In an interview which was conducted with Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the president of Lakewood Yeshiva, he shatters the myth which is well-entrenched in the yeshiva world: The legendary story about Reb Shlomo Carlebach who was expelled from of the Lakewood Yeshiva and composed the song “Lulaei Torascha” immediately after Rav Aharon Kotler threw him out, while he was still sitting on the steps on the way out of the yeshiva. The grandson of Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l related that “Shlomo Carlebach was never kicked out of Lakewood, Rav Aharon loved him. He was, as we all know, exceptionally musically inclined… I can imagine that at some point in his life his musical interests and drive exceeded his desire to learn in Yeshiva”.

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After alleged corruption halted construction of a planned Jewish complex in Uman, Ukrainian President Vladamir Zelansky met with Duvi Honig, founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, in a effort to stop the serious corruption the country overall and in the city of Uman, Ukraine.
In a conversation earlier today, Duvi Honig told Belaaz News that President Zelansky committed to look into the alleged corruption saga that has reportedly also been holding up the construction of a synagogue in Uman for more than a decade.

President Donald Trump’s longtime bank revealed Tuesday that it has tax records Congress is seeking in its investigation of the president’s finances. Deutsche Bank said in court papers it has tax returns responsive to a subpoena sent this year, in which Congress asked the bank for a host of documents related to Trump and his […]

State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday they are in active settlement talks with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation’s opioid crisis. Purdue has been cast by attorneys and addiction experts as a main […]

A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for Europe capsized Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, with at least 40 people missing and presumed drowned, U.N. officials said, as a support group reported it had gotten a call from someone on the vessel “crying and shouting” that passengers had died already. At least 65 […]

A veteran Israeli television personality apologized on Tuesday for saying on the air that “Arabs are savages.” Yaron London, 79, had made the remarks a day earlier during his show “London and Geula” on Channel 11, the Kan public broadcaster. They came during a discussion of the HBO series “Our Boys,” centering on the aftermath […]

Japan’s downgrading of South Korea’s trade status took effect Wednesday, a decision that has already set off a series of reactions hurting bilateral relations. Japanese manufacturers now must apply for approval for each technology-related contract for South Korean export, rather than the simpler checks granted a preferential trade partner, which is still the status of […]

Cameras cannot be operated at polling stations, the head of Israel’s Central Elections Committee decided. The decision is directed at the Likud party, which had planned to place cameras in more than 1,000 polling stations in Arab communities. During the April election, Likud activists placed more than 1,200 cameras hidden in polling stations or on […]

Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without infringing on First Amendment rights. The pendulum has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that […]