MONSEY, NY – Tosh Monsey, a unique Hassidic community in Rockland County known for its high academic standards and community outreach, has launched a 24-hour hotline in English – 845-613-3135 – to answer all types of questions on Jewish law. They are the only Hassidic sect in the nation that staffs a hotline with “dayanim,” ordained rabbis with advanced training who can answer a broad range of questions.
The Bais Huruah Hotline was started five years ago by the Tosh-Monsey Rebbe, Rabbi Avrohom Katz. Each year, the program has received upwards of 7,500 calls that were answered in Yiddish. Because of the strong response, the organization is expanding the program to English.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of the Pupa Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Miriam Greenwald a”h. She was 100 years old.
The Rebbetzin was the wife of the Vayechi Yosef of Pupa, Rav Yosef Greenwald.
The rebbetzin was born in 1918 in Vodkart, Hungary, a daughter of Rav Yissochor Ber and Chana Weber.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, his wife Sara and sons Yair and Avner toured northern Israel today.

By Rahav Meir

Good morning from Thailand, from the island of Ko Samui.

So what did I see here, at the world’s biggest Seder?

I saw about 2500 Jews, who are very different and distant from each other, yet know that every year in the middle of Nissan the most important thing to do is to sit at the Seder table and repeat the principles of our faith in our own ears, and in the ears of our children.

I met a woman who is a family doctor from Australia, who became a Ba’alat Teshuvah here in Thailand many years ago and now came with her husband and kids to show them how and where it had all begun.

Three of the four children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen died in the Sri Lanka bombing attacks, a spokesman has confirmed to the BBC.
The family were visiting the country over the Easter holiday. The names of the children have not been made public. Holch Povlsen owns the international clothing chain Bestseller.
He is also the biggest single shareholder in clothing giant Asos and is the UK’s largest private landowner, according to the Times newspaper.
“Unfortunately, we can confirm the reports,” a Bestseller spokesman said in an email. “We ask you to respect the privacy of the family and we therefore have no further comments.”
Read more at BBC News.
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President Donald Trump sued his own accounting firm and the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee at the same time on Monday – trying an unusual tactic to stop the firm from giving the committee details about Trump’s past financial dealings.
The suit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, seeks a court order to block a subpoena issued by the committee to Mazars USA last week.
It amounts to Trump – the leader of the executive branch of government – asking the judicial branch to stop the legislative branch from investigating his past.
To do so, Trump wants the court to negate an idea that has guided Congress for decades: that the legislature’s investigative power isn’t just meant to research possible legislation.

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An attack on a Jewish man on the streets of London was caught in a dashcam video. The attacker is seen on video with a a rod in his hand chasing the victim, who escaped with minor injuries. The attack occurred outside a shul in the Stamford Hill neighborhood.
The director of the North London Jewish community said that there was “no doubt” that the attack was anti-Semitic in nature and that there has been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Stamford Hill recently.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Lakewood Vizhnitz Kehilla, led by Rav Eliezer Hager, went into contract erev Yom Tov to purchase the flea market located on Route 70 in Lakewood, New Jersey.
The land is being bought to build a 160 unit development for the growing chassidus.
The Kehilla is expected to close on the property right after Pesach.
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United Hatzala EMS volunteers treated a young boy who was hit by a bus on HaChozeh M’Lublin Street in Beitar Illit. Volunteers attempted to resuscitate four-year-old Boruch Eisenberg from Monsey, New York, and initiated CPR. Unfortunately, after lengthy efforts, the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit are currently treating family members and bystanders who witnessed the accident.
The family had come to from America to to Israel for Yom Tov and had traveled to Beitar Illit to visit family.