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Boy Missing in Boro Park; Major Search Underway

July 12, 2011
Boy Missing in Boro Park; Major Search Underway

Boro Park, NY – A New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services Missing Child Alert has been issued relating to the disappearance of Leibby Kleztky. Kletzky did not return from the Boyan Day Camp, located at 1205 44th Street, after the session ended at approximately 5 p.m.

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Fire At Kehilat Yeshuren in Manhattan

July 11, 2011
Fire At Kehilat Yeshuren in Manhattan

Manhattan: 120 East 85 St. & Lexington Ave, Box 1157, Battalion10 Transmitting a Fourth Alarm for a fire in a synagogue, Flames showing from the roof with exposures. With possible people trapped inside. Hatzolah Ems staging on scene with ALS & BLS. Fire is DWH.

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Litzman Against Smoking; Charedim Not Happy

July 3, 2011

Jerusalem – Ultra-Orthodox public slams deputy health minister over his decision to back cabinet’s anti-smoking plan. ‘It’s about saving lives,’ Litzman insists Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman is being criticized from within his own public, after the government approved a national plan to help reduce smoking in Israel. In recent days, the deputy minister’s...

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Petira of Rav Chaim Stein Z”L – Levaya Information

June 29, 2011

Cleveland – Baruch Dayan Emes, Hagaon Rav Chaim Stein Z”L, was Niftar. The Levaya will take place tomorrow Thursday, 28 Sivan, 5771 / June 30, 2011 Starting at 9:00 AM in the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland.

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PHOTOS – State of Emergency Declared for Rockland County Due to Flooding

June 23, 2011
PHOTOS – State of Emergency Declared for Rockland County Due to Flooding

Monsey, NY – Major flooding is being reported in Monsey, New Square, Monroe & in all surrounding areas. Floods are causing a few feet of water in areas. Cars are stuck and can’t move, people are staying in there houses.

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Opponents of Banning Brissim File Lawsuit

June 22, 2011

San Francisco, CA -  An unlikely coalition of Jews and Muslims on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block a San Francisco ballot measure that would ban the circumcision of male children, a procedure widely practiced by members of both faiths. The case filed in San Francisco Superior Court asks the court to remove the...

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Man Burned in New Square Released From Hospital

June 21, 2011
Man Burned in New Square Released From Hospital

New Square, NY – The Hassidic man critically burned in a fiery religious dispute in Rockland has been released from the hospital. Police say Aron Rottenberg suffered burns over 50 percent of his body last month when he tried to stop Shaul Spitzer, 18, from fire bombing his house.

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Jonathan Pollard To Be Released – Rumor False

June 21, 2011
Jonathan Pollard To Be Released – Rumor False

Washington – Sources say Accused spy Jonathan Pollard to be released tomorrow for good, Obama to sign pardon at 7am. THIS IS A RUMOR, AND FALSE.

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Frum Brooklyn Boy Dead After Fall in Las Vegas

June 20, 2011
Frum Brooklyn Boy Dead After Fall in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV – Police say a 19-year-old from New York City who died in a fall from the 10th floor of a Las Vegas Strip resort parking structure might have been trying to take a photo of the Las Vegas skyline. The Clark County coroner’s office on Monday identified the dead man as...

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Rav Elyashiv To Undergo Surgery

June 19, 2011
Rav Elyashiv To Undergo Surgery

Eretz Yisroel – Tension in the Torah world over the operation of the Posek Hador Maran Harav Elyashiv which is begining now in Yerushulayim. In the morning he was admitted to the Hadas Eein Kerem hospital, to run a series of preliminary tests before the operation.

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Serious Accident in Boro Park

June 19, 2011
Serious Accident in Boro Park

Boro Park, NY – Hatzolah is on scene of a motor vehicle accident at 13th Avenue and 52nd Street. A few Bocherim are in serious condition. Hatzolah is requesting more ambulances too respond to the scene. The patients are reported to be in serious condition.

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Petira of Harav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman Z”L

June 17, 2011
Petira of Harav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman Z”L

BD”E: Petirah of Harav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman Z”L, zkan Rosh Yeshiva of Lucerne Yeshiva at the age of 106.

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Explosion Rocks Building in Netanya

June 16, 2011
Explosion Rocks Building in Netanya

Israel – An explosion rocked a four-story building in Netanya overnight Thursday, leaving three people dead and 33 others injured. The cause of the explosion was initially unknown, although Police were increasingly certain that the blast was caused by a gas tank. A resident close to the scene of the bombing told Israel Radio...

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Community Searching For Missing Yeshiva Bochur in New York

June 15, 2011
Community Searching For Missing Yeshiva Bochur in New York

New York – Community leaders, activists, and volunteers are searching for a missing Yeshiva Bochur what smissing already for Ten Days, and are asking for the communities assistance in locating him. They are looking for Micha Hausman, a 28-year-old Yeshiva Bochur from Switzerland, currently learning in the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns (Rabbi...

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US Congressman Writes Bill to Protect Brissim

June 15, 2011

US Rep. Brad Sherman will introduce a bill to prevent cities from banning male circumcision, the California lawmaker’s office said. Sherman’s bill, which his office announced Tuesday, comes in response to a measure that qualified recently for the November ballot in San Francisco that would outlaw the circumcision of males under the age of...

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Community Rallies Around Graffitied Chabad Center

June 13, 2011

As police investigate what they call a “hate crime” at a Jewish center in Boise, Idaho, others in the community are trying to right the wrong. “Obviously when we arrived, we were appalled,” said Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz, Director of the Chabad Jewish Center.

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Egyptian Authorities Arrest Mossad Agent

June 12, 2011

Cairo – Egyptian authorities have detained an alleged Israeli agent and are interrogating him on suspicion of spying and trying to influence protesters during the popular uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, a court official and the prosecution spokesman said Sunday. The prosecution spokesman Adel el-Said said the suspect was arrested Sunday and is...

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Pollard Learns Father is Dying, Issues New Requests For Release

June 11, 2011
Pollard Learns Father is Dying, Issues New Requests For Release

Advocates for the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard redoubled their efforts this weekend to persuade US President Barack Obama to enable him to visit his visit his father on his deathbed . Pollard received a call from his brother Harvey that their father Morris, 95, was hospitalized at Memorial Hospital and Health System...

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Kiddush Clubs Declare Boycott on Scottish Whiskey

June 11, 2011
Kiddush Clubs Declare Boycott on Scottish Whiskey

The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC) – a partnership of 250 Jewish men’s clubs that claims more than 25,000 members throughout North America – has joined with synagogues both in Israel and in the diaspora in “suggesting a boycott of scotch from distillers located in West Dunbartonshire Council in Scotland at Kiddush and...

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13 Treated For Carbon Monoxide Exposure in Teaneck After a Stove is Left on Over Jewish Shavuos

June 10, 2011

Teaneck — Thirteen people were taken to area hospitals Thursday morning with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas oven was left on for at least two days in a house on Brinkerhoff Avenue, authorities said. The injuries were not believed to be serious and most of the victims were treated and released...

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Man Forced Out of New Square Charged With Driving Without a License

June 10, 2011

Ramapo, NY – A 33-year-old man who says he was harassed out of New Square for not praying in the village’s synagogue has been charged with driving without a license in Stony Point. David Fromowitz was stopped during a seat belt- check stop by a town officer, police said Tuesday.

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Judge Orders Village to Pay Bikur Cholim for Discrimination

June 10, 2011

Suffern, NY – A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended that the village pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to a nonprofit agency and several others who sued the village, claiming their religious rights had been violated. According to court documents filed Friday, Magistrate Judge George A. Yanthis recommended that Suffern pay...

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Jewish College Student Missing in Indiana

June 6, 2011

Police, family and friends are searching for Lauren Spierer, a sophomore at Indiana University who is missing. Spierer, 20, who is Jewish, has been missing since early on the morning of June 3, the Indiana Daily Student reported.

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Rabbi Metzger: I Won’t Seek 2nd Term, Unless Rabbis Tell Me To

June 6, 2011
Rabbi Metzger: I Won’t Seek 2nd Term, Unless Rabbis Tell Me To

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger has confirmed that he would not seek a second term as chief rabbi, unless ordered to do so by senior rabbis. Speaking with The Jerusalem Post on Saturday night, he relayed details from a trip to Spain he took alongside Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar last week, noting the...

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10 Suffer Smoke Inhalation in Jerusalem Fire

June 6, 2011

Mea Shearim – A fire broke out at the third and fourth floors in an apartment building on Aharon Fischel Street in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sunday night. Hatzolah and MDA paramedics treated some ten people at the scene of the fire who were lightly injured by smoke inhalation.

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14 Dead In Israeli Border Gunfire

June 5, 2011

Golan Heights – Israeli troops opened fire Sunday at a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to break into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from neighboring Syria, killing as many as 14 people and wounding scores in a burst of violence marking the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war. The casualty figures came from...

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11 Injured in Violent Eviction Near Shilo; Police Car Burnt

June 2, 2011
11 Injured in Violent Eviction Near Shilo; Police Car Burnt

Shilo – A large combined police-army force carried out what witnesses said was a “particularly violent” eviction at a Jewish outpost neighborhood this morning. The  site is Alei Ayin, near Shilo in the northern Binyamin bloc, some 30 kilometers north of Jerusalem. The forces threw a gas grenade into a home, hurled rocks at...

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Israel Navy Commandos Undergo Special Training Ahead of Next Gaza Flotilla

June 2, 2011

Members of the Israel Navy commando unit are currently engaged in special training meant to prepare them for a possibility that they would be called to block an international flotilla from reaching the Gaza shore in late June, the Ma’ariv daily reported on Monday. Several teams of the unit raided the Mavi Marmara, one...

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Police Told of Several Attacks Before New Square Man Was Burned

June 2, 2011

? New Square – Rottenberg and his friends called Ramapo police eight times in the fall, claiming they were being tormented for opting to pray outside of the Hasidic congregation, a Journal News review of police records shows. But although patrols were increased, detectives did not get involved until last month — when windows...

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Rabbi Kassin Gets Probation in Corruption Case

June 1, 2011
Rabbi Kassin Gets Probation in Corruption Case

Trenton, New Jersey – The spiritual leader of the Syrian Jewish community in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to two years of unsupervised probation for using a charity he controlled to illegally funnel money to Israel. Dressed in a black suit and a traditional black hat, 89-year-old Rabbi Saul Kassin appeared frail and...

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