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The Jewish community of Kyiv, Ukraine, celebrated the bris of an 11-year-old boy named Igor in Kerestir, Hungary, on Wednesday - the yahrtzeit of Reb Shayale ben Reb Moshe. The boy, from the orphanage in...

Volunteer EMTs from Hatzolah of Los Angeles came under fire on Shabbos as they were treating a patient near a shul on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana, California. Hatzolah was called for a patient suffering a...

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This past Motzei Shabbos, March 5, Brooklyn Chaveirim celebrated its 20th annual Member appreciation Melave Malka, at the luxury Indigo Hotel in Williamsburg. Recognizing their members who selfishly devote themselves to helping the community...

HaRav Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva visited YDE in Flatbush on Tuesday morning. Rav Brudny spoke to 5th grade students in honor of haschalas gemara. He then gave each boy a...

A band of hooligans toppled a menorah placed on the sidewalk of the town square in Dnipro, Ukraine. Surveillance footage shows a group of 5 teenagers approaching the menorah at approximately 6 am Monday morning...

Hagaon Rav Moshe Hillel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, visited the Sephardic community in Flatbush this past weekend, providing chizuk and inspiration to the thousand-plus that turned out to greet him. Over the course of...

Rav Yitzchak Kolodetzky, a tremendous talmid chochom, mechaber seforim, and the son-in-law of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, is currently on a visit to Los Angeles, where he has addressed and met with hundreds of bochurim in various yeshivos, providing...

The famed Bais Medrash at Beth Medrash Gavoah was overflowing with thousands of Yungerliet on Monday night, who had gathered for the rare opportunity to hear a Shiur from Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau. The elderly...

As YWN has reported, Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, arrived on Sunday morning in NY on his first visit to the Unites States. The Rosh Yeshiva was taken off the plane by...

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea visited Yeshiva of Flatbush yesterday and announced the arrest of the individual responsible for pouring gasoline around the yeshiva and setting it on fire this past Thursday evening, October 14th. Joining...

Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky seen just before Kol Nidrei - holding a small Sefer Torah. The Gadol Hador Davened in his home with a small Minyan. Minutes after making Havdalah on Motzei Yom Kippur, Hagaon...

As Yom Kippur approaches, rather than the lively hustle that one would expect on the days leading up to sukkos, a somber aura can be felt in the streets of Meah Shearim as people...

s it possible after all this time that there can still be a miracle in Surfside? “I’d say hang on,” 12-year-old Elisheva Cohen said Tuesday. “We are going to try everything.” That was before the heartbreaking...

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In the presence of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, thousands celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of the son of Rav Aryeh Kanievsky, a trusted member of the Gadol HaDor's household, earlier this week. HaRav Chaim arrived at...

Walking around the commercial retail hubs of the Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday, an observer might surmise based on the enforcement action of government officials that the COVID-19 pandemic only affects Jews. ...

Mesibas L'Chaim in honor of the appointment of Harav Naftula Yakov Padva as dayan in the Bais Hora'ah of Toms River under the leadership of Harav Yechiel Malik ...