Following a petition of the Women’s Lobby, the Haifa District Court decided to call off the planned Mordechai Ben David and Motti Steinmetz concert scheduled for men only tomorrow in Haifa.
Judge Avraham Elyakim ordered the cancellation today, explaining that “it was a performance for men only.” Thus, since the concert arrangers wanted to use public funds for the event, it could not proceed if only men were permitted to attend.
The judge stated in his decision that “this judgment does not express a position on how to regular other events. There is also no impediment to events for the chareidi public, and it would be beneficial for the Haifa municipality to learn the municipal guidelines and act accordingly.”

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The Israeli military releases footage of what it says was an attempt by pro-Iranian operatives to launch an explosives-laden drone into northern Israel from Syria last Thurday.
In the footage, four men can be seen carrying the craft as they walk through fields.
The IDF says it foiled the attempt to launch the drone, but declines to say precisely how.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Unidentified UAV targets convoy of Iraqi Shiite militia, killing field commander and at least 5 other fighters, amid spiraling tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran

The NYPD was investigating after some nasty and explicit graffiti was scrawled on the famed Mesiva Tiferes Yerushalayim building located at 147 East Broadway on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Read more on Yeshiva World News

Montreal – Hundreds of children in a Hasidic community near Montreal were vaccinated against measles after five confirmed cases cropped up in recent weeks. Some 350 children in the Tosh Hasidic community were vaccinated over four days in two temporary clinics set up by the public health authority, the Canadian Jewish News reported The free [...]

Middle East – From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iran. In the year since President Donald Trump withdrew America from Iran’s nuclear deal, there’s been an [...]

The United States condemned the deadly terror attack on Friday that killed an Israeli teenage girl, in addition to injuring her brother and father.
“Another savage attack by Palestinian terrorists kills an Israeli teenager enjoying time with her family. This isn’t the path to peace, just endless suffering. May her memory be a blessing. Our prayers are with her family especially her father & brother also wounded in the attack,” tweeted U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
Rina Shnerb, 17, of Lod, succumbed to her wounds after being critically injured and treated at the scene. She was buried in her home city of Lod at 3.30 p.m., just one week after celebrating her birthday.

Newton, CT – Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the exterior walls of a synagogue in Connecticut. The graffiti on the Congregation Adath Israel synagogue building in Newtown was discovered at 7:30 Saturday morning. The graffiti was removed and painted over prior to the start of scheduled Shabbat services with the assistance of the town’s Public [...]

Abba is often a child’s first word. Yet unlike other early learned words, abba sticks throughout one’s entire life, due to its dual meaning. With selichos and Rosh Hashanah approaching, there is no better time to remind ourselves on who our true abba is. We present you with one of Jewish Music’s hottest songs of the summer- ‘Abba’, joined by the incredible Simcha Leiner, and The Yedidim Choir.
Video taken on August 13, 2019 at The Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation, at the Atkin & Mallin Wedding.
Abba
Composed by Bentzi Stein with Yiddish Lyrics by Avraham Fried
Sung by Avraham Fried and Ari Hill
Production: Aaron Teitelbaum -The Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra
Video Concept: Chad Kaminetsky