YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Eliyahu Yanofsky Z”L, head of the Lakewood Seminary in Lakewood, NJ. Rav Yanofsky, a renowned Talmid Chochom, spent many years learning in The Kollel at Beth Medrash Govoah. He was a son of Rav Moshe Yanofsky, the longtime principal at Machon Bais Yaakov in Boro Park. […]
(VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) The Jaffa Military Court on Sunday, 24 Adar, extended the remand of Meir Brodiansky, ordering him to remain in jail without bail pending the
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HaGaon HaRav Tzion Boaron used a kabolas panim event last week in the Kretchnif-Sigat Beis Medrash in the Beis Yisrael neighborhood of Yerushalayim to speak out against chareidi MKs. The
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Families from the Kibbutz movement and peripherial towns throughout Israel have volunteered to take in some 2,250 African refugee asylum seekers ahead of their planned deportation. One of the organizers
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The Beersheva District Court accept the state’s appeal in the case against three sikrikim who were convicted of protesting against the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Gat HaRav Moshe Havlin. The three; Shlomo Weissfish, Yehuda Silberberg and Menachem Tep were found guilty of illegal gathering, trespassing, and harming personal property of another. The protests and agmas […]
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As schools around the country brace for student walkouts following the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, principals and superintendents are scrambling to perform a delicate balancing act: How to let
HaRav Dov Lior sent a letter to the Chief Rabbis of Israel, expressing his unwavering support for them and the state kashrus, calling the kashrus initiative of Tzohar Rabbonim “A knife in the Chief Rabbinate’s heart which is the heart of Yisrael”. Rav Lior joins the opponents of the Tzohar initiative, citing Rav Kook ZT”L […]
Donald Trump is coming — at last — to the state he loves to hate, setting foot in California for his first time as president. This is turf he lost to Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 4 million votes in 2016. He has mocked its judges for blocking his agenda, sued over its lax […]
Israel’s upward trend in tourism continued in February 2018. There was a 28% increase in incoming tourism on last February and since the beginning of the year: more than half a million tourist entries– 25% increase on same period last year and 56% more than 2016 – and NIS1.54 billion injected into the economy According […]
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