Dozens of people were violently slammed off the ceiling of a jetliner that encountered unexpected and intense turbulence over the Pacific Ocean Thursday.
An Air Canada flight to Australia made an emergency landing in Honolulu after 37 people were injured, nine seriously, during the sudden loss of altitude that sent people flying into the luggage compartments and aisles of the airplane.

Vice President Mike Pence visited the Chabad of Poway and its rabbi Thursday during an unannounced stop on his tour of San Diego – marking 75 days since a gunman opened fire inside the synagogue, killing one and injuring three others.
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The New York State Education Department is once again trying to gain the authority to control our Yeshivas’ curriculum, schedule and staffing. We must oppose their efforts.
We are all aware of the Guidelines that SED sought to impose last year.

Iran on Friday demanded the British navy release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing a “dangerous game” and threatening retribution, while London announced it was sending a destroyer to the Persian Gulf.
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The following are the latest YWN updates on Friday morning (11:30AM) from the ongoing search in Virginia for Rabbi Reuven Bauman.
The Virginia Beach Police and Virginia Beach Fire Department are both using their Marine Units again on Friday and searching the waters.
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The chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, continues targeting the chareidim in his election campaign. “During elections, the chareidim have a resurrection of the dead. They vote in the morning and then, they vote again and again”.

Project Chai, the crisis intervention, trauma and bereavement department of Chai Lifeline, hosted a community-wide call on Thursday morning, July 11, in response to this week’s tragedy in Norfolk. More than 1,000 people called in to hear Rabbi Dr.

Prime Minister Netanyahu makes the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine.
It is the fourth time Netanyahu has been on the cover of the US weekly.
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Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is in turmoil after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks.
In the BBC program, former staff members of the left-of-center party recounted being subjected to anti-Semitic abuse and alleged that senior party officials interfered in complaint investigations.

(By: Zvi Gluck)
It has been a flood of epic proportions.
That is the only way I can describe what has happened in my inbox in the few short days since we released an op-ed on YWN discussing the devastating number of overdoses and deaths that have befallen us and asking people to join Amudim in the fight against abuse and addiction.