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For 25 years, since the founding of Kiryat Sefer, Mosdos Beis Abba has beared the torch of Torah in the city, enabling hundreds of avreichim to devote themselves exclusively to limud Torah and avodas Hashem. The Kollel has escorted the city since its inception, serving as its spiritual cornerstone and molding its character as a City of Torah that attracts the crème de la crème of Israeli yeshivos. As Maran Sar HaTorah Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlit”a, expressed, “Beis Abba is a pioneer” in transforming Kiryat Sefer into a City of Torah.

The House Rules Committee, led by Democrat Rep. Jim McGovern, irons out details surrounding the full House’s impeachment vote happening Wednesday morning.

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

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The campaign will run for 36 hours between yesterday and today Parshes VaYeshev (Dec 16-17).
The goal is to raise $1,500,000.00 which will be used to ensure that every guest that comes to Reb Yeshayaleh will leave satiated. 
A place for miracles. 
Thousands upon thousands of guest visit Kerestir every year in search of Yeshuas. The tiring journey is worth it because Reb Yeshayaleh works miracles every time. Everyone knows that when the going gets tough, you go to Reb Yeshayaleh. The thousands of Yeshuahs obtain by Reb Yeshayaleh speaks for itself. We are familiar with at least one story of miraculous salvation after a visit to Kerestir.  

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at 106 Democratic lawmakers who wrote to him criticizing the Trump administration’s recent determination that Israel’s West Bank settlements are not illegal. In a letter to the Congress members and published in The Jerusalem Post, Pompeo described their concerns as “foolish” and accused former President […]

Sudan will shutter the offices of Hamas and Hezbollah as part of its efforts to rebuild relations with the U.S. and get sanctions lifted.
Renouncing support for terrorism organizations and taking steps to disrupt their operations is one of a number of steps Sudan’s recently inaugurated government is taking to satisfy requirements to be removed from U.S. designation of a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
Sudan shares the designation with three other countries – North Korea, Iran and Syria – and is therefore subject to crippling sanctions that are meant to isolate it from the international economy.
Read more at The Hill.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Unknown vandals have damaged dozens of gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in northern Slovakia, police and a group that worked to preserve the site said Tuesday. The Remember group said 59 gravestones were knocked down and damaged at the cemetery in the town of Namestovo. The cemetery that dates to the […]

What comes to mind when you think “Siyum Hashas”?
 
Celebration. Limud Hatorah. Milestone. Accomplishment. Klal Yisroel. 
The combination of all these factors is what makes the Siyum Hashas such a unique event. 
 
But if you were to pick one overarching word, a word that encompasses the entire event, a word the perfectly describes the feeling and atmosphere of the Siyum… that word would be UNITY.
 
There is no other event like it on our days, nothing that even comes close. There is no one, no matter where he or she lives that isn’t aware of the Siyum Hashas and is not connected to it in some small way. Men, women, and children are all part of it. 
 

Michael Reina, mayor of Jackson, NJ, is taking heat after an alarming audio clip that was recently released seems to unmask his anti-Orthodox bias.
In the audio clip, an unnamed person, identified on media sites as former Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore, can be heard asking Reina “if these were churches, would we be fighting them?” Reina, without pause, answers, “Absolutely not.”

PARIS (AP) — Teachers, doctors, Eiffel Tower employees and workers across the French labor force walked off the job Tuesday to resist a higher retirement age and to preserve a welfare system they fear their business-friendly president wants to dismantle. Lighting red flares and marching beneath a blanket of multi-colored union flags, thousands of angry […]