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Rabbi Yudi Dukes, the longtime director of Jewish Learning Network, who inspired many mitzvah campaigns in his merit, passed away today, 8 Shevat, 5781. He was 39 years old. Reb…
The Austrian government on Thursday presented a national strategy on fighting rising anti-Semitism that includes improving the protection of synagogues, improved education about Judaism and stricter prosecution of hate crimes…
Klal Yisrael is urged to daven for the refuah sheleimah of Hagaon Harav Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, shlita, Rosh Yeshivah, Yeshivas Brisk, whose condition has taken a turn for the worse.…
“Please know that even greater than the support you have shown by lifting up the Torah is what you have gained by the Torah lifting you up!” These were the…
Hamodia conducted an interview with askanim involved with the North London Eruv, Reb Yoel Stern and Rabbi Chaim Shulem Steinhart. How did the eiruv start? Last year before Pesach we…
Nearly half of people in the U.K. hold some anti-Semitic views, according to a recent poll. Researchers from YouGov, a well-respected global polling company, and King’s College London (KCL) found…
In a tragic accident in Kiryas Yoel, a young child was hit by a delivery van as he disembarked from his school bus, Mid Hudson News reported. Hatzolah responded and…
Rebbetzin Gita Malka Cohn, a”h, the widow of Rabbi Avraham Cohn, passed away Sunday at the age of 93. Rebbetzin Cohn was married to Rabbi Avraham “Romi” Cohn, z”l, renowned…
A Jewish family’s home in Williamsburg was shot at by an unknown attacker Thursday night. A 13-year-old boy returning from yeshiva at 9:30 p.m. was walking into his home at…
Klein’s ice cream has recalled several hundred bulk containers (3-gallon size) of ice cream due to possible metal contamination in a manufacturing plant, but the containers were never in retail…
The Boro Park Jewish Community Council, in conjunction with the Boro Park Y and Ezra Medical Center, will be providing Holocaust survivors with a streamlined vaccination process, from registration to…
German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi…
Harav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh, spoke on video urging people to daven wholeheartedly for the numerous people who are ill with COVID. He said that the sickness effects both…
Rabbi Abba Cohen, Agudah’s Vice President of Government Affairs, was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s Faith-Based Security Advisory Council as a faith-based organization leader. The recently formed committee,…
Below is a letter Agudath Israel attorney Avi Schick sent U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, regarding ongoing litigation over New York governor Andrew Como’s limits on religious gatherings.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday reiterated his and the NYPD’s commitment to protecting the Jewish community, as the city continues to suffer from significant numbers of…
Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah on Friday, 24 Teves, of Harav Yehudah Kelemer, zt”l, a prominent talmid chacham and the Rav of the Young Israel of West Hempstead…
Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, and Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, have signed a joint letter calling for chizuk in limmud haTorah even during the time when the Talmudei Torah…
President-elect Joe Biden is set to choose Anne Neuberger, an Orthodox Jewish woman, to serve in a newly created cybersecurity role on his National Security Council, Politico reported. Neuberger has…