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Ongoing. On 30 April 2021, at about 00:45 IDT ( UTC+3 ), a deadly crowd crush occurred on Mount Meron, Israel, during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, at which it was estimated that 100,000 people were in attendance. Forty-five men and boys at the event were killed, and about 150 ...
The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel.He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary ...
Simon Leviev (Hebrew: סיימון לבייב; born Shimon Yehuda Hayut, 27 September 1990) is an Israeli con artist convicted of forgery and fraud. According to The Times of Israel , between 2017 and 2019 he allegedly conned an estimated $800 million dollars from people and banks in a Ponzi scheme .
e. Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (born October 30, 1959) [ 1] is the former CEO of Agriprocessors, a now-bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, formerly owned by his father, Aaron Rubashkin. During his time as CEO of the plant, Agriprocessors grew into one of the nation's largest kosher meat producers, but was ...
Katamon, Israel. Dynasty. Erlau / Chassam Sofer. Yochanan Sofer (January 1, 1923 – February 22, 2016) [1] [2] [3] was the rebbe of the Erlau dynasty. He was born in Eger, Hungary, where his father and grandfather were also rebbes. After surviving the Holocaust, he founded a yeshiva, first in Hungary and then a few years later in Jerusalem .
The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai is a Jewish apocalypse of the mid-eighth century about the revelations of the 2nd-century rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also known as Rashbi. [1] It presented a Judaic messianic interpretation of the Arab conquest of the early 7th century and appears to confirm the authenticity of similar interpretations found in ...
Spinka financial controversy. The Spinka financial controversy is a case in which five Spinka charitable organisations under the auspices of Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, the Spinka Rebbe of Boro Park, as well as Weisz himself, his personal assistant, and five others were charged with various counts of tax fraud and money laundering. [1]
Simeon ben Gamliel (I) ( Hebrew: שמעון בן גמליאל or רשב"ג הראשון; c. 10 BC – 70 AD) was a Tanna sage and leader of the Jewish people. He served as nasi of the Great Sanhedrin at Jerusalem during the outbreak of the First Jewish–Roman War, succeeding his father in the same office after his father's death in 50 AD and ...