One of the concerns surrounding Israel’s maintaining control of Har HaBayis is the fact that too many will walk on the holiest site in the world without any knowledge or concerns of the prohibitions and the inyan of Kares. While gedolei hador shlita have prohibited visiting Har HaBayis, there are rabbonim, talmidei chachamim who feel […]
Rabbi Shalom Fried serves as an advisor on kevarim to Minister of Religious Services Yaakov Margi. Fried spent many years working with Asra Kadisha, and is regarded as being among
A bit less than a year has passed since the 24 Elul 57712 (September 23, 2001) rock-throwing attack near Kiryat Arba that claimed the lives of Asher Pamer HY”D, 25, and his infant son Yonatan HY”D, Arabs in the Hebron area on Tuesday 10 Elul 5772 reported that three vehicles were set ablaze near Halhoul, […]
Preparations are underway in Paris for Sunday’s visit of HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita. As was reported by YWN-ISRAEL, the gadol hador will fly to France in a private plane paid for by a French philanthropist and he will spend a number of hours in Paris on Sunday, 15 Elul 5772 on a chizuk […]
[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman – 5TJT] As a follow up to our article last week regarding the Tefillin straps, there have been three very important developments. These developments will, unfortunately,
The man who admitted to kidnapping and killing Leiby Kletzky Z”L last summer was sentenced today. Levi Aron pleaded guilty to killing 8-year-old Leiby earlier this month. He has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison. Levi Aron pleaded guilty this month to lesser charges in a deal that spared him a criminal […]
Former senior government minister and head of the Kadima Party Tzipi Livni does not hesitate to share her extreme secularist views, views that have no place for gedolei yisrael or Torah values. Livni was a guest speaker at a forum addressing the public’s trust in the judicial system. She stated that as a former senior […]
In the spring of 2013, 30 graduates of the nation’s first chareidi mechina will be entering the IDF. The yeshiva, which prefers to refer to itself as ?????? ???????? ??????, has been operating, albeit under the media radar, realizing the mixed reactions a chareidi IDF prepatory institution is going to generate. The yeshiva stresses it […]
A group of Israeli bochrim affiliated with a known chassidus was expelled from the London chareidi community by member of the Shomrim. The young men were caught on surveillance cameras taking a “sizable sum” of tzedaka money from London shuls. After consulting with Shomrim’s rabbonim, the decision was made not to turn them over to […]
Councilman David G. Greenfield met last week with top officials from Consolidated Edison to get answers on issues that have plagued residents and businesses of Boro Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst
It appears that Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita is not just in a pivotal decision-making position regarding the Jerusalem Chief Rabbis election, but also regarding the upcoming election for
Yesterday U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) wrote to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to express disappointment in his attendance at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran, Iran. The Senators argued that the Secretary-General’s attendance further legitimizes the Iranian regime, while Tehran continues to sponsor terrorism, pursue an illicit nuclear […]
The young married Chabad woman arrested by military police remains imprisoned at this time, Wednesday afternoon. ‘D’ was arrested on Monday as she tried to retroactively arrange affairs vis-à-vis military service, something she neglected to do as a teenager. Today, a married frum woman, military police felt compelled to immediately lock her up for her […]
The man who admitted to kidnapping and killing Leiby Kletzky Z”L last summer will be sentenced today. Levi Aron pleaded guilty to killing 8-year-old Leiby earlier this month. He’s facing
European Jewish Congress (EJC) President Dr. Moshe Kantor has condemned yesterday’s attack on a Jewish man and his six year old daughter in Berlin which led to his hospitalization with head injuries. “After the murders in Toulouse we expected one of two things to happen. On the one hand it could have sent shock waves […]
After the news spread on Tuesday that a Jerusalem court remanded senior Asra Kadisha leader Chizki Kalmanowitz, it was all but certain that violent protests would follow, and that is
A Vueling aircraft which is believed to have been hijacked, has landed at Schipol airport in Amsterdam after a flight from Malaga. The Dutch Defense Ministry confirmed that it had
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagon HaRav Chaim Dov Altusky ZATZAL, the Mechaber of Seforim “Chidushei Basra”, a son-in-law of Hagon HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg ZATZAL,
Catskills Hatzalah has responded to more than 1,800 emergency medical calls so far this summer. Many of those responses resulted in saving the lives of young children, expectant mothers, parents
The twelfth Siyum HaShas earlier this month marked the second time in less than 11 weeks that tens of thousands of Jews took to a major American stadium to make a statement about what’s important to them. Though the Siyum was significant in its own right and celebrated an achievement whose significance virtually all Jews […]
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