Yeshiva World News

Tragically, another person has died to to no cellphone coverage in Upstate NY. A trucker whose rig slid off the Adirondack Northway during Wednesday’s storm collapsed and died after walking through deep snow to check the truck. (more…)

Lightning struck a Lufthansa airplane during landing at Ben Gurion airport Thursday evening during a thunderstorm. B”H No one was injured, but the company has decided to ground the plane to check for damage.

Rav Shmuel Zev Dicker Shlita the Menahel of Yeshivas Bell Harbor arrived in E”Y today. There will be Alumni Melava Malka this M”S (more…)

Technical experts have completed a blueprint to make millions of Nazi documents stored in Germany accessible to Holocaust researchers, but the 11 nations overseeing the massive archive must give the green light, the archive director said Thursday. (more…)

In the last few weeks the comments section started turning into a kindergarten – which we are not interested in having on YW. We are seriously going to aggressively start cracking down. We suggest you read the following rules C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y. (more…)

The Yeshiva Bochur who was critically injured last week in a major car accident was R”L Niftar from his injuries. The car that Yehushoua Falk A”H was driving in, was returning from Tzefas late Thursday night after delivering envelopes of Tzedakah to Aniyim. Their innocent car was struck by a drunk Arab YM”S, (who unfortunately perished too quickly). Original story HERE. Pics HERE.

A German court on Thursday sentenced a prominent Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel to five years in prison for inciting racial hatred and denying that the Nazis killed millions of Jews. (more…)

Rav Gershon Shtemer ZATZAL was Niftar this morning in Yerushalayim at the age of 82. He was one of the heads of the Eida Hachareidis. This sad news comes on the heels of the news of the passing of Rav Yosef Sheinberger ZATZAL who was also one of the heads of the Eidah; just two weeks ago. The Levaya is taking place right now in Batei Zupnik. Boruch Dayan Emes… 

Prominent Melbourne Askan Rabbi Joseph Gutnick (AKA: Diamond Joe) has been named for the second time as the target of a terrorist assassination plot. A French court last week heard that Rabbi Gutnick’s name was listed in a notebook filled with coded messages belonging to terror suspect Willie Brigitte. (more…)

(NY Daily News) A hasidic rabbi in the religious community of the Williamsburg section in Brooklyn, NY, who want to stop racy flyers from landing on the doorsteps of this community says that his pleas to halt the distribution is falling on deaf ears. (more…)

Two weeks after drastically overhauling city school-bus routes, education officials admitted yesterday they still have no idea how many students lost service – and are revisiting two controversial rules that left kids waiting in the cold to get to school. (more…)

Maran Hagoen R’ Shuel Berenbaum Shlita visited the Highland Park Kollel (Rav Abba Brudny Shlita – Rosh Kollel) yesterday and delivered a Shiur. (More photos in the YW Photo Album)

YW would like to remind everyone who lives in the Tri-state area to please use extreme caution while driving (due to the winter-storm of snow and ice). There have been many accidents reported throughout the area. (Some snow pics from around town HERE)

(11:00AM EST) Five people have just been transported to the hospital by Hatzolah Israel and MDA personnel, at the scene of a fire at Kikar Shabbos and Rechov Yechezkal. The fire which started in a tree and spread to the facade of a building (Maafiyat Yaale/ Bakery), was B”H brought under control a few moments ago.

A local Jewish resident of Bucharest has discovered extensive destruction at the great Jewish cemetery (Cimitirul Mozaic) in the Romania capital. Police say that the perpetrators were children.

Scores of state and city legislators are demanding that the City University of New York change its final exam schedule, which, for the first time in recent history, coincides with the Jewish holiday of Shavous. (more…)

A government-backed report released Tuesday blamed Belgian authorities and the ruling elite for collaborating with the Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. (more…)

A man who entered a Kiev synagogue last year with a large knife and declared that he meant to kill the country’s chief rabbi has been released from custody, according to a February 13, 2007 report. (more…)

A Jewish group said Tuesday it will form a task force to investigate “a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents” at the University of California, Irvine. (more…)

The Ezer Mizion organization will be holding an emergency bone marrow drive in Yerushalayim on Wednesday. The drive is meant to find a match to save the lives of R”L three leukemia victims. Men and women aged 18-50 who are in (more…)