In just 12 hours, volunteers from Boro Park Shomrim successfully assisted in apprehending four criminals off the streets of Boro Park.
The arrest rally began at around midnight (Thursday morning), when Shomrim witnessed a man shoplifting on 59 Street and 16 Avenue.

A large earthquake has rattled a large swath of Southern California. There are no immediate reports of damage.
The quake measured with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck Wednesday morning near the town of Ridgecrest, California, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.

The following is a transcript of a question asked to Rav Avigdor Miller ZATZAL regarding the 4th of July – (From tape # 833 – July 1991):
QUESTION: Should a religious Jew hang a flag out on July 4th?

Shas party chairman, Minister of Interior Aryeh Deri on Wednesday spoke out regarding the week’s violence by members of Israel’s Ethiopian community.
The violence was sparked by the police shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Ethiopian Solomon Tekka.
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The Justice Ministry Police Investigation Unit (PIU) looking into the border police beating of autistic Chareidi man Yanki Rosenberg has come to its end. The decision and recommendations in the case are expected to be announced soon.

The search for missing Mevo Modi’in resident and father of five, Moshe Ilovitz, 37, continues. He has been missing since the Shabbos before Lag B’Omer, last seen at the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron.
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Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has pulled ahead of public defender Tiffany Cabán by 20 votes in the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney, city Board of Election officials said Wednesday night.

A North Carolina man charged with anonymously threatening to lynch a Muslim-American political candidate in Virginia also is accused of posting an anti-Semitic threat on a Florida synagogue’s Facebook page.
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President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that he is not dropping efforts to include a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census, even as the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without it.
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An Indian man who had been declared dead woke up just before he was set to be buried during a funeral ceremony, according to reports.
Mourners at Mohammad Furqan, 20, was declared dead by Indian medical professionals, but his surprise awakening at the funeral in the Northern Indian city of Lucknow shocked mourners.