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In a deeply troubling incident, Sri Lankan immigration police raided a shechita site in the Mirigama area on Monday and arrested five shochtim and Rabbanim assisting the local Jewish community, according to Kikar HaShabbat.

The Rabbanim, who had come from Eretz Yisroel, Australia, and Italy, were there on short visits to help with kosher meat. Authorities claimed they violated immigration laws by performing religious work while on visitor visas. They were detained and swiftly deported.

The small local kehilla—made up of several hundred Yidden—was shaken. Community members say this wasn’t an accident, but the result of a malicious informant who has repeatedly worked to harm Jewish activity in the country. This individual has reportedly tried to shut down a local Jewish center and uses legal channels to harass the kehilla.

There is growing concern that these arrests will discourage Rabbanim, shochtim, and askanim from traveling to Sri Lanka in the future.

Kehilla leaders are now urging international Jewish organizations to speak out and pressure the Sri Lankan government to stop what they’re calling a systematic campaign of religious persecution.

They plead for support, so the Yidden there can continue living with dignity and Yiddishkeit.

With emunah p’shutah that we’re getting closer and closer to the coming of Moshiach, the Toldos Aharon Rebbe, shlita, has taken a unique step: he’s opened a kollel just for Kohanim, so they’ll be ready to serve in the Beis HaMikdash, iy”H, when the time comes.

As reported in Kikar HaShabbat, the Rebbe, who himself is a Kohen and known for his deep longing for the Geulah, recently said, “כי הנה ימים באים”—it’s clear we’re living in the days of Ikvesa d’Meshicha, and the third Beis HaMikdash is not far off.

“What will the Moshiach think,” the Rebbe asked, “if he comes to redeem Klal Yisroel and the Kohanim aren’t ready?”

To make sure we’re prepared, the Rebbe established a kollel where bnei Aharon will learn all the halachos of the Avodah—the korbanos, the begodim, the kedushah—all the inyonim they’ll need to know when they take up their holy duties again.

The kollel runs from 4:40 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. each day, and each yungerman gets a monthly stipend of $500, until Moshiach comes—may it be b’karov mamash!

A powerful reminder that emunah isn’t just in our hearts—it shows in our actions. May we all be zocheh to see the Rebbe’s vision fulfilled speedily in our days.

Airlines will not be allowed to charge passengers any additional fees for carrying hand luggage on board.
European Union lawmakers have voted to adopt a proposal that will allow air passengers to bring a personal item into the cabin and a piece of hand luggage of up to seven kilogrammes free of charge.

“Today’s vote marks an important step toward fairer and more transparent travel,” Matteo Ricci, vice-president of the EU Committee on Transport and Tourism and the bill’s lead sponsor, said in a press release.

An Indonesian airline suspended the entire cabin crew from a flight after a passenger’s lost phone was allegedly traced back to the hotel airline staff were staying in.

The incident occurred during a Garuda Indonesia flight GA716 from Jakarta to Melbourne on 6 June, when passenger Michael Tjendara claimed his phone had been stolen.

Mr Tjendara said he had placed his device in the backseat pocket before moving seats after takeoff, only to return to his old seat to find his phone gone.

The passenger explained the theft in Instagram posts that now appear to have been removed, with a series of screenshots of Find My iPhone, an Apple feature that allows people to track where their devices are.

Mr Tjendara claimed the device had been tracked close to the Mercure Hotel, where Garuda crew members were believed to be staying after the flight landed, the MailOnline reported.

The screenshots then showed the phone on the move to the Evan Walker Bridge, then near the Yarra River in Melbourne.

Mr Tjendara later wrote on LinkedIn that “sometime during that flight, my iPhone vanished. It wasn’t lost. It was stolen”.

“Later that day, Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature showed the device pinging at a Southbank hotel, the same one where the airline crew had just checked in,” he wrote.

Weight loss and diabetes jabs taken by more than a million people in the UK have been linked to a potential serious side effect, with some deaths, according to data from the UK medicines regulator.

New figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show the group of drugs that includes Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Ozempic may be associated with inflammation of the pancreas.

Wegovy and Ozempic have been linked with 113 reports of pancreatitis and one death.

Other, less widely used versions of so-called GLP-1 drugs have also been linked to cases and deaths.

There is no evidence that the drugs directly caused the deaths. And the evidence isn’t strong enough for the MHRA to restrict access.

That’s because pancreatitis also occurs in people who aren’t taking the GLP-1 drugs, with about 560 cases for every one million people in the general population. Gallstones and alcohol are the biggest causes.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump had “exaggerated” the impact of strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, while vowing that Iran would not hesitate to repeat the “slap” it had dealt to American forces in the region. He made the remarks in a televised address on Thursday.

Khamenei, appearing noticeably pale and fatigued, delivered the speech while seated in front of plain brown curtains — the same backdrop seen in his previous appearance on June 19 — suggesting that he may still be in hiding. This was his first public appearance in over a week, following an intensive Israeli air campaign that reportedly killed several top Iranian generals.

Despite widespread damage to Iran’s military infrastructure, Khamenei hailed what he described as his country’s “victory” in the 12-day air war, which ended two days ago with a fragile ceasefire. He claimed that the Israeli offensive had “almost collapsed” due to Iran’s retaliatory strikes.

In a defiant tone, the Supreme Leader told viewers, “The United States only intervened in this war because it feared that if it did not, the Zionist regime would be utterly destroyed.”

“I want to congratulate the great Iranian nation… for its victory over the fallacious Zionist regime,” he said.

Khamenei’s remarks came as military analysts continue to assess the damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear program during the conflict. Western officials have described the Israeli strikes as “highly effective,” though full verification remains difficult due to restricted access on the ground.

US President Donald Trump is reportedly pushing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude the 20-month-old war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the success of the 12-day war against Iran, several Hebrew media outlets reported Thursday, amid calls in Israel for the same.

The Kan public broadcaster reported that Trump’s demand to cancel Netanyahu’s criminal trial was also linked to this effort.

The report said that an unnamed senior Israeli official close to Netanyahu had said Trump’s Truth Social post demanding that Netanyahu no longer be forced to stand trial on multiple criminal charges “wasn’t sent out for no reason.”

“It is part of a larger move that is meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza, the release of all the hostages, an end to Netanyahu’s trial, and a serious regional move,” said the official.

According to the source, Trump published the statement “to prepare public opinion in Israel for a pardon process for Netanyahu.”

It was unclear from the report how the cancellation of Netanyahu’s trial would be integrated into a regional deal, or indeed whether such a move would even be possible.

Yet at the same time, mediators involved in the ongoing ceasefire and hostage deal negotiations between Israel and Hamas said Thursday there had yet to be any breakthrough in that regard, and that there wouldn’t be one unless both sides started taking negotiations in Cairo more seriously.

Meanwhile, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported that as part of the American president’s plan to end the war, new countries would join the Abraham Accords, and Israel would be required to commit to supporting a future Palestinian state.

According to the outlet, Trump brought up the matter of ending the war during a “euphoric” phone call with Netanyahu late on Monday, following the US’s weekend strikes on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

The two leaders were joined on the call by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, said the outlet.

Citing an unnamed source familiar with the conversation, the newspaper reported that during the phone call, the two leaders agreed to wrap up the war in Gaza within two weeks, requiring Israel to halt its military offensive and Hamas to release the remaining 50 hostages.

The Palestinian terror group’s leadership would then be exiled, and four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would be tasked with jointly governing the war-torn enclave in its place, the report said. It did not identify the other two Arab states that would supposedly govern the territory.

As part of the rehabilitation of the Strip, any Gazans wishing to emigrate would be absorbed by several unnamed countries, Israel Hayom said.

Arab states have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in the Strip as part of a pathway to a future two-state solution, a demand that, until now, Netanyahu has flatly rejected.

For the UK Jewish Orthodox Community
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Erev Shabbos

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