Sirens will sound at 10 a.m., followed by wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem, March of the Living in Poland

'Times remind us of the 1930s,' Hedy Bohm says at Birkenau, amid surge of anti-Semitic incidents around the world

Rav Asher Margulies, a Yerushalmi mekubal, author of Kumi V’Roni
Rav Yehuda Kahana, the Kuntres Hasefeikos (1819)
Rav Levi Yitzchak (ben Moshe) Greenwald, the Tzelemer Rav (1980). He arrived in America in 1939, just before the onset of WW2, after his Beis Medrash was destroyed on Kristellnacht, and he re-established his Beis Medrash in Williamsburg. He also established one of the first Chasidishe yeshivos in America, Arugas Habosem, named after his father, the Chuster Rav, who was known as the Arugas Habosem.

New York – “The Mueller Report” is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sold just under 42,000 copies last week, NPD BookScan reported Wednesday. Jointly edited by Scribner and The Washington Post, it sold more than any [...]

Recently reports in the Israeli media state that members of the Likud party are trying to woo new MKs from the Blue and White Party to jump ship and join Likud, so that the party can establish a government without having to include Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party.

Washington – The arrest of an Army veteran in a plot to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California is the result of a confidential informant’s work. Court documents show that Mark Domingo was nabbed after the informant steered him away from impulsive gun attacks, offered opportunities to drop the plot and eventually led [...]

Powerful and inspirational remarks by Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson at the “Peace & Unity Gathering” in response to the terror attack in the Chabad Synsagogue of Poway, CA., on Shabbat, the last day if Passover, April 27, 2019. This lecture, which brought together many communities from NJ, took place at Chabad at Short Hills, NJ, two days later, on Monday, April 29, 2019, during the funeral of Lori Kay, who was murdered in the Poway Chabad Center.
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If anyone thought that the fact that there is no coalition yet will slow the 21st Knesset down from getting to work early, they were wrong. A total of some 900 new bills were proposed by members of the Knesset during the first two days of office.
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Washington – The number of survivors may be dwindling, but the State Department’s envoy on Holocaust issues says the issue of restitution still lingers. Thomas Yazdgerdi, the special envoy for Holocaust issues, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday that he is preparing a report to Congress due in November that assesses what countries in [...]