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Additional footage shows air defense systems intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles over Israel.

The IDF has issued an evacuation notice to the Evin neighborhood of Tehran, located near the IRIB broadcasting building.

CENTCOM Update: Six U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran’s initial attacks in the region.

Ah Freilichen Purim, Rabbosai. Ah! Krias megillah by the world’s most popular daf yomi maggid shiur, Rabbi Eli Stefansky.

IRGC Advisor Brigadier General Sardar Ebrahim Jabbari: Strait of Hormuz is closed. Anyone who wants to pass, our self-sacrificing heroes in the IRGC Navy and the Army will set those ships on fire.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted amid the U.S. and Israeli offensive against Iran — dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” — finds that roughly one in four Americans approve of President Trump’s decision to order military strikes that resulted in the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The national survey, conducted Saturday and Sunday in […]

As Klal Yisroel prepares to celebrate Purim with simcha, Rav Boruch Hirschfeld, Rosh Kollel of Torah Life Institute in Cleveland, is encouraging ways to elevate the Yom Tov while keeping Acheinu Bais Yisroel in mind. Rav Hirschfeld offered two simple suggestions: 1. Increase limud torah on Purim — each person according to his level — […]

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment. It’s only the second time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a new supreme leader is being chosen. Potential candidates range from hard-liners committed to confrontation with the West to […]

Iranian state media released a video purportedly showing Iranian forces shooting down an Israeli Heron drone.

PURIM BEGINS IN ERETZ YISROEL: Harav Dov Landau shlit”a seen in Shul this evening at Krias Megillah.

Banging when reading “Haman” at the Minyan of the Yenuka tonight.

Video shows the aftermath at Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura oil refinery following Iranian drone strikes earlier today.

Head of the Intelligence Directorate, MG Shlomi Binder: “We are sending a clear message to our enemies — there is no place where we will not find them. In 40 seconds, we eliminated more than 40 of the most important people in Iran — and we are not finished.”

As Operation Roaring Lion continues, many asked shailos on how to act if a siren sounds in the middle of Kriyas Megillah. The following piskei halacha by HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein were published on the Siach Yitzchak hotline, based on clear instructions he issued before Purim during the 1991 Gulf War. A. Can one recite […]

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Singing at the main Vishnitzer Bais Hamedrash following Megilah Leining tonight.