Today, 21 Iyar, is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Moshe Sherer Z’L, Moshe ben Chaim Yehuda, longtime leader of Agudas Yisroel until his petirah in 1998.
Rabbi Sherer served as president of Agudath Israel of America as well as co-chair of the Agudas Yisroel World Organization. In these capacities, he carried out the directives of Gedolei Yisroel to strengthen authentic Torah Judaism and promote Jewish interests in America and across the globe. He was respected across the entire spectrum of Torah Jewry as a public servant who served his people with skill, dignity and integrity. It has been 26 years since his passing, but his legacy lives on through the organizational movement to which he devoted his life: Agudas Yisroel.
We share some precious memories below.

Rav Meir Mazuz, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Kisei Rachamim, expressed his approval regarding the cancellation of the “Pride Parade” in Tel Aviv and called for other cities to do the same.
Earlier this month, Tel Aviv decided to cancel its parade, with Mayor Ron Huldai stating, “now is not the time for celebrations.”
Rav Mazuz elaborated, “When those who return to Judaism begin observing the Shabbos, they begin to respect the Torah, they begin to treat the Torah as something. Here, all these years, they have held a Pride Parade. The ‘Pride Parade’ is a parade of repulsiveness. People are not ashamed to make such a parade – do you have nothing else to do?”

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Mrs. Lea Reichmann a”h from Toronto.
Mrs. Reichmann was the devoted wife of the legendary Reb Moshe Yosef (Paul) Reichmann z”l, the greatest machzik Torah of his generation. Mrs. Reichmann stood by him and supported all his endeavors.
Mrs. Reichmann was the daughter of the late Reb Moshe Feldman from London. She married Reb Moshe in 1955 in Montreux, following an engagement that began when he was just 15.
In mid-1956, the Reichmanns left Morocco for New York and then moved to Toronto, where most of the family eventually settled.

A new poll conducted by the Smith Institute for the Olam Katan newspaper showed that over half of Israelis would like to see Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat and the son of former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, become the next Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.
The poll results show that 56% of respondents would like to see Rabbi Eliyahu appointed to the role. Among these are 55% of secular Israelis, and 74% of Dati Leumi Israelis. The poll also showed significant support for Rav Shmuel Eliyahu amongst Charedi respondents. The poll showed that if one of the Rabbanim from Shas left the race, even more people would support Rav Eliyahu’s candidacy.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rabbi Nesanel Hakohen Kasnett zt”l, longtime resident of Boro Park and a distinguished editor at ArtScroll/Mesorah. He was 78.
Rabbi Kasnett embraced Torah in his youth, becoming a baal teshuvah, and developed a deep love for limud haTorah, becoming a brilliant talmid chochom. Though he was a licensed attorney, he chose to dedicate his life to Torah and related projects.
As a young man, he studied at Yeshiva Beis Hatalmud in Eretz Yisroel and later at Yeshivas Novardok in Boro Park.

Rabbi Avraham Kroizer, 80, who was violently thrown to the ground by a policeman in Meron last night, detailed this morning the sequence of events leading up to the incident.
“I was there to see if they would open the barricades or not, and in the meantime, I sat on the side and read chapters of Tehillim,” Rabbi Kroizer said.
He described how he ended up at the scene: “I thought that maybe they would open the barrier for me to cross later, because a few moments earlier, I saw an old man accompanied by his two children being allowed to pass. So, I thought they would allow me as well, considering I am also old.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef on Sunday harshly criticized the Supreme Court justices for their decision to stop funding for yeshivas after the exemption that allowed yeshiva students to avoid military service expired.
At a Lag Ba’omer event in Yerushalayim, he remarked, “These are foolish judges. Instead of increasing funding for the yeshivas, they provide only a pittance to the married yeshiva students.”
“Rather than increasing the funds, they reduced them. For nearly two months, the yeshiva world has received no money. Where is your common sense? We are in a difficult situation, and during times of war, we need merits for the nation of Israel. Instead of supporting that, you are undermining the very foundation you rely on.”

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