The Lag B’Omer tragedy in Meron shook us all to our core. All of us. Together. Moments like these are ways for Jewish brothers and sisters of all backgrounds to
Israel’s president on Wednesday tapped opposition leader Yair Lapid to form a new government — a step that could lead to the end of the lengthy rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President Reuven Rivlin announced his decision on live television a day after Netanyahu failed to cobble together a governing coalition by a midnight […]
Yakir Asaraf, a secular Israeli, who like many others was shocked by the immensity of the Meron tragedy, decided that he had to do something to share in the families’
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Yosef Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander’s trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, Israeli media reported. He was 91. The cause of death was not immediately released. Kleinman was one of fewer than 180,000 remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel. Kleinman was born […]
Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook – for now. The social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board voted to uphold his ban from the platform after his account was suspended four months ago for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. While uploading the suspension, the board faulted Facebook for the […]
Following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s failure to form a government by the Tuesday at midnight deadline, President Reuven Rivlin met on Wednesday morning with the two main candidates for forming a government — opposition leader Yair Lapid and Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett. By Wednesday afternoon, Lapid had received 56 recommendations, the members of the Yesh […]
Menachem Schwartz, who heads the Chareidi department of Jerusalem’s Social Services, spoke to Kikar H’Shabbat about the harrowing hours he endured while speaking to the families of the Meron victims
After many many years of Egged’s monopoly of Jerusalem’s bus lines, Superbus will be taking over many of the capital city’s bus lines over the next several years, The Jerusalem
Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin, the head of Chinuch Atzmai in Israel, spoke to the Rosh Yeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, on Monday on various chinuch issues ahead of a conference for
Rav Meir Nachman Elhadad, the bereaved father of two sons who lost their lives in the Meron disaster, somehow finds the fortitude to urge his visitors during shiva to use
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Israel’s Health Ministry stated on Monday that it has found two cases of the Brazilian coronavirus variant in travelers returning to Israel from abroad. The variant was found in a
In a rare visit to Mea Shearim, Rav Dovid Lau, the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel paid a shiva call to the family of Reb Dovid Krois, z’l,
Former President Donald Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday, when the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board plans to announce its ruling in the high-profile case. The decision likely to stir up strong feelings no matter which way it goes. If the board rules in Trump’s favor, Facebook has […]
Chai Lifeline joins all of Klal Yisroel in mourning those lost in the Lag B’Omer tragedy in Meron. We express our sincerest condolences to their families and our thoughts and tefilos are with all the injured and impacted. In response to this far-reaching traumatic event, Chai Lifeline presents “The Meron Tragedy: Helping Our Children Cope” […]
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COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.” India’s official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million Tuesday, nearly doubling in the past three […]
Only three days after Donny Morris, z’l, lost his life in the Meron disaster on Lag B’Omer, his friends gathered near the “walkway of death” and sang songs in his
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