Reb Yoel Schlesinger, a resident of Beitar Illit, has emerged as one of the heroes of the Meron disaster, extricating a three-year-old from the “walkway of death” and saving many
The largest party in the Israeli Knesset, Likud, expedited a series of legal bills that are supported by right-wing parties on Tuesday in an effort to get them brought to
Torah Rochester is very excited to announce our new partnership with Centers Health Care. Centers currently employs many members of our community and they are constantly growing and looking for
For the victims of Meron, there is no future. No chasuna to look forward to, no children to raise, no legacy to leave behind at the end of a life well lived. One such bochur is the heilige bochur Chaim Rock, zt”l. Habachur Chaim Rock was killed in the stampede in Meron. This sweet boy, […]
Hyundai is recalling more than 390,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada for two problems that can cause engine fires. In one recall, owners are being told to park their
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Her name is Mrs. Iti (nee Landau) Wohlberg, and she now lives in Kew Gardens, NY. She was born in August of 1926 in Rozavlea, Romania – a small Vizhnitz shtetl near Sighet. Yesterday, during Sefiras HaOmer, she spoke of her beautiful life prior to the Holocaust, during the […]
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky’s words about the unfathomable Meron tragedy were recorded by his son, HaRav Yitzchak Shaul, in a letter publicized on Tuesday and confirmed by HaRav Chaim, who
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MIRON!!! OVER 40 PEOPLE DIED IN THE WORST DISASTER ISRAEL HAS SEEN! CLICK HERE TO DONATE MOTHERS ARE CALLING THEIR CHILDREN….AND THERE’S NO ANSWER! WIVES ARE CALLING
The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway. Monday night’s accident was one of the deadliest in the history of the subway, and questions quickly arose about the structural […]
Pennsylvania should immediately terminate the no-bid state contract of a company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing and exposed the private medical information of tens of thousands of residents, Republican state lawmakers said Monday. GOP leaders also called for state and federal probes into the Atlanta-based contractor’s mishandling of the data, and what they said was […]
In the tragic crush in Meron last week, which claimed the lives of 45 people in Israel’s largest civilian disaster in history, the Jewish people were thrust into a deep mourning in a single horrific instant. We were glued to the news coming in, devastated, and praying that the human toll be mitigated. We entered […]
Top Biden administration officials and U.S. senators crisscrossed the Middle East on Monday, seeking to assuage growing unease among Gulf Arab partners over America’s re-engagement with Iran and other policy shifts in the region. The trips come as the U.S. and Iran, through intermediaries in Vienna, discuss a return to Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal […]
Sources tell YWN that NY Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has been released from prison and is on his way home. He was released five years earlier than his six year sentence.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 12 to 15 by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting up shots for many before the beginning of the next school year. The announcement is set to come a month […]
President Joe Biden on Monday formally raised the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling set by former President Donald Trump. Refugee resettlement agencies have waited for Biden to quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States this […]
Sergeant Rami Alwan, a Druze Israel Police officer who rescued Rav Avigdor Chiyut and his 10-year-old son Shmuel during the Meron disaster came to the Chiyut home in Bnei Brak
As YWN reported, eleven-year-old Ze’ev Mordechai Kubetschick of Bnei Brak, who was seriously injured in the Meron disaster and was sedated and ventilated, has Baruch Hashem made a swift recovery and has already been released from the hospital. A B’Chadrei Charedim report revealed the unbelievable story of how one Hatzalah volunteer’s refusal to give up […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a midnight deadline on Tuesday to put together a new coalition government — or be looking at the possibility of leading his Likud party into the opposition for the first time in 12 years. Netanyahu has struggled to secure a parliamentary majority since March 23 — when elections ended […]
Iranian police on Tuesday started investigating the death of a Swiss diplomat who died after reportedly falling from a high rise in the capital of Tehran. The Swiss woman, in
ENDORSED BY: RAV NASANEL BRANDSDORFER, BEDATZ EIDA HACHAREIDIS ????? ?? ??? ????? This past Lag B’Omer 5781, the entire Jewish world was shocked to learn about the events on ?? ?????. We all cried. We all davened. We all gave. Instead of pointing fingers, Klal Yisroel turned inward, and asked a special question only the […]
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