What brings an Israeli Arab to Uman for Rosh Hashanah? Ayman Ibrahim, an Israeli Arab from Abu Gosh went to Uman for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. He was asked to be part of a special team from United Hatzalah who will make up a non-Jewish segment of the volunteers who headed to Ukrainian city provide medical coverage for the tens of thousands of Jews who will spend the Jewish New Year there.

A bus driver employed by the Netiv Express Company driving from Meron to Jerusalem, stopped and announced a ten-minute break. According to the statements from passengers, he ended the break and drove off ten minutes later, taking off with three small children on board, but leaving their mom behind.
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HaRav Baruch Dov Diskin, Rosh Yeshiva of Orchot Torah in Bnei Brak, has refused to marry the son of Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, Amos Lieberman. Amos is a student in the Yeshiva, lives a Chareidi life, and has built a close relationship with Rabbi Diskin.
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The New York City Police Department tells YWN that they are looking for two men in regards to a shooting last week which ended up with bullets striking a Jewish-owned vehicle.
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Aryeh Deri tweeted on Wednesday his shock at the loss of a Knesset seat by the UTJ (Yahadut Hatorah) party due to the final count of vote being issued by the Central Elections committee.
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The NYPD and Boro Park Shomrim were on the scene investigating a hate crime in the heart of Boro Park’s Orthodox Jewish community.
Swastikas were found inside a residential building on 44 Street between 15th and 15th Avenues on Wednesday Afternoon.

Officials have announced an end to the measles outbreak that infected 312 people since last October in Rockland County in New York City’s northern suburbs.
The state Health Department says Tuesday that 42 days have passed with no new cases in Rockland.

In line with the bi-annual custom, the kvitlach at the Kosel are being removed from between the stones ahead of Rosh Hashanah. They are also removed annually ahead of Pesach.
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The office of Israel’s president says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the difficult task of forming a new government.
Wednesday’s decision came after President Reuven Rivlin’s attempts to broker a unity government between Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, failed.
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25-year-old Yosef Dov Bakar Z”L was Niftar on Wednesday following critical injuries sustained in a vehicular accident in Kazbegi, near Tbilisi, in Georgia earlier in the week. He was niftar in a Georgian hospital.
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