By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a remarkable Hoshana Rabba,with many more people in attendance than expected.  There were seforim, chumashim, and siddurim everywhere.  They were piled on the tables and were not in their shelves.  The Gabbai was at a complete loss as to how he could manage to once again restore […]

Police say a group of burglars stole $140,000 worth of luggage and jewelry from a shopping mall magnate’s New York City mansion.
The Bronx home belongs to Don Ghermezian, the CEO of the company that runs Mall of America in Minnesota and the new American Dream complex in New Jersey.

New York’s court system is planning to expand the gender options on jury documents to be more inclusive of people who do not identify as male or female.
The system aims to have the updated juror information card set for distribution by early January, said state court spokesman Lucian Chalfen.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
In the aftermath of the assassination of Bahaa Abu el Atta, a video went viral on social media that was recorded on Rechov Yaffo just before the entrance to Tachana HaMerkazit.
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Around 400 Orthodox Jews gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday to give thanks to President Trump, and to throw their support behind his reelection campaign.

President Donald Trump says he’ll be releasing the transcript of his April telephone conversation with Ukraine’s new leader “before week’s end!”
Trump’s promise to release an account of his first conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy comes a day before House impeachment investigators begin public hearings.

Baha Abu al-Ata was one of the top leaders of Islamic Jihad in Palestine (PIJ), which is funded by Iran, and was behind several attacks on Israel this year, including rocket strikes on Israel’s south in August, April and September.
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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein slammed the members of the Arab Joint List for their reaction to the IDF operation which eliminated top Islamic leader Baha Abu Al Ata overnight Monday.

The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, HaRav Shlomo Amar, wrote a letter to public officials on Tuesday in light of the tense security situation in the south, encouraging them to strengthen shemiras Shabbos, Kikar Shabbos reported.

A group of seminary girls have alot to thank hashem for today, after they escaped what could have been a catastrophe.
According to information provided to YWN by parents of some students, the seminary had plans to go to the Negev on a trip today, but due to the deteriorating security situation in the South, it was cancelled.