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  All credit goes to Adam Kovac and the Forward Document refers people to ‘doctors’ who are not MDs Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Email Print Article Republish Article A woman points to her arm to receive her booster shot at a Covid vaccination site in Los Angeles.  Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images By  Adam Kovac May 30, 2023 A newspaper serving the Haredi community is under fire for running an ad promoting a detoxification program that promotes baseless conspiracy theories about the harms of COVID-19 vaccines.  In a Twitter thread, Blimi Marcus, an Orthodox Jewish nurse practitioner, posted a picture of advertisement appearing in  Hamodia , an English and Hebrew-language newspaper that describes itself as the “daily newspaper for Torah Jewry.”  The ad featured the words “We Made a Mistake” in large letters and declared that many Jews were vaccinated due to “faulty information.” The ad falsely claimed that the vaccines are ...

  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | BENEATH A STILL SURFACE   By  Rabbi Eliyahu Gut  and  Rabbi Noach Paley   | APRIL 11, 2022 Email Print The keen insight and quiet force of Rav Gershon Edelstein Photos: Itzik Belinitzki, Flash 90 T he plastic partition that rests between Ponevezher Rosh Yeshivah Rav Gershon Edelstein and his visitors is symbolic in the sense that he can see them perfectly even as he exists in a sublime world, somewhat removed from the commotion. Minchah has just come to an end, and the small microphone he uses to communicate with visitors is powered on. Rabbi Noach Paley is first in line, and through his organization, Lev El Haneshamah, he is on the frontlines of the contemporary  chinuch  scene. He comes bearing the questions, worries, concerns, and anxieties of so many parents, and the Rosh Yeshivah receives him and all he carries with a gentle smile. This is who Rav Gershon Edelstein is and what he does. He is  mechanech ...

  ADIREI NEWS: Rav Elya Chaim Swerdloff to Address Adirei HaTorah Event May 29, 2023 8:15 pm Rav Elya Chaim Swerdloff,  rosh yeshiva  of the Paterson Yeshiva, will be one of the guest speakers at the upcoming Adirei Hatorah event,  Matzav.com  has learned. While rumors of his speaking had been bandied about, it was only finalized last night. Rav Swerdloff is recognized as one of the leading  roshei yeshivos  in the United States. His  yeshiva  is renowned for its sterling reputation and for producing  bnei Torah  of the highest caliber. Rav Swerdloff, who learned at Yeshiva Bais Hatalmud in his younger years, is a son of Reb Moish Swerdloff  zt”l ,  one of the outstanding members of the East New York  kehillah  of the last century that coalesced around the Young Israel of New Lots and the special  Yidden  of the community at the time. Rav Swerdloff’s  rebbetzin is a daughter of Rav Gershon Weisenfe...