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More than a dozen rabbis from the city of Elad near Tel Aviv issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed.
The edict, dated to June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad and the city’s chief rabbi, Mordechai Malka, the news site Bhol reported Friday. Most of Elad’s approximately 46,000 residents are charedi.
“We have heard and have seen that lately, a serious phenomenon has spread in our city Elad, in which young boys and children walk around publicly with dogs. This is strictly forbidden, as explained in the Gemara and by the Rambam, anyone raising a dog is accursed and especially in our city where many women and children are afraid of dogs,” the anti-canine edict states.

Dear Friends,
As friends, admirers, and students of Rabbi Bauman and his family, we have all experienced a very difficult week.
My goal with these words is to clarify some facts and perhaps answer some questions.
As you know, Rabbi Bauman was caught in a riptide in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach in the early afternoon on Tuesday. The force of the water was so strong that nobody present was able to save him. The rescue crews were nearby and on the scene immediately.

A Lakeview synagogue has unearthed a 3,000-pound mystery, and professional locksmiths are welcome to come and take a crack at it.
Plumbers found it while digging in the parking lot at the Anshe Emet Synagogue back in June when they found the massive safe buried in the ground.
“I’ve been in the trade for 30 years, and this is my first safe,” construction worker Russ Moen said.
It has become the talk of the construction site while crews work around it.
“Is there gold in there? Is there nothing in there?” Moen said. “You know, the old Al Capone theory, and talking about getting Geraldo out here.”
Jay Quinn, site superintendent for Bulley & Andrews construction said the safe proved to be a tempting find.

The Har Hamor Yeshiva, led by Rabbi Tzvi Tau, is preparing to launch its own political party, under the name “Noam: Am Normali BeArtzenu” [A Normal People In Our Own Land].
Channel 2’s Yair Cherki released the first images of the new party’s logo Friday, along with excerpts from a recent speech by Rabbi Tau which suggest the party’s focus will be on traditional values and social conservatism.

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This past Friday, the second of Tamuz, our dear brother and friend, Rabbi Tzemach Cunin A”H returned his holy soul to Hashem, when he was suddenly and unexpectedly taken from us, at the young age of 43. 
Tzemach loved his children dearly and all that were at the funeral still shudder at the excruciatingly difficult scene of his children saying their last goodbye. 
Tzemach was always there for anyone when they needed him, and his famous smile was sure to brighten up your day. Streaming into the shiva home by the hundreds, grief-stricken visitors tell of his warmth, genuine concern for every individual and humble lack of pretense.

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*Chelki Imo* – featuring Dudi Linker & Avremi Lunger, in honor of the Global Campaign to Save Tiferes Tzion/Kiryas Melech – R’ Shlomo (ben Rav Chaim) Kanievsky’s yeshiva.
• First song – Achas (Yingerlech/Pinky Weber)
• Second song – R’ Shayale (Nechumeh/Shimshi Neiman)
• Arranged by Shmulik Weinreich

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US Vice President Mike Pence paid a surprise visit on Thursday to the Chabad of Poway that was the scene of a deadly shooting attack three months ago, telling Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein injured in the attack that he had “inspired the nation.”
“We had to come,” Pence told Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein as the two hugged upon the vice president’s entry into the shul.
With his hand still wrapped in a bandage after being shot and losing a finger in the attack, Goldstein gave Pence and the vice president’s wife Karen a tour of the shul before leading them to the bimah and offering them a brocha.
Pence later posted about the visit on Twitter:

According to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch, on July 7 the Palestinian Authority doubled the monthly salary it pays to Husam al-Qawasmi, the terrorist that planned the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16.
Qawasmi was arrested on July 11, 2014, and subsequently convicted. Having now served five years in prison, his P.A. salary is being doubled, according to PMW, from NIS 2,000 per month ($560) to NIS 4,000 per month ($1128).
Since 2014 the P.A. has paid over NIS 350,000 ($98,000) to Qawasmi and to the families of the other two terrorists involved in the kidnapping and murders, who were killed while resisting arrest.