Click HERE for photos of the Levaya. All Credits: Refael & Yoni Ovadia / Kuvien Images. Shiva times in the home of Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita each day from 11:30am-1:30pm and 6:00pm-8:30pm. In the home of HaGaon HaRav Azriel Aurbach Shlita (53 HaPisga Street, Bayit Vegan) 10:00am-1:15pm and 5:00pm-11:00pm. On Sunday […]

[Click on image to enlarge] A boycott effort against the Electra Company, which manufactures air conditioners and other appliances, is underway due to the firms connection to chilul kevarim in the Jaffa area of Tel Aviv. The flyers and notices circulating in chareidi areas state the Electra Real Estate firm operating at the Jaffa excavation […]

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Rebitzen Leah AurbachA”H was niftar in Yerushalayim on Friday morning. She was the rebitzen of HaGaon HaRav Azriel Aurbach and the daughter of Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita. The nifteres was quite ill during the past months, enduring many yisurim, which ended on erev shabbos kodesh in Shaare Zedek Medical Center shortly after […]

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Major-General Benny Gantz feels in the coming decade, the government must work towards implementing a system in which everyone is compelled to take part in a compulsory service, whether in the form of military service of another arrangement but no one can be exempt from serving the country in […]

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