A major Jewish organization is refusing to accept the New York Times’ apology for the Times publishing a cartoon depicting the prime minister of Israel as a dog.
The cartoon, of Netanyahu’s face with dog ears and a dog body, with a blue Jewish star and a leash held by a yarmulke-wearing Donald Trump, was published in the New York Times International Edition on Thursday, April 25.

Chabad leaders worldwide are warning Jewish communities about the possibility of more anti-Semitic terrorist attacks like the San Diego synagogue shooting.
In a message put out after the shooting on the last night of Pesach, which claimed the life of Lori Kayne, Chabad leaders said that “our regional leaders are very worried about the security of every Chabad house and center in hundreds of communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
Chabad expressed its gratitude to the municipal and national agencies that worked closely with the organization to ensure the safety of community members.

The driver in a hit-and-run in Yerushalayim last week that left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition has turned himself in to authorities, police said Sunday.
Police had been searching for the suspect since last Sunday’s collision in the Ramot neighborhood that injured a child, who has not been named, who remains in critical condition at Shaare Zedek hospital.
Police said the day after the crash that they knew the identity of the suspected driver, a man in his 20s, who had borrowed the car.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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A crowdfunding campaign established to help the victims of an attack on a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, California, raised nearly $50,000 in less than 24 hours.
More than 600 people donated on GoFundMe, with many of the donations ranging from $10 to $36.
The donations will “be used to pay for any necessary medical operations for the victims, funeral services, synagogue [repairs] or anything else the synagogue would need assistance with,” wrote the person who set up the page, who identified himself or herself as Cam N.

Lori Gilbert Kaye, the woman killed in the Chabad of Poway shooting was hailed as a hero after it emerged she was hit when she dived in front of Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 57, the Rabbi of the shul.
Close friend, Audrey Jacobs, wrote a moving Facebook tribute praising her as a “jewel of our community” dedicated to good deeds and charity.
“Your final good deed was taking the bullets for Rabbi () Goldstein to save his life,” she wrote, noting that she “leaves behind a devastated husband and a 22-year-old daughter.”
Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett, called Gilbert-Kaye a “hero who will be remembered in Jewish history.”

Thousands of participants took part in the levaya of the Kaliver Rebbe on Sunday, who was nifter at the age of 96.
During the levaya, Rav Yitzchak Bronstein, a talmid of the Rebbe, announced that according to the will, the Rebbe’s step-grandson Rav Yisrael Mordechai Yoel Horowitz will continue his path.
The new Rebbe is only 28 years old, but is considered to be a gaon in Torah, and serves as the Rosh Yeshiva of the Kaliver Torah institutions throughout Israel. Over the past year, he has managed to raise huge sums for the Kaliver institutions that were in danger of collapse.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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By Gordon Dale, Ph.D.
On the evening of the 18th of Nissan 5779 (April 22, 2019), the Modzitz community of Brooklyn celebrated Pesach with musical joy befitting the holiday. The annual Pesach kumzitz was held in the home of R’ Aron Orlander, a devoted student of R’ Ben Zion Shenker, zt’l, and was co-led by R’ Dovid Bick, a close friend and student of Rabbi Shenker. Featuring lively singing of Modzitz classics, as well as treats from lesser-known corners of the canon, the event showcased the breadth and depth of the Modzitz repertoire. A highlight of the evening was surely the musical offerings of R’ Andy Statman, whose virtuosic clarinet playing demonstrated his attention to musical nuance and decades of close study of the repertoire.

When a gunman opened fire in a shul in California yesterday, killing one and injuring three others, Lori Kaye jumped between the shooter and the rabbi. Kaye, 60, was shot at the shul and died at a nearby hospital. In addition to Kaye, at least three others were wounded in the shooting at Congregation Chabad in Poway, north of San Diego. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 57, was shot in the hand  and suffered what looked like defensive wounds to both of his index fingers, a doctor at the Palomar Medical Center said.
In the following sudio, Rabbi Goldstein recounts what occurred:

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of the Kaliver Rebbe, Rav Menachem Mendel Taub zt”l. He was 96.
The Rebbe was the seventh in a direct paternal line to the founder of the Kaliver dynasty, Rav Yitzchok Isaac of Kaliv, a disciple of Rav Elimelech of Lizensk.
Seven years ago, at age 89, the rebbe married Mrs. Shaindel Malnick, then 55, from Kiryat Herzog in Bnei Brak.
The Rebbe was a son of the Rozler Rov. His first wife, Rebbetzin Chana Sara Shifra, passed away about eight years ago at the age of 94. She was a daughter of Rav Pinchas Shapiro of Kechnia and was a descendant of Rav Meir Premishlaner.