A terrible tragedy occurred in the Catskills on Friday night, with the sudden Petira of a  young boy in camp. Sources tell YWN that Shia Singer, 12-year-old, had finished the Shabbos Seudah at Camp Arugas Habosem in South Fallsburg, when he suddenly collapsed. Catskills Hatzolah did everything they could to save his life and rushed him to the hospital. Unfortunately, despite their life-saving efforts, he was R”L Niftar at the hospital. The family are Mispallelim at HaRav Binyonim Eisenberger’s Shul in Boro Park.

The Miami Beach Jewish community was plunged into shock and sadness Motzei Shabbos as news broke that Mrs. Chana Rochel Stern (nee Pruzansky) suddenly passed away in Lakewood over Shabbos from a massive heart attack. She was just 45. Mrs. Stern a”h leaves behind 5 children, and her beloved husband Rabbi Yekusiel Stern, who is director of Miami Beach Community Kollel and secretary for the Beis Din of South Florida Mrs. Stern was a teacher of Jewish History and Parshas Hashavua at Bais Yaakov Miami. The levaya is scheduled to take place at the 7th Street Chapel in Lakewood at 4:30 pm, with kevurah in Eretz Yisroel. A fundraiser has been launched to assist her husband and children in the wake of this terrible tragedy. Donations to the fundraiser can be made by clicking here.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of R’ Avrohom Moshe Melohn Z”L, one of the leading Baalei Tzedakah in America. He was 65. The Niftar, who lives in Manhattan, was visiting a friend in Monsey on Thursday morning, when he suddenly collapsed. Rockland Hatzolah responded and did everything they could to save his life. Unfortunately he was Niftar in the home he was visiting. The Levaya will be held on Thursday afternoon in Monsey at Ohr Someyach, 244 Route 306. The Kevura will be in Eretz Yisroel. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Harav Yosef Yisroel Mitnick zt”l of Flatbush. A master mechanech for more than six decades, Rav Mitnick was a talmid muvhak of Rav Yitzchok Hutner zt”l, and was the founding member of Kollel Gur Aryeh of Flatbush. He is survived by his children, as well as hundreds of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The levaya is scheduled to take place at 2 pm Sunday in Shomrei Hadas which will continue at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin at approximately 4:30. Kevurah will be on Har Hamenuchos on Monday. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The Olam HaTorah in Eretz Yisrael and throughout the world is in deep aveilus upon the passing of the Gadol HaDor, HaGaon HaRav Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein, z’tl, shortly before 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning at the age of 100. Shortly beforehand, HaRav Gershon’s situation became critical and the doctors tried to resuscitate him. Meanwhile, the Torah world in Eretz Yisrael stopped everything to plead for Rachamei Shamayim. HaRav HaGaon Gershon Edelstein, zt’l, was the Nasi of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and the leader of Chareidi Jewry in Eretz Yisrael and throughout the world and served as the Rosh Yeshivah of Ponevezh Yeshivah for 80 years.

Mourning has gripped the Belzer community in Lakewood as word spread of the tragic petirah of 15-year-old Batsheva Cohen a”h, who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Tuesday night. The accident occurred at the intersection of Route 70 and Vermont Avenue in Lakewood just before 10 pm. Hatzolah paramedics rushed the critically injured teenager to Monmouth Medical Southern Campus in Lakewood where doctors attempted to save her life. Sadly, Batsheva a”h passed away a short time later. Levaya details will be published when they become available to YWN. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Rachel Shwekey, a’h, the mother of famed singer Yaakov Shwekey, passed away overnight Sunday at the age of 77 in Miami, where she resided. The nifteres had developed a serious case of pneumonia recently and her condition deteriorated. Mrs. Shweky was born in Poland to Holocaust survivors who were Vitznitzer chassidim. When she was a child she moved with her family to Israel, later moving to the US. Yehi Zichra Baruch. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Meir Herskowitz zt”l, the longtime rosh yeshiva of Stamford Yeshiva and one of the most brilliant gedolim of our times. He was 89. Rav Meir zt”l was not well for the past number of years and was most recently being treated at Specialty Hospital of Central Jersey (Dr. Lebowitz), located above Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood. A levaya is scheduled to take place in Beth Medrash Govoha at 11:30 am followed by a second levaya at Bais Binyamin (Stamford Yeshiva) in Monsey (51 Carlton Road) at 4 pm, and another at JFK at 7:30 pm, with kevurah to take place on Har Hamenuchos on Tuesday. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Meidan (Mordechai) Baruch-Keller, z’l, 16, who was hospitalized last week after suffering serious lung damage due to vaping passed away on Shabbos morning. A statement from Schneider Hospital said: “It is with great sadness that we update you on the death of the 16-year-old boy who was treated in the cardiac intensive care unit at the Schneider Center and connected to an ECMO machine due to the collapse of his lungs.

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rebbetzin Bruria David a”h, the legendary founder of the BJJ Seminary in Yerushalayim and world renowned mechaneches. Rebbetzin David a”h was the only child of the gaon and tzadik Harav Yitzchak Hutner zt”l, the rosh yeshiva of Chaim Berlin and mechaber of Pachad Yitzchak. She was married to Harav Yonason David shlit”a, the Rosh Yeshiva of Pachad Yitzchak. The couple sadly never had any children. Rebbetzin David founded Seminar Bais Yaakov LeMoros, also known as Machon Sarah Schneirer, and commonly referred to as BJJ, in the early 1970s and quickly turned it into one of the premier charedi seminaries in Eretz Yisroel.