One Dead in Shomron Shooting Attack

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One Israeli was R”L killed, and two others wounded when Palestinians opened fire on their vehicle, on Thursday evening. The incident occurred near the former settlement of Homesh • Full Story

13-year-old Jewish Girl Rescued from Muslim Home in Bolivia After Tiktok Exchange

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Relatives feared that Naomi Lloroff, the thirteen-year-old girl who went missing yesterday in Buenos Aires, had become acquainted with someone called Said Fanaya, who used TikTok to reachout to her, pretending to be a boy of her age from Bolivia. Naomi’s father appealed to the police to help, and Jewish organizations also stepped in, demanding enhanced search efforts to be made, in light of their suspicions that the girl had been abducted • Full Story

Shabbos in Russia’s Own 770

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A large group from Moscow’s Bolshaya Bronya community spent Shabbos in the Rominska campground outside of Moscow in celebration of a successful operation underwent by one of the members of the community. The recently renovated campground, built by venerated Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Kogan, even has its own replica 770. Rabbi Eliyahu Ezagui gave ChabadInfo.com a glimpse into the luxurious campground • Photos

Meron Closure Suspended After Govt Threatens To Take Over Site

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Earlier this week, the Va’adas HaChamisha sent a letter to the Religious Affairs Ministry explaining that since the Meron disaster no insurance companies will agree to secure the site, putting the members of the committee at risk of personal liability suits and forcing them to close the site unless a solution can be found. However, the letter backfired because instead of prompting the government to find a solution for the insurance coverage, it instead threatened to take over the site’s management. In the wake of the government’s threat, the Va’adas HaChamisha responded on Thursday that it is suspending the closure of the site • Full Story

Local Kashrus Alert: Costco Produce Grown in Israel

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We have been informed of specific vegetables seen in our local Costco that have a ‘Made in Israel’ text on the produce. Costco is not the only store that has produce from Israel, and one should keep an eye out in all stores for future reference • Full Story

First Jewish Children’s Camp Opens in the UAE

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The United Arab Emirates’ first Jewish children’s camp opened on Monday in what the country’s resident rabbi described as a “game changer.” “This is something tremendous,” the UAE’s Rabbi Levi Duchman told Al Arabiya English. “This is a direct outcome of the Abraham Accords, and we’re very excited about this” • Full Story

Amid Israeli Pushback, Biden Admin Backs off Yerushalayim Consulate Plan

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A US diplomat, a former senior US official and another source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel this week that the Biden administration has effectively shelved its effort to resurrect the de facto mission to the Palestinians shuttered by former president Donald Trump in 2019 • Full Story

Adams Breaks with Tradition, Accommodates Frum at Inauguration

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Incoming Mayor Eric Adams is breaking two longstanding traditions. His inauguration ceremony for mayor will be held in Brooklyn, rather than City Hall, and it will take place at night. The reason for the time change? This year, January 1st is on Shabbos, and Adams wants to enable frum Jews to participate in the ceremony • Full Story

Moscow Jewish University: FJC President Leviev Honors Hall Inauguration

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Businessman and philanthropist, Mr. Lev Leviev, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) paid a special visit to the Boys’ Campus at Moscow’s Jewish University in honor of the festive inauguration of two new lecture and event halls. The 64 Jewish students from across Russia and the FSU, who study at the Boys’ Campus in the Jewish University of Moscow, directed by Rabbi Eli Reiss, enjoyed an exciting and inspiring surprise on the occasion of the inauguration of two new halls in the university campus • Full Story, Photos

Chabad Teams Up with Israeli Govt, Delivers Water to Tornado Ravaged Kentucky Residents

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“Since Shabbat ended and we heard the news of the terrible tornado in western Kentucky, we spent the next 20 hours loading a truck with what is most needed, including winter clothing, blankets and water,” Rabbi Shlomo Litvin of Chabad of the Bluegrass, a branch of Chabad of Kentucky, told The Algemeiner. “The Israeli government, which was one of the first to offer assistance to the state, has sponsored several pallets of water which were loaded on the truck and are being delivered to tornado-hit communities, including Mayfield” • Full Story, Photos

Chabad Rov Rails Against ‘Western Wall Compromise’

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In a letter, Rabbi Yitzhak Yehuda Yaroslavsky, Rov of the Chabadcommunity in Nachlas Har Chabad and member of Beis Din Rabbonei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, wrote: “It is a holy obligation to prevent transferring even the smallest part of the place of our holy Temple so that it can be desecrated with matters which are the opposite of holiness. And no compromise or such thing, G-d forbid, is relevant here” • Full Story

French Shluchim Comprehensively Study Kiddushin Laws

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30 Shluchim from across France attended a two-day comprehensive course on the laws of Chuppa V’Kiddushin, learning about a variety of issues that arise when officiating a Jewish wedding. The course was given by Rabbi Yochanan Gurary, Chief Rabbi of Holon and a member of Beis Din Rabbonei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel as well as Rabbi Pinchas Althaus, member of Holon’s Rabbinate • Full Story, Photos

BREAKING: Bronx Man Sentenced to 11 Years for Attacking Jew in Brooklyn

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A Bronx man man convicted of the strangulation and assault April 21, 2018 of Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz a Lubavitcher chassid walking home from shul, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. James Vincent, 44, was sentenced Monday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo • Full Story

Moroccan King Orders Restoration Of Hundreds Of Jewish Sites

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King Mohammed VI’s plan is expected to see the renovation of hundreds of synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish heritage sites across the kingdom • Full Story

Shocking: Yeshiva Bochur Began Shiduchim, Only To Discover He Was Not Jewish

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A very good bochur, diligently learning in a prominent Yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel, started getting shiduchim recommendations, only for his mother to suddenly reveal to him that she was a complete goy from Ukraine • Full Story

DRAMATIC STEP: Meron Site Will Close On Thursday, Administrators Announce

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From this coming Thursday the directors of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi) in Meron will be closing the site to visitors, since no insurer is currently willingly to provide insurance for potential damages to visitors, according to a Ynet report • Full Story

Dnipro: Israeli Chabad Opens New Center on 5th Anniversary

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On the evening of the seventh candle of Chanukah, a new space was inaugurated for Dnipro, Ukraine’s “Beit Chabad Leisraelim”. The Chabad house, in its fifth year since its founding, provides a home for the Hebrew-speaking community, uniting Israeli businessmen, students, and tourists living in the Ukrainian metropolis • Full Story, Photos

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Koby Berkowitz – Sydney Australia to Chana Weiss Sherman Oaks, CA.

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in The Garden House 1386 S. Johns PL

Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.