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There is some confusion regarding the upcoming Woodstock Festival, and YWN reports about a possible traffic nightmare.
YWN has received more than a hundred emails informing us that “Woodstock has been cancelled, and there will be no traffic heading to the Catskills this weekend.

A group of chareidim from England and Belgium on their way to vacation were apprehended at the border crossing between Switzerland and Germany with 800kg (1,763 pounds) of fresh meat.
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With the summer coming to a close, and the tens of thousands of visitors back in the city, Catskills Hatzolah held an annual appreciation Dinner for local emergency personnel.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Chester, New York, was the birthplace of cream cheese, bringing harmony and pleasure into the world.
Now, Chester, New York, lying sixty miles north of New York City, it is a source of bitter controversy.

Israel’s deputy foreign minister says the government has decided to bar two U.S. Democratic congresswomen who support the international boycott movement from entering the country.
Tzipi Hotovely told Israel Radio in an interview Thursday that “Israel has decided not to allow” Reps.

A police officer was stabbed in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, Thursday afternoon.
Police shot and neutralized the Palestinian terrorist.
United Hatzalah says their volunteers treated one person for a stabbing after he was stabbed by the Shalshelet Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The captain of a Russian passenger jet was hailed as a hero Thursday for landing his plane in a cornfield after it collided with a flock of gulls seconds after takeoff, causing both engines to malfunction.

The NYPD has made an arrest in connection with the attempted robberies and assaults of 6 elderly Jewish men.
Detectives are still looking for three additional suspects.
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Federal prosecutors say a woman charged in a massive data breach at Capital One may have hacked more than 30 other organizations.
Paige Thompson, of Seattle, was arrested last month after the FBI said she obtained personal information from more than 100 million Capital One credit applications.