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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Monsey stabbing victim R’ Yosef Neiman Z”L. He As YWN reported at the time, R Yosef was brutally stabbed during the horrific Chanukah Monsey attack at Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul. He was in and out of the hospital since then, and was Niftar on Sunday afternoon. Boruch […]

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Many are suffering tremendous financial losses, our Yeshivaleit and rebbeim among them. Keren Bnei Torah was started four years ago under the N’sius of R Elya Ber Wachfogel Shlita and with the support of all the gedolim in America with the goal of providing hundreds of thousands of dollars of financial support for B’nei Torah, […]

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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Nachman Morgan Z”TL, a pillar of the Los Angeles community for over 35 years. The Niftar was a Rebbe in Yeshiva Toras Emmes in Los Angeles for many years, and spent years learning Bichavrusa with Bochrim, Yungerleit, and children – literally day and night. He […]

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The Tosh Orthodox Jewish Community in Boisbriand is asking for help from Laurentian Public Health and the Boisbriand municipality police department to enforce a quarantine of their community of 4,000 people. Community officials made this decision after receiving the partial results of the tests that were carried out on a hundred people living in the […]

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Mrs. Perel Weisel, 94, passed away on Sunday at Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak after she tested positive for the coronavirus. Mrs. Weisel was born in Romania, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. Her father, Rav Yaakov Shalom Rosenfeld, z’tl, was a Rav and had close ties with the Rebbe, Rav Eliezer Wolf of Kretchnif, and other […]

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Government authorities in many countries have issued orders to cremate all coronavirus victims and ZAKA organizations around the world are struggling to find solutions for Jewish meisim. In England, after much effort by both Jewish and Muslim religious leaders, the government agreed to include a stipulation to the law that victims whose families object to […]

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Due to the current situation, many Jews are faced with the inability to say Kaddish. When a person passes away the soul ascends to the heavenly court where it must face judgment for all the actions performed during its lifetime. Based on this judgment, the soul will be rewarded for its merits and punished for its […]

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According to current Health Ministry data, the four communities with the highest percentage of confirmed coronavirus cases are Chareidi, prompting the Finance Ministry’s Director-General Shai Babad to suggest locking down those communities at a government meeting on Sunday morning. Some reports said that the preparations have already been made and the authorities are just waiting […]

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New York state’s coronavirus death toll is nearing 1,000. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. The state accounts for more than 40% of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. The number of disease-related deaths in the state jumped Sunday to 965 from 728 the day before, Cuomo said. The vast majority have been in New York City. Figures […]

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Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Men seem to be faring worse than women. And as cases skyrocket in the U.S. and Europe, it’s becoming more clear that how healthy you […]

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The city of Strasbourg in eastern France has one of the largest Jewish communities in France outside of Paris and according to the chief rabbi, a majority of the community is most likely already infected with the coronavirus. Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, Rav Avraham Weill, told Israel’s Army Radio on Friday that one member of […]

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Agudah’s Live Teleconference TONIGHT! Hachana L’Seder, featuring Rabbi Yisroel Reisman at 10:00 p.m. (English), and Chayav Adam Liros Es Atzmo Keilu Hu Yotza MiMitzrayim, featuring Rabbi Elya Brudny at 10:30 p.m. (Yiddish). Call 929.219.1197

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As President Donald Trump looks for ways to restore normalcy in parts of the U.S., his foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal […]

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The Jewish communities of New York and New Jersey are reeling, as COVID-19 rips through its population, robbing us prematurely of many precious neshamos. New York’s coronavirus death toll is nearing 100,000, and Governor Andrew Cuomo estimates that there will be “millions of cases.” Funerals in Crown Heights have been postponed due to the high […]

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HERE IS WHAT JARED KUSHNER SAYS ABOUT A . I . S T O N E SHIRTS…. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING….. That’s because Mr Kushner lives in DC and he is busy MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! If he would live in NY and send his kids to Chaim Berlin or similar… And he would get his news from Yeshiva […]

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The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won’t fix the problem facing doctors and nurses: a critical shortage of protective gowns, gloves and masks. The problem isn’t a lack of money, experts say. It’s that there’s not enough of those supplies available to […]

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In light of the rapidly increasing cases of the coronavirus in Bnei Brak and other Chareidi areas, Harav Chaim Kanievsky instructed the rabbanim of Bnei Brak on Sunday that each person should daven in yechidus and not in a minyan since it’s a matter of pikuach nefesh. Harav Chaim also condemned anyone who violates Israel’s […]

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Rav Menachem Mordechai Nissim, z;l, a well-known figure in Crown Heights, passed away on Friday at the age of 69 after testing positive for the coronavirus just a few days earlier. Rav Nissim, 69, the famed owner of a toy store on Kingston Boulevard, grew up in Israel and came to New York to learn […]

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‘Sheva Tiheyenoh’ has the full written haskomoh of Hagaon Rav Mattisyahu Doitch shlita (Dayan of Bedatz Eidah Chareidis Yerusholayim, Moreh D’Asrah Ramat Shlomo) to supply the Kamayoh of the tzaddik Rav Avrohom Chamuy Ztz’l for protection not only from ayin horah, but according to Rav Chamuy’s own words- “tried and tested a thousand times…he will […]

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There are 3,865 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel, with 64 in serious condition and 82 in moderate condition. A 15th death from the coronavirus was announced late Sunday afternoon by Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital when Rosa Sherman Arbel, a’h, 84, was niftar. Rosa’s family said that “she was a devoted mother and grandmother who […]

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