Residents of a small town in southeastern Poland marked a Christian holiday on Friday by making a large doll resembling a Hasidic Jew, hanging it, beating it up and then burning it.
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On Sunday night, YWN-Israel reported that an 11-year-old child was struck and seriously injured in a hit and run on Golda Meir Blvd. in Jerusalem.
Police investigators have since reported locating the vehicle in Givat Ze’ev and they are now in the process of finding the driver of the vehicle responsible for seriously injuring the child.

A comedian whose only political experience consists of playing a president on TV cruised toward a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election Sunday in what was seen as a reaction against the country’s entrenched corruption and low standard of living.

First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable.
But President Donald Trump’s legal team, through a combination of bluster, legal precedent and shifting tactics, managed to protect their client from a potentially perilous in-person interview during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation .

Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago.

The snowy Mount Hermon site was painted white on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach in Israel, having placed a fresh coat of white powder on the ski resort.
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The Kaliver Rebbe Shlita has been showing signs if increased weakness over the past two weeks, preventing the rebbe from attending Yomtov tefilos in his beis medrash.
There is much concern among chassidim and others, as it is reported the rebbe fell at home two weeks ago, and his condition has deteriorated since; preventing him from bearing weight on the injured leg.

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are in Wyoming for Pesach.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the couple arrived at Cheyenne Regional Airport in President Donald Trump’s personal Boeing 757 Thursday before heading to Saratoga, a resort town about 150 miles away (population: 1,686).

The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian terrorist charged with the horrific murder of a 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher.
Israeli forces bulldozed two apartments belonging to the father of Arafat Erfayieh in the Hebron on Friday.

It was a horrific scene in Moscow on Erev Pesach, as talmidim at Yeshiva Toras Chaim awoke to find devastation from an apparent arson fire.
The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Lebel, told the media there were 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time of the arson.