Rabbi Dovid Kaminetsky Is Niftar
We regret to inform you of the sudden passing of Rabbi Dovid Kaminetsky, beloved father of Katz Yeshiva High School Executive Director Shimmie Kaminetsky, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach...
French Pilot on Flight Hijacked to Entebbe Dies at 95
Michel Bacos, the Air France pilot who, along with his crew, stayed with Israeli and Jewish hostages during the July 1976 hijacking that diverted the plane to Uganda’s Entebbe...
Joe Mermelstein: A Great Man
By Joseph Frager, MD
It is an honor and a privilege to write about great individuals, especially those who tremendously impacted my own life and politics. Joe Mermelstein, z’l, was...
Unspoken Eulogy: A Hesped for Chaim Moshe ben Binyamin Tzvi
By Yochanan Gordon
The following is a eulogy I wrote for my dear brother-in-law, Chaim Moshe ben Binyamin Tzvi, the morning of his levayah, just one week ago. Circumstances precluded...
Jewish-American Among 21 Victims of Nairobi Terrorist Attack
BY RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Jason Spindler, a Jewish American whose life was changed when he survived the 9/11 attack in New York, was killed in a terrorist attack in...
Eulogy for Rabbi Moshe Gottesman, zt’l
By Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
Rav, Young Israel of Oceanside
The following is the eulogy I delivered December 4 at the funeral.
We are here to mourn the passing of Rav Moshe Gottesman,...
Chief Rabbi of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, Passes Away at 84
Chief Rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, passed away on March 30 at the age of 84.
Landau served in his position for...
Community Mourns the Loss of Dr. Marvin (Mordechai) Pollack z”l
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The Borough Park and Five Towns/Far Rockaway communities mourn the loss of an extraordinary individual: Dr. Marvin (Mordechai) Pollack, z”l. Dr. Pollack was a...
The Legacy of HaRav Chanina Herzberg, zt’l
HaRav Chanina Herzberg was niftar on motzaei Shabbos, December 15. He was the Menahel of Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore for nearly 40 years.
Growing up in East New...
Rona Ramon, Widow of Astronaut Ilan Ramon, Dies of Cancer
Rona Ramon, widow of late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon and the mother of late IAF pilot Assaf Ramon, passed away on Monday.
Ramon was married to the first Israeli astronaut...
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Passover Seder to Be Celebrated in Former Warsaw Ghetto
For the first time since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 100 Diaspora Jewish families will celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption in the heart...
19 Ways You Know It’s Passover in Israel
If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out “alter zachen” (“old things”) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations in Jerusalem. It’s part...
SAR to Stop Accepting Religious Exemptions For Vaccines
NEW YORK (JTA) — A prominent Modern Orthodox school in New York City will no longer accept religious exemptions to vaccination from its students.
Salanter...
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