Yeshiva students Gilad Shaar, 16; Naftali Frenkel, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19, have been missing since late Thursday or Friday, and were last seen around Gush Etzion, according to the Israel Defense Forces. They are feared kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. The IDF has launched Operation Brother’s Keeper to find them and bring them home.
At presstime, we continue to daven for their swift rescue. Please join us. Their Hebrew names are Gilad Michoel ben Bat Galim, Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah, and Eyal ben Iris Teshura.
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey announced a Bring Back Our Boys Solidarity Rally, which took place at Yeshivat Noam on Thursday, June 19th, at 8pm.
A Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/BringBackOurBoysNow, and Twitter campaign, https://twitter.com/BringBackIL, is available for more news, and people are asked to use the following hashtags in their social media interactions: #EyalGiladNaftali, #BringBackOurBoys, #OperationBrothersKeeper, and #VirtualVigil. Also the IDF twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson
The Orthodox Union, with its international youth movement, NCSY, and its Department of Community Engagement and Synagogue Services, and in partnership with Bnei Akiva and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), has launched a virtual vigil; an around-the-clock schedule of learning, prayer, and mitzvot, performed by OU/NCSY members and partners throughout the world. Individuals interested in participating can go to www.ncsy.org/bring-back-boys and fill out a simple form to select a day and a 30-minute slot, and identify what activity they are committing to for that time.
Chabad has launched a “Pledge a Mitzvah” campaign http://www.chabad.org/special/campaigns/mitzvot/mitzvot_cdo/aid/2616185/jewish/Mitzvot-for-the-Israeli-Students.htm/mobile/false.
The rabbis of Israel have requested that Am Yisrael to say several tehillim: Psalm 83- http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2683.htm, Psalm 130- http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt26d0.htm, Psalm 142-http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt26e2.htm.
For continuing updates, visit Jpost live blog about news of the kidnapped teens: http://www.jpost.com/National-News/LIVE-BLOG-The-search-for-the-kidnapped-teens-359360
