A Ukrainian Airlines flight packed with Jews heading from JFK Airport to Tel Aviv for Sukkos came under “Jewish profiling” on Thursday.
Flight PS777 took off in JFK, and had a stopover in Ukraine.

Video of the deadly shooting in Germany was easily accessible on 4chan, BitChute and other sites, attracting tens of thousands of views, despite efforts by tech companies to curb the spread of violent content.

The attached photos were submitted to YWN by the person this happened to.
The family member tell YWN that he woke up on Yom Kippur morning to the strong smell of burning plastic.
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Tragedy struck the Baltimore community, as word spread of the tragic Petira of Mrs Deborah Friedman A”H.
Mrs Friedman was walking home from Shul on Motzei Yom Kippur, when she was R”L struck by a vehicle on Cheswolde Road.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday there was “no blackmail” in the phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump that helped spark an impeachment inquiry.
Zelenskiy is trying to save his reputation and distance himself from the U.S.
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Police are searching for a suspect who set fire on the steps outside Park Slope Jewish Center Wednesday morning.
Police say the arson happened at 1320 Eighth Ave.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reelection.
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Two people were killed when a neo-nazi and anti-semitic activist opened fire outside of a shul in the city of Halle in Germany on Yom Kippur.
Police told reporters that at least two people had been killed after the shooter, who has been identified as Stephan Balliet, a neo-nazi and self-proclaimed anti-semite.

A Magen David Adom Spokesperson stated that the organization responded to 2,491 emergency calls over Yom Kippur in Israel. A United Hatzalah Spokesperson stated that they responded to more than 3,000 emergency calls in Israel and Ukraine over the holiday.
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The goats play a central, yet little understood, role in the avodah of Yom Kippur (no longer performed, but part of the Tefilos).  The chicken plays a role in the Ashkenazic practice of Kapparos immediately before Yom Kippur– also a little understood ritual.
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