A 24-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly harassing students outside Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes in North Miami Beach in what authorities are investigating as a hate-motivated incident. Sources tell YWN that on Wednesday, May 1st, surveillance footage captured the suspect, Jose Garrido, walking near Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes just before 11:30 a.m. He was seen picking something up off the ground and throwing it onto the school’s field where students were playing. Moments later, he returned wearing black gloves and holding what appeared to be a whip. Garrido then approached two students and made an unintelligible remark before attempting to grab one of their yarmulkes. He allegedly took an aggressive stance while continuing to  harass them with the whip in hand.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location. The European Space Agency’s space debris office also tracked the spacecraft’s doom after it failed to appear over a German radar station. It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus, the solar system’s hottest planet.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the biggest jewelry center in the United

In an emotional address, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum of Satmar issued a call to his chassidim living in Williamsburg to leave the increasingly unaffordable neighborhood and move to Kiryas Yoel in Monroe, where housing is cheaper and the chareidi atmosphere is stronger.
Speaking during the inauguration of a new yeshiva ketanah building in Williamsburg, the Rebbe delivered what he described as daas Torah and plain common sense. “In the past, there weren’t enough housing options in Kiryas Yoel,” he acknowledged, “but today there are multiple new projects underway, with affordable prices. There is now room for the entire kehilla to relocate there.”

The siblings of Tzvi Feldman, H’yd spoke to the press on Sunday about the news they received in the morning about the return of their brother’s body after 43 years. “This morning, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to our home and informed us of the news we’ve been waiting for almost 43 years,” Tzvi’s sister, Anat Cohen, said. “”We davened and we always believed that Tzvika would return home and now he returned and is here, in Eretz Yisrael.” “We cried all our lives that our battle hasn’t ended. But today we thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu for the closing of the circle. And we thank Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who promised us all these years, who promised our parents 30 years ago, that he’ll bring Tzikva home.

A historic project is underway to rebuild the only mikvah taharah in Meron—serving every group in Klal Yisroel, in one of the holiest places on earth. Of all places, you wouldn’t expect this.  In Meron, the most visited Jewish site in the world, the only mikvah taharah has fallen into deep disrepair and is unfit for use.  Each year, over a million people pour in, drawn by the kedusha of Reb Shimon. And yet, just steps away, the only mikvah taharah stands in deep disrepair—its doors closed to those who need it most. Surrounding Meron are thousands of families in Moshav Meron and nearby communities, some of whom have no other mikvah at all.

IDF forces are operating across the Gaza Strip, striking over 50 terrorist targets in the last 24 hours.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The fire that cause