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Affixing the Mezuzah at Assemblyman Eicenstein’s Office in Albany
Tefillos Requested as Bnei Brak’s Harav Landau Hospitalized in Serious Condition
Klal Yisrael is urged to daven for the refuah sheleimah of Hagaon Harav Moshe Landau, shlita, Rav of Bnei Brak, who is hospitalized in Netanya’s Laniado Hospital in a serious…
Senator Kaminsky Presents NYS Liberty Medal to Heroic Brothers
Senator Todd Kaminsky presented West Hempstead residents Mr. Yoni and Mr. Ariel Sacknovitz with the New York State Liberty Medal, the highest award a State Senator can bestow upon a…
Accused Killer of Menachem Stark Had Placed Tracking Device Under Stark’s Car
Erskin Felix, accused of kidnapping and killing Menachem Stark Hy’d, had a friend set up a tracking device, which Felix placed under Stark’s car, in the weeks leading up to…
Learn & Live Program Continues To ‘Tastefully’ Teach
The popular Learn & Live program for boys attracts an overflow crowd each week as the boys are excited to learn the Lamed-Tes Melachos and see what each week has…
Bais Yaakov of Miami Witness to Witness Luncheon
Bais Yaakov of Miami’s Zechor Yemos Olam Program recently held its annual Witness to Witness Luncheon. The Zechor Yemos Olam program (also known as the ZYO program) is run by…
Celebrating Purim at Kever Rashbi in Meron
Yeshivas Mordechai Hatzaddik in Adass Yisrael, Melbourne
Part 11-Yeshiva Torah Vodaath at 100: Talmidim of the Mesivta Speak
Harav Shachne Weinberger is the Menahel of Mesivta of Clifton and Rav of K’hal Tiferes Boruch in Passaic, New Jersey. He learned in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath throughout his years in…
Part 10-Yeshiva Torah Vodaath at 100: Talmidim of the Mesivta Speak
Mr. Moshe Samuels, a prominent resident of Lawrence, NY, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and entered Yeshiva Torah Vodaath after his bar mitzvah. His mother was a first cousin of…
Governor’s Budget Proposal Preserves Lakewood Busing Consortium
Pending the legislature’s approval, busing for all children in Lakewood will continue uninterrupted for the coming year, as per a clause of Governor Phil Murphy’s budget proposal that extends a…
Lakewood Briefs
Jackson Mayor’s Email Calls for ‘Gloves Off’ Fight in Zoning Cases An email sent by Jackson Mayor Michael Reina to several attorneys seems to support a widely held belief that…
Harav Moshe Goldberg, Zt”l
“International Yid” would be a most fitting title for Harav Moshe Goldberg, zt”l, who was niftar in Toronto on Thursday morning, Rosh Chodesh Adar II, at the age of 69.…
Krias Hamegillah in Melbourne’s Adass Yisrael
While it is still Taanis Esther in most of the world, in Australia it is already Purim night, and they have already leined the megillah.
Shacharis at the Kosel on Taanis Esther
Zalmen Distributes $80 to Recipients of Masbia Food Packages
In honor of his 80th birthday, a Masbia donor named Zalmen visited and distributed envelopes containing $80 to 97 recipients of Masbia food packages.
Boro Park’s Oldest Shul Seeks Landmark Status to Avoid Demolition
It was built at the turn of the century, just when Brooklyn was accepting its first spillover Jews from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and just four years after Boro Park…
‘He Made Him the Hero of the School’
A child with physical disabilities was the “hero” of the masquerade performed ahead of Purim in one Boro Park yeshivah. A school masquerade was celebrated at Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech on…
Tomchei Shabbos of Monsey Purim Distribution for 500 Families
Retirees’ Morning Kollel in Pittsburgh Celebrates Siyum
After nearly three years of dedicated study, on Monday morning, March 18, the 10 members of the retirees’ Morning Kollel of Pittsburgh, celebrated a siyum on Maseches Makkos. The Morning…