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Over the past decade, thousands of Orthodox Jews have bucked worldwide trends and opted for more basic cellular phones in an effort to protect themselves from the ever-increasing dangers of…
Thousands of people gathered Tuesday in North London to unite the whole kehillah in tefillah. The kinus was called at the initiative of the Mara d’Asra Harav Efraim Padwa, shlita,…
The Gateshead kehillah, together with the whole community, were greatly saddened by the petirah of Rabbi Yosef Lehmann, zt”l, in the final hours of last Shabbos. Rabbi Lehmann was a…
Two young boys in Lakewood who went missing on their way to yeshivah Monday morning were found in a forest near their home following a four-hour search. The Lakewood Scoop…
Agudath Israel of America expresses its very deep concern and disappointment over the recently adopted policy of separating the members of families who have entered the United States illegally. It…
Terrified children were chased by a woman brandishing a large knife on Sunday evening in Stamford Hill, London. The woman threatened a group of between 13 and 15 young Jewish…
Urmston Jewish Cemetery in Greater Manchester has seen three incidents of vandalism, involving smashed matzeivos, in the space of a month. In May, there were two separate cases of damage…
Hagaon Harav Avraham Zvi Beck, zt”l, Rav of Melbourne’s Adass Yisrael community, was niftar on Monday, at the age of 85. The Rav announced last month that due to his…
A monument to Holocaust victims in Luxembourg was officially inaugurated on Sunday in the presence of the country’s Grand Duke and Prime Minister. The monument, made by French-Israeli Holocaust survivor…
A delegation of 100 Orthodox rabbis and communal leaders from across the country – from California and Kentucky to New York, Pennsylvania and Florida – converged on the nation’s capital…
The Governor’s Mansion now has added protection. Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted a picture on Friday of the light green mezuzah gifted to him by talmidim of a Long Island yeshivah…
Jewish artifacts, including ancient sifrei Torah from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of the ongoing civil war, with some…
The village of Kiryas Joel will become the Town of Palm Tree in less than six months after the Assembly on Thursday joined the Senate in overwhelmingly passing a bill…
Thousands took part in the levayah in Bnei Brak Wednesday night of Hagaon Harav Shimon Yosef Edelstein, zt”l, son of, yblch”t, Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, Rosh Yeshivah, Yeshivas Ponevez,…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced to wild applause Wednesday that the first checks had gone out for his security grant program for yeshivos and Jewish sites, marking the occasion by presenting…
The Jewish community received with great sorrow the news of the petirah of Reb Moshe Binik, z”l, one of the pillars of chessed of the community, at the age of…
The Gerrer community, as well as the wider Zurich community, mourned the petirah on Wednesday morning in Yerushalayim of Reb Leibel Bornstein, z”l, at the age of 95. Reb Leibel…
EL AL Airlines is instituting a change this Motzoei Shabbos that will lead to a change in where an aron should be brought to be placed on an airplane, but…