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Body of Rabbi Alvin Kass, Chief Chaplain of the NYPD being removed from Cornell Hospital to the funeral home.

Governor Ron DeSantis confirms Floridians will vote on officially abolishing property taxes statewide, so they no longer pay “rent” to the government.

Hurricane Melissa lashes El Cobre in Santiago de Cuba, snapping trees and bringing down power lines.

The IDF confirmed that overnight airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed around 30 Hamas terrorists and other armed group field commanders, including participants in the October 7 attacks, in retaliation for Hamas killing an IDF soldier in Rafah yesterday.

Russian President Putin announced that Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed unmanned underwater vehicle, the 2M39 Poseidon.

Nvidia has become the first company in history to be worth more than $5 trillion.

The renowned mashpia Rav Yigal Cohen has issued a passionate call to bnei hayeshivos and avreichim across Eretz Yisroel: close your Gemaros this Thursday and head to Yerushalayim to take part in the mass atzeres tefillah.

“Hakadosh Baruch Hu is calling out, ‘Lech lecha mei’artzecha’—leave your comfort zone and come show love for those who learn Torah,” he urged.

Speaking to Kol Chai Radio, Rav Cohen addressed the broader Israeli public, saying, “They should be paying us a fortune just so that we continue learning Torah.” The rov emphasized that the gathering is not a political demonstration but a declaration of unity and love for Torah and its learners. “Every avreich would prefer to stay with his Gemara in the beis medrash,” he said, “but Hakadosh Baruch Hu is calling out: leave your comfort zone, take your bag, and come show love for the lomdei Torah.”

Rav Cohen noted that the vast majority of Jews, across all backgrounds, respect and support Torah learning. “I’m not talking based on surveys,” he said, “but from what I see every day, when a simple Jew wants to give charity, he chooses to support lomdei Torah. Eretz Yisroel was not given to us because of the army, but because of the Torah. We just need to reach people and explain it to them.”

He also turned to traditional and newly observant Jews, saying, “The thousands of young people who put on tefillin for the first time, who come to the Kosel, who are growing stronger in their Yiddishkeit, they all need to come. Torah unites everyone.”

In a tone of self-reflection, Rav Cohen admitted, “Somewhere along the way, we failed to ‘sell’ the value of Torah. Torah is the greatest start-up in the world. That avreich sitting in a 40-square-meter apartment in Bnei Brak—because of him, there’s rain, there’s oxygen, there are miracles. ‘Lo brisi yomam valaylah’—the world exists only through Torah.”

Rav Cohen concluded with a personal appeal for continuous outreach: “Don’t wait for a draft law. Every bochur, grab a friend and learn Pirkei Avos with him for half an hour a week. Let him taste the sweetness of Torah, see its beauty, and he’ll come to love it on his own.”

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As preparations intensify for the massive atzeres tefillah in Yerushalayim tomorrow, the secretary of the Gerer Rebbe, Rav Yitzchok Broide, has issued a call urging all chassidim to take part in the historic gathering.

Gerer communities across the country have begun organizing large-scale transportation to Yerushalayim, where tens of thousands are expected to join together in tefillah and protest against the proposed giyus decree.

In a recorded message sent to chassidim throughout Eretz Yisroel, Rav Broide called on all avreichim and bochurim of the Gerer yeshivos to participate in the atzeres. The announcement did not include a directive for children to attend.

“We ask that the message be conveyed to all members of our community: anyone who is able should take part in the gathering of outcry and protest against the gezeiras giyus bnei hayeshivos, which will, b’ezras Hashem, take place this Thursday, 8 Cheshvan, in Yerushalayim. This includes avreichei hakollelim and bochurei hayeshivos vehamesivtos,” the message stated.

{Matzav.com}

A month after the State Prosecutor’s Office announced it would not investigate the leak of the video from Sde Teiman, the IDF announced on Wednesday afternoon that it is launching a criminal investigation into the affair, including an examination of the possible involvement of officials within the Military Advocate General’s Office. The IDF stated, “At […]

Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier. Hitting the new benchmark puts more emphasis on the upheaval being unleashed by an artificial intelligence craze that’s widely viewed as the biggest tectonic shift in technology since Apple co—founder […]

In a moving encounter Tuesday evening, Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva Rav Dov Landau warmly received Ariel Rosenzweig, a yeshiva bochur who was arrested last week during the shivah for his late father and later released.

The Rosh Yeshiva bentched him, saying, “Learn Torah and pay no attention to these wicked people who want to drag you into that terrible place — the army.”

He also offered words of nechamah for the loss of his father and blessed him that he should receive a full exemption from military service.

Ariel, a talmid at Yeshivas Neve Eretz, was arrested by the military police in the middle of shivah at his home in Ramat Gan. His father had passed away only days earlier. Despite the pleas and tears of his grieving family and the newly widowed mother, the bochur was taken from the house and imprisoned.

Following intense public outcry and political pressure, Ariel was eventually released from detention.

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A vacationer in Montego Bay, Jamaica surveys the damage to a luxury hotel from Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday night.

Chareidim arrested after storming Israel’s Supreme Court during a hearing on the IDF drafting yeshivaleit

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the Trump administration of committing horrific acts, alleging that “Black babies are being thrown in the back of vans” and “zip-tied in the middle of the night.”

The Las Vegas Police Department is rolling out a large fleet of Cybertruck police cars.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz signed an order prohibiting Red Cross visits to terrorists held in Israeli prisons.

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said dozens of Hamas commanders were eliminated after yesterday’s Rafah attack, warning there will be no immunity for Hamas leaders — “whoever raises a hand against IDF soldiers, his hand will be severed” — and that anyone who attacks soldiers or breaches agreements will pay the full price.

REPORTER: “Mr. President, could we get your reaction to Israel striking in Gaza again?” TRUMP: “From what I understand, they took out an Israeli soldier… I just heard about it a little while ago. They killed an Israeli soldier, so Israel hit back, and they should. When that happens, they have every right to respond.” […]