In a investigative report released by Kikar HaShabbat, it has come to light that a Conservative-affiliated nonprofit organization allegedly funded the printing and distribution of street posters and pashkevilim in chareidi neighborhoods across Israel, spending tens of thousands of shekels on the campaign. These materials were aimed at dissuading participation in the upcoming elections for the World Zionist Organization (WZO). The report also reveals covert attempts to recruit chareidi journalists under the guise of a “campaign against avodah zarah” in an effort to manipulate public opinion within the frum world.

On Isru Chag, the second yahrtzeit of the beloved singer and baal menagen, R’ Michoel Schnitzler z”l, whose stirring songs continue to move the hearts of thousands even after his passing, was marked.

For the past year, Dan Hoffman, of Hollywood, Fla., has watched his 11-year-old daughter Nessa train several hours a day, five days a week for the 2025 USA Gymnastics Florida Xcel women’s championships.
The Hoffmans, who are frum Jews, planned each of Nessa’s meets around Shabbos and Yomim Tovim, but it turned out that the Florida championships were to be held over the first days of Pesach.
“This has been a tremendous part of her life for the last year, and then literally, two weeks before, it was ripped away,” Hoffman told JNS. “We considered scootering the 8.2 miles to the Florida Convention Center on the Sunday between seders, which would have been a disaster.”

According to new demographic research from the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the global community is expected to lose 70% of its Holocaust survivors within the next decade, and 90% over the next 15 years. The findings will be unveiled at a major conference scheduled for Tuesday.
The report, titled Vanishing Witnesses: An Urgent Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust Survivors, estimates that by the year 2040, the number of survivors worldwide will dwindle to approximately 21,300.

During remarks on Monday in Yerushalayim, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfas, spoke critically about recent decisions issued by the Israeli Supreme Court, asserting that such rulings lack halachic legitimacy when they run counter to Torah law.
Rav Eliyahu emphasized that these types of rulings carry no halachic authority and explained that his position is firmly grounded in classical Jewish sources.

The Petach Tikvah community is mourning the passing of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Grossman zt”l, a beloved askan and baal chessed who was a pillar of chessed and Torah in the city. He was 70 years old.
Rabbi Grossman passed away following a brief and sudden illness, having suffered from pulmonary edema.
His levayah took place Monday evening, departing from his home in Petach Tikvah to the Segulah Cemetery, where he was laid to rest.
Born on 8 Iyarin 1954, Rabbi Grossman was the a of Reb Yitzchok Dovid Grossman zt”l, founder of the Gan Construction Company, and tbl”c Mrs. Pesia Grossman.

An A.I. video generated by a group calling itself the Temple Mount Activists envisioning a miraculous reestablishment of the Bais Hamikdosh led Qatar to condemn “plans” to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque, in a statement put out by its foreign ministry on April 19.
“The State of Qatar strongly condemns reports of plans by groups affiliated with Israeli occupation organizations to destroy the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with the so-called Temple,” the Ministry statement said.
“Qatar considers this a dangerous provocation that could significantly escalate violence in the region, especially amid the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip,” it added.

A dramatic and highly unusual scene at a Pesach fair held at the Haifa Port Terminal has sparked attention online: A young chareidi man arrived with his family and purchased every item of chametz—including all the beer and pizzas being sold at the event—and then demanded that they be publicly destroyed.
According to a report published by Walla, the man paid a staggering 83,200 shekels to the bar operators, insisted they sign a declaration pledging not to sell chametz during the Yom Tov, and personally supervised as dozens of beer kegs were emptied and the pizzas were thrown away and incinerated.

Where can I buy chometz? Where is it problematic? Rabbi Yakov Teichman – Rabbinic Coordinator at the OK, gives us the full scoop.
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