Comedian Jon Stewart scolded Congress Tuesday for failing to ensure that a victims’ compensation fund set up after the 9/11 attacks never runs out of money.
Stewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, angrily called out lawmakers for failing to attend a hearing on a bill to ensure the fund can pay benefits for the next 70 years.

The Health Department announced today that it has closed a school in Williamsburg for failing to comply with an Order of the Health Commissioner in response to the current measles outbreak.

The directorate of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Batei Din on Tuesday released data regarding 2018, including divorces in chareidi cities.
Documents state that the number of couples divorced in 2018 stands at 11,145, as compared to 10,661 in the year 2017, a 5% increase.
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A pack of delinquent youths used Shabos and Shavuos night to terrorize many people around Bnei Brak, smashing windows and light fixtures, eventually ending their Shavuos night by storming the Dorog Bais Medrash, leaving 20 Chassidim injured.

There were dramatic rescues at a building fire in Jerusalem, Tuesday afternoon, but thankfully no injuries.
The Israel Fire Department says the fire was on the upper floors of a 4 story building located at 1 Musayof Street at around 6:45PM IL.

When mispallalim from the Tiferes Shimon Shul in Bnei Brak arrived on Tuesday morning for shachris, they were horrified to see the shul had been broken into, including the Aron Kodesh, and Sifrei Torah had been stolen.

Shliach in Rosario, Argentina, Rabbi Shlomo Tawil, was attacked and beaten in an anti-Semitic attack on Sunday night, the first night of Shavuos.
According to reports, Rabbi Tawil was attacked by three youths, who began by hurling anti-semitic slurs at him, and then began to physically assault him, punching him in the head and stomach.

Iran has revoked the press accreditation for The New York Times’ correspondent based in Tehran without explanation, the newspaper reported Tuesday.
While the newspaper said it remained hopeful Thomas Erdbrink soon would be allowed to work again, the revocation comes amid heightened tensions between the U.S.

French police smashed a neo-Nazi cell accused of plotting attacks on Jewish or Muslim places of worship, judicial sources said Tuesday.
Five members of the group, who were “close in ideology to the neo-Nazi movement” were charged between September and May over the alleged plot, which was still “ill-defined,” a source close to the investigation said.

B’chasdei Hashem, the spokesperson of Shaare Zedek Hospital reported on Tuesday afternoon that there is a “significant improvement” in the condition of Gavriel Lavi, as he is healing from his wounds.
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