In Koloshova, the family of R’ Binyomin Kamenetsky was not particularly distinguished. A Torah-observant home where the father worked and earned a respectable livelihood, things would have remained just the same had Heaven not ordained otherwise. In an interesting twist of fate, the father of Reb Binyomin, a timber-dealer and owner of a large flour [...]
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Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l, On His 24th Yahrtzeit, Today, 29 Adar
Tel Aviv, Israel – A seven-year-old boy sustained moderate to serious wounds when he was attacked by a dog in a south Tel Aviv park on Sunday. The boy was evacuated to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer with deep facial lacerations.
The boy’s mother suffered from shock and collapsed. She was also hospitalized.
The [...]
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Tel Aviv, Israel – Mother and Son Hospitalized After 7-Year-Old Attacked by Dog
The community of Ariel has grown from tents on a hilltop to a city of 20,000 and recently has been dubbed Samaria’s “capital.”
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Brooklyn, NY – In the days before Gov. David Paterson’s already-embattled administration began to implode in an alleged cover-up scandal involving a top aide, Paterson reportedly agreed to allocate $500,000 to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in the Orthodox Jewish community, The Jewish Week has learned.
The funds were sought by Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov [...]
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4:10PM EST: South Fallsburg, NY – With a heavy heart, YWN regrets to inform our readership of the tragic Petira of a 4-year-old child in South Fallsburg, NY – next to Yeshiva Zichron Moshe. The child was reportedly struck by a vehicle, and was pronounced dead a short time later at the local hospital. Fallsburg [...]
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A horrifying 911 bungle may have cost a young boy his life yesterday, sources told The NY Post.
Firefighters and medics rushed to a call of a 6-year-old boy in cardiac arrest at 277 Ave. C at 9:04 a.m. But they were sent to Avenue C in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan.
By the time paramedics reached the [...]
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Tel Aviv, Israel – Susan Zinkin divorced her husband in 1962 but was forbidden from looking for new love for almost 50 years. Only when he died an old man this week was she released from being a “chained wife” under Jewish law.
Ms Zinkin, 73, a retired Orthodox Jewish teacher from north London, divorced Israel [...]
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Tel Aviv – Longest Serving ‘Agunah’ Finally Breaks Free After 48 Years
Jerusalem activist Aryeh King says Mayor Barkat’s solution for illegal Arab housing will have catastrophic consequences.
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Deerfield, IL – Walgreen is buying New York metro drugstore operator Duane Reade Holdings to expand in the New York City metropolitan area.
Walgreen says the deal is worth about $1.075 billion, but that includes an undisclosed amount of debt.
The deal would include all 257 Duane Reade stores in the New York City metropolitan area, along [...]
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Deerfield, IL – Walgreen Buying NY Drugstore Chain Duane Reade
Jerusalem – Bnei Brak Mayor Rabbi Yaacov Asher on Tuesday slammed National Council for the Child chairman Dr. Yitzhak Kadman after the latter said that the ultra-Orthodox city is known as Israel’s pedophile capital.
Asher noted that “according to police data, Bnei Brak has one of the lowest crime rates in the country, even though it [...]
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Jerusalem – Bnei Brak Charedi Mayor: ‘Pedophile Capital’ Remarks Vile And Baseless
