Washington – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of enacting “unjust and inhumane policies.” “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” she told reporters. “To conflate an individual leader or ego with being against the entire country I think is a hallmark behavior of […]

YWN NOTE: There are still approximately 20 girls without a high school to go to in Lakewood, and an unknown number of children still not accepted in primary.
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Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz said on Tuesday in an interview with Ynet that if he wins the elections he’ll turn to the Likud to form a government under his leadership, adding that he won’t ask the Chareidi parties to join him because he’s “against extortion.”
“We’re against extortion,” Gantz said.

Santa Barbara – There is a Jewish woman among those missing in the tragic boat accident off the coast of California. The woman has been identified as 40-year-old Leah bas Esther. Leah’s parents who are from New Jersey are on their way to California to await search results. Misaskim of LA was on scene last […]

Divers and search crews were still looking Tuesday for nine missing people after at least 25 were confirmed dead when a boat packed with scuba divers caught fire near an island off the Southern California coast.

According to the NY Post, NYC’s Mayor DeBlasio spent just seven hours working at City Hall in the month of May.
The Post report says the Mayor showed up at his office six times in the entire month of May.
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A retired New York City police sergeant reportedly killed himself Monday, adding to the growing number of suicides in the Department this year.
The 48-year-old male officer, who has not been publicly identified, shot himself in the head while sitting in his car in a parking lot on Staten Island, a borough of New York City, the New York Post reported.

Santa Barbara, CA – Divers and search crews were still looking Tuesday for nine missing people after at least 25 were confirmed dead when a boat packed with scuba divers caught fire near an island off the Southern California coast. The dive-boat Conception became engulfed in flames before dawn as the passengers on a recreational […]

New York – The measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is considered over. There have been no new infections over the last two incubation periods, signaling the end of the outbreak, city health officials said on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported. This means that an emergency order mandating vaccines will […]

The almanah of the late R’ Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman, a 21-year-old Gerrer chosid who was killed by a Hamas rocket attack in Ashdod in May, gave birth to her second son on Monday night.