New York – The fast of Tisha B’Av, the “saddest” day in the Jewish calendar, begins Monday evening at sundown and ends Tuesday night. In New York, the fast begins Monday at 8:03 pm EST., ending the following night at 9:15 pm, (72min.) Its name literally means “the ninth day of [the Jewish month of] Av,” the [...]

New York – The heart-wrenching events of the past few days have all of New York in a state of despondency – Jew and non-Jew alike. One walks into the office, into shul, into a food establishment, and encounters solemn, glum expressions, which is a fact reflective of the deep bond that we all [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Since the terrible news about Leiby a’h broke, I have been inundated with calls from parents, educators and camp directors asking what they ought to be saying to their children about this tragedy — especially since many of them have been saying tehillim for Leiby. In order to assist parents in speaking [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn and police this morning arrested a suspect in the slaying — who had the child’s severed feet in his freezer, sources told The Post. Police made the gruesome discovery after raiding a Kensington home and arresting the [...]

Brooklyn, NY – As the search for Leibby Kletzky passes the twenty hour mark, volunteers from all over the New York metropolitan area are doing everything in their power to bring the nine year old home to his family. Assemblyman Dov Hikind has announced that the reward for the missing boy is now up [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Ongoing search this afternoon on the missing Brooklyn boy who disappeared after leaving day camp. Leiby Kletzky, 8, was last seen at his school, Yeshiva Boyan in Borough Park, around 5 p.m. Monda. 100’s of volunteers have scoured the neighborhood since, but the boy remains missing. See below photos of the ongoing coordination and search [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Hundreds of volunteers searched throughout the night for Leibby Kletzky, the nine year old boy who has been missing since 5 PM last night, when he failed to come home from the Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street between 12th and 13th Avenues. Boro Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg Shomrim joined forces with the [...]

New York – We live in a wonderful country. One remarkable virtue that makes this country great is that, although we may not always agree with each other, virtually everyone respects the rights of others to disagree with them. Freedom of religion is another paramount value in this country. Both these are [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Much has been written about a controversial altered photograph of the White House situation room published by Der Tzeitung, a Chareidi newspaper, based out of Brooklyn. The photo, which was taken live as senior officials were watching the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, showed neither Secretary of State Hillary [...]

New York – Like the plagues that swept Mitzrayim so many years ago, countless sites on the internet, including the European Space Agency, Ericsson and The Guardian, were temporarily struck down by an Amazon web service failure on Thursday that lasted well into the day today. Most notably for the frum community, the failure [...]