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The bachurim of Yeshivah Lezeirim Manchester recently returned from a unique weekend in the Swiss Alps. All the participants were uplifted, not only by the indescribably beautiful Swiss scenery surrounding…
Tu B’Shvat, the new year for the trees, marked an auspicious beginning for the intense limudim of Agudath Israel of America’s Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah. The day started early, particularly for…
Hundreds of Israelis on Monday evening convened at the Kosel and participated in a special tefillah gathering to give thanks to Hashem to the bountiful rain season Israel has been experiencing…
It was an extraordinary start for Agudath Israel of America’s 19th Annual Yarchei Kallah, with hundreds of people from all over the world participating in back to back events on…
Rabbi Yehiel Kalish has been sworn in as a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives after being chosen unanimously by a Democratic Party Committee to fill a recently…
Three generations of students in New York City yeshivos bid farewell last Thursday to Mr. Yitzchok (Isaac) HaKohen Fink, who was niftar Wednesday after a brief illness. For half a…
“Do you know this man?” asked the flight attendant. Mrs. M. Niederman was the last person to leave the United Airlines plane at London’s Heathrow Airport. As she exited the…
Mr. Yitzchok Rothstein came to Yeshiva Torah Vodaath from his home in Boston in 1975 when he was 12 years old and entering eighth grade. He remained in the yeshivah…
Navigating the Medical System Lecture series featured a lecture on obesity on Tuesday evening, January 8, at Congregation Etz Chaim. Dr. Joe Ricci-Gorbea, a bariatric surgeon at New York Presbyterian…
A judge has ruled that Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital must rescind the death certificate it issued for an Orthodox Jewish patient some three weeks before his death. The decision could have…
A moving levayah took place Sunday morning at the United Synagogue’s Bushey New Cemetery, for six victims of the Holocaust, Hy”d, whose remains had been in the keeping of the…
On Jan. 6, the Toronto Shidduch Initiative (TSI) hosted a community tefillah and Kinus, led by Harav Yitzchok Kolodetsky, son-in-law of Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita. Established less than one…
On Shabbos, a synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria, was attacked by an unknown man who threw stones at the synagogue and smashed the glass windows. The Bulgarian Jewish community was surprised…
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The Eden Palace wedding hall in Williamsburg was packed last Sunday evening, for a special event to save the future of the Bukharian Jewish community of Queens. The emergency event…
“I get to meet a new person. I get to write to someone and it’s as if I’m playing with a friend.” – Tova, third grade Once again, Bnos members…
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by an anti-yeshivah group, ruling Wednesday that the plaintiffs — former yeshivah students who have since left the community — had no standing…
The measles outbreak in Lakewood and the surrounding areas was declared over by the state and county health department. Though significantly smaller in scale than still-active outbreaks in Orthodox communities…