The following open letter to Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon was sent by a long-time Har Nof resident who is among the many who object to the mayor’s recently-announced decision to change the name of Har Nof to Neot Yosef.

Once again, “Jewish WhatsApp” has struck again.
This time, it’s rumors that President trump is considering attending the Siyum Hashas on January 1st.
The fake news seems to have originated from an unverified, uncredible Twitter account which wrote:
“BREAKING NEWS: Unconfirmed reports that President Trump is seriously considering to attend the Daf Hayoimy Siyum Hashas in MetLife stadium!”.

There’s controversy ahead over new criminal justice reforms.
Cash bail will be eliminated Jan. 1 for hundreds of offenses, and as many as 900 defendants could be let out earlier and given rewards to get them to show up to court, CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported Monday.

Graffiti “Ron Kobi is a Nazi” was discovered on Tuesday morning near Talmid Torah Tiferes Tiveria near the kever of Rabbi Akiva.
Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi arrived at the scene and once again, launched a live broadcast on Facebook, in which he said, “I took part in the memorial for Yitzchak Rabin just a few days ago.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Shamshon Grozovsky ZATZAL. He was 97.
Rav Grozovsky was born in Vilna to his father, Hagaon HaRav Reuven Gozovsky, who was a son in law of Hagaon HaRav Boruch Ber Leibowitz ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Kaminetz.
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President Trump will be joining more than 100 Orthodox jews in NYC for lunch next week.
The details of the major event were kept under wraps the past few months, as it was being arranged and a date set.
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At least three women and six children, all apparently U.S. citizens, were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico, officials said Tuesday. Six children were found alive, one child had a bullet wound and one child was still missing.

A new Israeli app assists people in locating the kevarim of their relatives in Israeli cemeteries with turn-by-turn voice directions, according to a Reuters report.
The application, called Gravez, developed by app development company Corido, can be downloaded on any cellphone.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbetzin Zissel (Gisele) Horovitz A”H. She was 92.
She was a Mechaneches at Bais Yaakov in Boro Park for more than 50 years, where she had thousands of students, instilling in them Yiras Shomayim, and teaching them Torah, Halacha and Tzniyus.
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The Mora D’asra of Modi’in Illit, HaRav Meir Kessler, spoke out against teaching children secular subjects, warning, “They are preparing the children for the workplace”.