BDH: Gavad Zurich Hagaon R’ Moishe Chaim Shmerler ZT”L Passes Away
Hagaon R’ Moishe Chaim Shmerler who led the ‘Machzikay Hadas’ community in Zurich for many years, passed away in Yerushalayim this morning
Moishe Wiseberg
18.07.17
Hagaon R’ Moishe Chaim Shmerler who led the ‘Machzikay Hadas’ community in Zurich for many years, passed away in Yerushalayim this morning
Moishe Wiseberg
18.07.17
Singer Ruly Dickman, musician Rubbie Bennett and two players were on their way to a wedding in Tiberias, when their car ran into a road accident and was hit hard • passengers unharmed
Concern among Jews of Turkey • Turkish political insiders blame the Jewish community, that five of its members allegedly participated in the deadly takeover of Marmara • "Blood Libel"
Baltz Landhardt, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, previously belonged to the Jobik right movement, sparked an Israeli flag during a demonstration near the Hungarian Foreign Ministry
As promised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the government passed a law that would allow the performance of circumcision • 434 MPs supported the law, compared with only a hundred opponents
Breslev chassidim from Israel and around the world will come to Uman, Ukraine for Shabbos Chanukah, despite the severe weather • The clinic will operate for the first time on Pushkina Street: "You must get dressed with warm clothes"
In Dordrecht, the Netherlands, an actual size Noah's Ark was completed • The Ark is filled with animals, some real and alive • The builder's next project: a canal from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea
On Motzei Shabbos Rabbi Chaim Steinberg z"l stepped out on the same day of his 83rd birthday to the Ohel Torah synagogue in Manchester – to daven Maariv • A speeding car hit him - and he was killed instantly
Chief Rabbi of Russia, Hagr"b Lazar lit the menorah erected in front of the Kremlin, and thousands of participants broke into Hasidic songs • the gathering was broadcasted on the Russian media
Members of the Jewish community in Sweden are shocked: Swedish artist used the ashes of Holocaust victims for one of his works • Holocaust survivor: "Some of the ash might belong to my family"
Large crowd led by rabbis and public figures from around the world, participated at the inauguration of a magnificent building close to the grave of the Baal HaTanya
An orthodox businessman victim to a sophisticated fraud: $4 million from a secret account in Switzerland emptied • concern that details of orthodox account owners are in the hands of the gangsters
During a snowstorm and temperatures of minus 22, Rabbi Eliyahu Rees's car was hit in a severe traffic accident: his vehicle collided with a truck and was heavily damaged - but he escaped unharmed
Two people were arrested on suspicion of helping Mohammed Marrah, the terrorist who killed Yonathan Sandler and his two sons and Miriam Monsonego age 8, in a murderous terrorist attack eight months ago
Police arrested a yeshiva student in the neighborhood of Stamford Hill, a son of a Torah figure in the city. The reason: Following an argument with the cab driver concerning money, he fled to his home without paying.
Napoleon Bonaparte's letter, in which he boasted about his intentions to blow up the Kremlin, was sold for close to $ 250,000
Jamie Aguiar's attorney, wife of the Jewish businessman who disappeared, continues to claim: the billionaire is still alive • Will his sister's move to Holland provide new details in the mysterious case?
Constitutional Court of Poland decided: You cannot allow a Jewish ritual slaughter of animals • Jewish community: "The decision is contrary to the EU Constitution which requires freedom of religion"
Rabbi Shmuel Akiva Shlesinger, Rabbi of the Etz Chaim community in Strasbourg, donated a Sefer Torah L'Illui Nishmat his father. Rabbi's and public figures throughout France came to participate in the community's celebration
70 years later, the Norwegian government apologizes for its collaboration with the Nazis • More than 700 Jews in the country were arrested and sent to Auschwitz • Jewish community: "it's never too late"
At the age of 86, Hrh"ch Rev Avraham Yaakov Moskowitz z"l passed away in Antwerp, he was a senior Belzer chassid. His son is the Dayan in Antwerp, and his son in law is Gabbai of the Belzer Rebbe
Following rumors spread about Rabbi Chaim Halperin, community Rabbi in the British capital, he resigned his position as a Dayan in Kedathia and the Rabbinate • His father, the Hagr"e Halperin, joined his with a dramatic step
A new exhibition in Kaliningrad in Russia: the life of Chianou Sugihara, a righteous among the nations Japanese diplomat, who saved thousands of Jews who fled to Lithuania during the Holocaust
British chief rabbi was invited for a short sermon at the BBC • without warning he was asked about the 'violence in Gaza "• Rabbi also not warned that his words are broadcast live
339 meters - is the height of 'Mercury City', Moscow tower which conquered the title 'tallest building in Europe '• However, the tower is still far from Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which towers to the height of 828 meters
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law prohibiting fathers to 3 or more children to be fired, in order to encourage childbirth • the mother's maternity leave in Russia - 3 years
Ministry of Education frauds suspected through fictitious organizations attorneys allegedly rejected accusations • "The police rushed to arrest them before having real evidence"
Abdalgani Jarrah - terrorist's brother from Toulouse, Mohammad Jarrah - reveals what led his brother to massacring Jews • "My mother always said: "We are Arabs, we were born to hate the Jews"
Russian, Swiss and French specialists will cooperate in testing remains of the former head of the Palestinian Authority - Yasser Arafat • Arafat's family opposed to the opening of his grave
Those who came to the Tziun of the Rebbes at the Belza village discovered the site and facilities were harmed by acts of vandalism • Security cameras stunned: the perpetrators are young Haredim
A group of American Chassidim who were on a trip of Kivrei Tzadikim in the Ukraine were caught in a traffic accident on the way to the grave of the Ba'al HaTanya