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Rav Ovadya Yosef ztz"l
Rav Ovadia Yosef ztz"l

Here's why Rav Ovadia Yosef ztz"l refused to use a hearing aid

When asked why he refused, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef explained that he was concerned that using the device on Shabbat could be problematic from a halachic perspective.

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Orthodox Jews, NYC, Sanitation

Orthodox Jews slam NYC sanitation over Sabbath conflict

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Albany, New York

Albany, New York, Book Festival, Anti-Semitism

Jewish voice silenced: Albany Book Festival drops Jewish moderator citing "impasse" over Zionist views

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Commemorative plate on a French school in memory of the Jewish pupils deported under the German Occupation

France, Jewish Schools, Security Fears

France’s Jewish schools overrun: Thousands scramble for spots amid security crisis

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A Siddur A Week

A Siddur A Week: Two Hundred Years of High Holiday Prayers: The Machzor Rabba and Its Predecessors

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Congo flag on backdrop of soldiers

Congo, Politics

Jewish American  sentenced to death in Congo coup plot

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Advertising the rally

Charedim protest the conscription law

THIS SUNDAY IN NEW JERSEY: 150,000 people expected at huge rally protesting IDF draft law for Haredim 

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Crown Heights

Tragedy, Car Accident

TRAGEDY IN CROWN HEIGHTS: 15-year-old Chabad student passes away two months after being struck by a car

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Scene of one of yesterday's pager explosions in Lebanon

Halocha, Hezbollah

Should we celebrate the pager explosions which killed and maimed thousands of Hezbollah fighters?

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Minister Porush

Haredim, Draft Law

Minister Porush breaks his silence: "Haredi Judaism is in the worst situation it has ever been in since the establishment of the state"

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I-87 Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in Chestnut Ridge, New York for Exit 14A to the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey

Tragedy

Tragedy strikes New Jersey: Three family members killed in late-night crash

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism

Controversial antisemitic mural in Milwaukee sparks debate and vandalism

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Fornt page of the Jewish Chronicle, featuring article by Theodore Herzl

The Jewish Chronicle 

Star columnists exit Jewish Chronicle amid controversy – Here's what to know

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IDF soldiers at Shachris wearing Talleisim and Tefilin

IDF Soldiers, Hostages

HUGE ZCHUS: 101 pairs of tefilin given to IDF soldiers corresponding to the 101 hostages

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The funeral of Asher Menachem Paley HYD, February 11, 2023

Mazal Tov, Birth

HEARTWARMING: After losing 2 children in shocking ramming attack– Paley family welcomes new baby boy

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A street full of "Sukkot" in the religious neighborhood of Meah Shearim

Sukkos

Warning: Huge fines for Illegal sukkah construction in Israel

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Hespedim for Rabbi Rebber ztz"l

Death, Tragedy

Boruch Dayan Haemes: Rabbi Shmuel Raber, head of Jerusalem's 'Otzar HaTorah' Yeshiva, passed away 

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Cornell University

Israel-Gaza War, Cornell

Cornell prof called Hamas attack 'exhilirating'– He's back on campus like nothing ever happened

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Yishai Ribo

Yishai Ribo, Music

EXCITING: Yishai Ribo releases brand new album "Sof Chama Lavo" | Listen

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The Shem Tov bible

700 Year-Old-Tanach Auctioned

EXQUISITE TREASURE: Banking family sells 700-year-old Tanach for $6.9 million through Sotheby's 

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