Yeshiva World News

A Russian court on Friday sentenced five teenagers to prison terms or juvenile detention for beating a Jewish man at a cemetery and fatally stabbing him with metal cemetery cross, a court official said. (more…)

Rav Nechemya Kaplan Shlita R”Y Shaar Hatalmud from E”Y will be spending Shabbos in BP. (more…)

Lakewood Police are searching for the thief who stole a street sign from Magnolia Drive. The sign indicates that drivers must turn left or right onto North Lake Drive, the APP reported. (more…)

The Israel Antiquities Authority is considering broadcasting real-time, 24-hour video from the work at the Kosel in a bid to allay Muslim fears that their shrine will be harmed by repair work. (more…)

YouTube, world’s first place for searching videos, is full of videos denying the Holocaust. One of these videos shows under the headline “Housewitz – Tanzen macht frei” (“Housewitz – Dancing relieves”; Housewitz the style of Auschwitz) one of the frightfulliest (more…)

Nachum Segal conducted two great interviews one day after another. To hear the interview with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky about the Monsey meat scandal and Empire Poultry’s new holographic devices click HERE. To hear the interview with Rabbi Pesach Krohn talking about his new book, click HERE.

A drunk Arab driver was killed and three Israeli Yeshiva Bochrim were injured – one seriously – in a car accident at approximately 1:00AM. The accident occurred near Tzomet Yavo (in the north). MDA and Hatzolah transported the three injuries to the hospital in Nahariya. Please be Mispallel for Yehoshua Falik ben Tovah Raizel – who is supposed to get married in one month. (More photos HERE)

A wanted Hamas terrorist has been caught in a joint operation carried out by the IDF and the GSS. He was responsible for the suicide attack on the Park Hotel in Netanya during the Pesach Seder. 30 people HY”D attending that Pesach seder were R”L killed.

Spain on Thursday inaugurated a culture institute honoring the Sephardic Jews and said it was settling a debt dating back to their expulsion during the Spanish Inquisition. (more…)

Shanghai plans to erect a monument to its Jewish immigrants who had fled from Nazi persecution the Shanghai Daily reported Thursday. The district of Hongkou was planning this year to renovate its Ohel Moshe Synagogue and turn it into a memorial. According to reports, the building’s restoration would follow designs from 1928. (more…)

America is home to almost 20 percent more Jews than previously estimated, according to a study released Wednesday by Brandeis University. (more…)

Jews were being blocked Thursday from reaching the Kosel, by the hundreds of Arab protesters demonstrating against construction near the Temple Mount. (more…)

(UPDATE to THIS story): Lakewood Police have arrested the man who drove a car through the front wall of a Spruce Street home about 3 a.m. Wednesday, injuring three family members, including an 11-month-old, police said. (more…)

Israels Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter has signed a memorandum with US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday evening promoting cooperation between the two countries on matters of homeland defense. (more…)

A Jewish man injured in a February 2002 terrorist attack could get up to $48 million after a federal jury awarded damages Wednesday in his lawsuit claiming the attack was backed by the Palestinian Authority and PLO. (more…)

(Click HERE to watch the video. ) There is no mailbox, no sidewalk, no driveway, and no zip code for the small shanty town that’s been created at the back of an abandoned lot in Lakewood. Yet for about a dozen homeless men, the disheveled campsite has been home for the last several months. (more…)

The terrorist organization otherwise knows as the Al Aksa Brigades” threatened to attack Shuls Wednesday, in retaliation for what it called “the damage being done to the Al Aqsa Mosque and the continued plans for “Judaizing Jerusalem.” (more…)

The first fixed election date in Ontario history wasn’t so fixed after all. The government announced Wednesday that the provincial election scheduled for Oct. 4 this year will be moved to Oct. 10 because of a conflict with a Jewish holiday. (more…)

Rav Avrohom Gurovitz Shlita R”Y Gateshead (more…)

An Austrian court has sentenced a Croatian man to 15 months in jail for smashing a Jewish school with a crowbar last year. The man told the court “there are too many Jews in this country” and justice officials said his failure to show any remorse contributed to the sentence. (more…)