Donald Trump wants more than acquittal. He wants vindication. With impeachment by the House appearing certain, the president has made clear that he views the next step, a trial in the GOP-controlled Senate, as his focus. The president sees the senators not just as a jury deciding his fate, but as partners in a campaign […]

Reuven ben Yaakov Avinu (1567 BCE-1442 BCE)
Rav Menashe ben Yisrael of Amsterdam, author of Nishmas Odom. He was as friend of Rembrandt van Rijn, who apart from making an etching of the Rabbi also illustrated his books. It was Rabbi Menashe, whom together with Rabbi Jacob Sasportas, pleaded with Oliver Cromwell to allow the Jews to settle in England on philosophical and theological grounds.
Rav Menachem Nachum of Shtefanesht, Romania, one of the 5 sons of Rav Yisrael of Ruzhin (1823-1869). He was succeeded by his son, Rav Avraham Matisyahu, when the latter was 21 years old.
Rav Dovid Abuchatzeira (1919)

The Trump administration on Wednesday hit Iran with new sanctions that target several transportation firms as it continues its “maximum pressure campaign” against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The sanctions target Iran’s state shipping line and a China-based company that has been involved in delivering missile parts to Iran. They […]

Mindel Ferencz, 31, and Moshe Deutsch, 24, buried as evidence mounts that incident anti-Semitic attack; 'This is a hate crime,' says mayor, 'I know enough to call it what this is'

The 22nd Knesset officially dissolved at midnight on Wednesday, after no MK was able to secure 61 signatures to form a government in the 21-day time period allotted for this.

Can you find the hidden sandcastles in Lakewood this week? Bonei Olam of Lakewood hid sand castle images throughout all the local publications that come to your door. There are 16 castles between the BP Weekly (6), Voice of Lakewood (4) and the Lakewood Shopper Family Room (6). If you find all the castles in […]

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rav Yitzchok Asher Roszansky zt”l, dean and founder of Tiferes Bais Yaakov Elementary School of Lakewood.
Rav Roszansky had been feeling unwell and was in the hospital, where he suffered a heart attack.
The levayah is being held tonight at the Congregation Sons of Israel Holocaust Memorial Chapel, located at 613 Ramsey Street, in Lakewood NJ.
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The two Jersey City shooters who got out of their U-Haul and approached a kosher supermarket with their rifles drawn before killing three people inside were Francine Graham, 50, and David Anderson, 47.
The murderers killed Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24, and Miguel Douglas, 49, before police arrived. Graham and Anderson had already killed Detective Joseph Seals in a cemetery a mile away after he reportedly approached them to ask questions about the murder of 34-year-old Uber driver Michael Rumberger whose body was found in his the trunk of a car.
Police sources say Anderson was once a Black Hebrew Israelite, a group that believes black people are the true descendants of ancient Israelites.

New Zealand medical staff were working around the clock Thursday treating severely burned survivors of a volcanic eruption that police said was believed to have killed 16 people. The enormity of the task facing New Zealand’s hospital burn units was clear when Dr. Peter Watson, a chief medical officer, said at a news conference that […]