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Rabbi Shragi Gestetner was born to make music. He started composing when he was 12. He sold his first song at 18. His debut album, Shragee, pulsates with the joy of a man who has found his calling. The year after it came out, Tablet called Gestetner one of the “rising talents of the current generation” of Hasidic music. “His voice was the sound of music,” said Gershy Moskowits, the producer who discovered him. “It sounded like a violin playing.” But when Gestetner died at Mt. Meron ...

At least three Hudson Valley natives were among the dozens killed in Israel when a massive crowd of holiday worshippers went wild, according to reports.On Friday, April 30, mayhem broke out at a Jewish religious festival that was attended …

1 Read / Add Comments At least three Hudson Valley natives were among the dozens killed in Israel when a massive crowd of holiday worshippers went wild, according to reports. On Friday, April 30, mayhem broke out at a Jewish religious festival that was attended by tens of thousands of people in Mount Meron, killing upwards of 45 people and hospitalizing more than 100 others. According to reports, among the dead were Rockland County natives Shragi Gestetner, age 3...

Meron victims: Torah prodigy, singer from Montreal and father of two-week-old baby Family members frantically attempted to contact their loved ones who were at Meron, not knowing if they were among the dead and injured; relatives of some victims learned of their loss when names of casualties began to appear on WhatsApp Ynet | Published: 04.30.21 , 15:20 Simcha Bunim Diskind was considered a brilliant Torah scholar and prodigy in his yeshiva. The 23-year-old member of the Ger Hassidic Dynasty...

UpdatedFri, Apr 30, 2021 at 3:33 pm ET Reply(1) Israeli security officials and rescuers stand around the bodies of victims who died during a Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. (Ishay Jerusalemite/Behadrei Haredim via AP) HUDSON VALLEY, NY — Two men from Monsey and a Kiryas Joel resident died in Israel in a massive crowd of holiday worshippers at Mount Meron, according to news reports. The Associated Press reported mayhem broke out early Friday at...

However, he said, “there was also a fantastic rescue team there.” Another, anonymous, eyewitness told the outlet, “General chaos, that’s what happened.” He said that the initial cause of the incident was a slippery iron walkway, followed by a flight of stairs. “It was a recipe for disaster,” he said, “because suddenly — boom, glitch.” He added that he was in flat-soled shoes, and as a result, “I couldn’t stop, and suddenly I saw one falling on top of another, and then th...

Hudson Valley residents among people killed in stampede at religious gathering in Israel News 12 Staff Updated on:Apr 30, 2021, 5:34pm EDT Two Hudson Valley Hassidic communities are now mourning the loss of three young men who died in a stampede, following a Jewish holy celebration Thursday night in Israel. At least 45 people died following overcrowding conditions at a Lag Ba’Omer celebration in a rural area of Israel. Three of them are from the Orthodox Jewish communities of Kiryas Joel ...