It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Zevulun Charlop zt”l, menahel emeritus of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon. He was 93.
Rav Charlop served for over 35 years as a marbitz Torah at RIETS in New York, teaching and educating thousands of talmidim.
Rav Charlop gave semicha bechinos at RIETS and served as one of RIETS’ masmichim, maintaining a close relationship with the yeshiva’s Kollelei Elyon.

All are asked to daven for Rav Yechiel Yitzchok Perr, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Ayson of Far Rockaway, who is in need of rachamei Shomayim.
Rav Perr grew up in South Ozone Park, Queens, where his father, Rav Menachem Mendel Perr, served as rov for over 50 years. He attended high school at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and then learned at Yeshiva of Philadelphia and at Bais Medrash Govoah in Lakewood under Rav Aharon Kotler from 1954 to 1962.
Rav Perr’s wife is Rebbetzin Shoshana, nee Nekritz, daughter of Rav Yehuda Leib Nekritz, granddaughter of Rav Avraham Jofen, and great-granddaughter of the Alter of Novardok.
In 1969, he founded Yeshiva of Far Rockaway.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the tragic passing of Eli and Raizy NeyDavoud z”l of Lakewood, NJ, who were killed in a car accident overnight on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
Eli and Raizy, residents of the Wymdam 2 neighborhood in Lakewood, were en route to a wedding in Passaic, NJ, when their car was involved in an accident amid last night’s inclement weather, about, 15 miles from Lakewood.
The accident also claimed the life of Eli and Raizy’s first child; Raizy was in her ninth month of pregnancy.
Eli was a son of Chaim Yitzchok and Jasmin NadDavoud of Los Angeles.
Raizy was a daughter of R’ Dovid Mordechai and Sarah Rothenberg of Lakewood.

Being in the field of shidduchim is time-consuming and, more often than not, thankless. Phone calls, emails, meetings, ensuring the two sides are in sync from the first date, and the myriad details that go into the making of a shidduch keep a shadchan’s plate (and inbox) full.

The talmidim of Yeshivas Brisk on Rechov Press in Yerushalayim were terrorized on leil Shabbos Kodesh, when at nearly 1 a.m. an Arab entered the yeshiva building and began to smach everything he saw.
The Arab went up to the bais medrash, where several young men were still learning late into the night. He began throwing seforim and shtenders, and breaking the candles on the amud.
Later, the Arab roamed through all the floors of the building, throwing things everywhere, but did not touch any of the yeshiva bochurim, most of whom had fled in fair.

On Wednesday evening, Jan. 10, a momentous meeting of the esteemed Rabbanim of Lakewood took place in the home of Rav Eli Herzka, Rov of Khal Meor Chaim.
In addition to Rabbanim representing kehillos throughout the length and breadth of Lakewood, the gathering was graced with the presence of BMG Roshei Yeshiva Rav Dovid Schustal shlita and Rav Yeruchim Olshin shlita and other prominent Gedolei Torah of Lakewood. It was called to galvanize emergency support for the beleaguered communities of southern Israel, and to call for the start of a major campaign to raise $3 million in desperately needed funds to help tens of thousands of families of bnei Torah make it through their time of crisis. 

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rebbetzin Malky Fensterheim a”h.
Rebbetzin Fensterheim was the wife of Rav Yaakov Fensterheim, longtime beloved R”M at Yeshiva Bais Moshe of Scranton , Pennsylvania. Rav Yaakov, a talmid of Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l, has been marbitz Torah for many decades, and Rebbetzin Fensterheim enabled her husband to spend his days learning and teaching Torah.
Rebbetzin Fensterheim was a much admired and loved member of the close-knit Scranton community. Even after a number of local senior rabbeim moved out of Scranton to Lakewood, the Fensterheims stayed in Scranton, with Rav Fensterheim learning with the local yungeleit.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of R’ Naftali Tessler z”l of Chicago. He was 98.
R’ Naftali was a noted baal tzedakah, baal chessed and mokir rabbonon who built and established the central building of Yeshivas Vizhnitz Beis Yisrael and Damesek Eliezer in Kiryas Vizhnitz-Bnei Brak.
R’ Naftali had generations-long connections to the Vizhnitzer dynasty. In his youth, he had the privilege of seeing the Saba Kadisha, the Ahavas Yisroel of Vizhnitz. He was a talmid of the revered Vishiver Rebbe.
R’ Naftali stood at the side of the Yeshuos Moshe of Vizhnitz in building the Vizhnitzer yeshivos Beis Yisrael and Damesek Eliezer, as mentioned.

This past week Chavrei Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah held a meeting at the home of Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh HaYeshiva of Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia.
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The eighth annual report on the Torah public by the Israel Democracy Institute found a clear trend of improvement in the quality of life.
The change was due to a significant increase in the employment rate of the sector’s women and a renewed rise in the employment rate of men after several years of stagnation. The prosperity was reflected in higher incomes, lower poverty rates, and increased homeownership and car ownership.
The community numbers 1,335,000 people, 13.6% of the total population. The proportion of people up to age 19 was 58%, compared to 31% in the general Jewish public.