Yeshiva World News

BREAKING IN LAKEWOOD: A vehicle has overturned in an MVA directly in front of Town Appliance on Clifton Avenue. Police have shut down the area.

Al JAZEERA–QATAR CONFERENCE DISMISSES OCT. 7 ATROCITIES AS “FALSE ISRAELI REPORTS”: Qatar’s Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, together with Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, is hosting a two-day conference titled “International Media and the War on Gaza” on Nov. 29–30. According to the official Al Jazeera write-up, organizers claim that Western media and some […]

SHOCK: The Jewish community of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, was shaken Thursday evening after the famed Sadigua beis medrash, known as the “Kloiz Kadisha,” was set ablaze by a mentally unstable individual. The historic building — one of the most significant structures in the chasidic world — suffered heavy damage. According to officials, the arsonist entered the […]

Australia has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a state sponsor of terrorism, after intelligence agencies concluded the Tehran-backed force orchestrated antisemitic arson attacks on Jewish institutions in Sydney and Melbourne. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the move followed an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) assessment tying the IRGC to two attacks: the […]

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Tzachi Brim submitted a petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday on behalf of dozens of Chareidi residents demanding that Israel Police immediately stop its use of skunk spray in residential neighborhoods. The petition states that over the past year, skunk spray has been used frequently and aggressively in crowded Chareidi neighborhoods, […]

Shas MK Yaakov Margi, a resident of the Negev, delivered a scathing speech about the collapse of governance in the Negev from the Knesset plenum on Tuesday. Margi, who lives on a yishuv near the Bedouin city of Rahat, described a daily reality of gunfire and a constant flow of weapons into criminal hands. “Every […]

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. A single light-year is 6 trillion […]

The Jewish community of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, was shaken Thursday evening after the famed Sadigua beis medrash, known as the “Kloiz Kadisha,” was set ablaze by a mentally unstable individual. The historic building — considered one of the most significant structures in the entire chassidic world — suffered heavy damage. According to community officials, the arsonist […]

All year long, I find myself being asked the same question again and again: “What’s the halachah— and what’s the kashrus status— of vaping?” And all the time – particularly before Pesach – I run into the same wall: silence, confusion, and a sudden rush to talk about hashkafah instead of halachah. Let me be […]

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Thursday distributed to committee members the updated draft of the Chareidi conscription law, which includes a series of stricter measures added at the request of the legal advisers. Committee chairman MK Boaz Bismuth said, “This is it—we are moving forward with a balanced, responsible conscription law that […]

IRAN ROUTES CASH TO Hezbollah THROUGH DUBAI MONEY-EXCHANGES: According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. intelligence says Tehran funneled “hundreds of millions of dollars” over the past year to Hezbollah via money exchanges and private businesses in Dubai using informal networks to bypass disruption of traditional smuggling and transfer routes. The cash reportedly originates […]

Black Friday has become something of an anachronism in the e-commerce era. The day after Thanksgiving marks the official start of the holiday shopping season, but retailers already have spent weeks flooding their websites and customers’ email inboxes with early Black Friday offers. While sales trends have been shifting, the best bargains may still be […]

“All of you sitting here have the opportunity to transmit the halachos of eruvin to Klal Yisrael, both the limud, the learning of hilchos eruvin and the practical halachos of eruvin, your zechus is inestimable!” These enthusiastic words of HaGaon HaRav Yehuda Aryeh Dunner, shlita, a prominent posek living in Bnei Brak and Rav of Beis Medrash […]

The Cadillac Escalade which drove the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel around Eretz Yisroel the past week brought the Rebbe to the foot of the airplane as he flies back to the United States.

Volunteers from Hatzalah in Bnei Brak formed a moving convoy on Wednesday as they accompanied the late veteran responder Rabbi Moshe Mor z”l, who passed away suddenly. Rabbi Mor was among the long-serving and most dedicated members of the organization, known for decades of quiet chessed and lifesaving work throughout the city. His unexpected passing […]

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a successful launch Thursday. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off at 2:27 p.m. (9:27 a.m. GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-28 into orbit. The spacecraft carried NASA astronaut Chris […]

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is suing the Trump administration over cuts to SNAP benefits for noncitizens and its intensified anti-fraud measures.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on Thursday announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election, in what the main opposition candidate called a ploy to prevent him from taking over power. The military high command inaugurated Gen. Horta Inta-A as the head of the military government, which […]

BORO PARK: FDNY firefighters are on scene at 4916 13th Avenue after a fire broke out inside a store. Firefighters moved quickly and brought the blaze under control shortly after arrival. No injuries reported.