please call the Police Department.

Approx 40 members of Rabbi Sherrer’s shul (Flatbush) made a trip to Dallas Texas this week to be mikarev and michazek the local Dallas community. (more…)

The Tzadaikes Mrs. Wilner A”H was niftar today. The levaya is taking place right now in Boro Park. (They are taking her to Eretz Yisroel.) She was the wife of Rav Yosef Wilner Shlita, the Menahel of Yeshiva Torah Vedas in Flatbush. Boruch Dayan Emmes…

Leading Israeli Rabbonim associated with the Shas government faction ruled this week that it is permissible under Jewish law for Israel to release any number of terrorists guilty of the most heinous crimes in order to save the life of abducted Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Corporal Gilad Shalit. (more…)

Yesterdays article on YW regarding a radical Muslim cleric who called Jews “pigs” and urged Muslim children to die for Islam is now singing a different song. Typical, after being exposed across the world media. In an interview today (more…)

This Sunday 1/21/07 there will be a breakfast at Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin from 9:00AM – 11:00AM honoring Rabbi Uri Zohar Shlita – the leader of the Teshuva movement in Eretz Yisroel – to benefit P’eylim Lev L’achim. (Click on image to ENLARGE it.) (more…)

There is an 11 minute video on Youtube by some neo-Nazi in Michigan which can can get your blood boiling. He probably just noticed an OU on a Kosher product, and is complaining about the new “Kosher tax”. Click here to view it.

The Yeshiva Bochur who was attacked on January 9th in Australia is B”H making a miraculous recovery & was released from the hospital. (more…)

Keren Ezras Shabbos will be having its thirteenth Annual Melava Malka this Motzai Shabbos in Yerushalayim at 8:00PM in the Apirion Hall (corner of Bar Ilan and Apirion). The guest speaker will be Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky. (Click on image to ENLARGE it) (more…)

Israeli Chief Rabbi Metzger said he would “warmly welcome Benedict XVI in Israel”. The government has already invited the Pope to visit Israel. (more…)

A French village which saved 3,000 Yidden from the Holocaust was admitted last night to the state memorial for national heroes. (more…)

The decrepit remnants of a Shul that was recently ordered returned to the Jewish community of Mariupol, Ukraine have been vandalized. (more…)

Please be mispallel for Mordechai Chaim ben Bahiya – He is having a kidney transplant on Friday morning at 7:00AM.

Tomorrow morning (Friday) will be the Bris of an Einekle of Rav (more…)