A New Yorker was convicted Thursday of providing material support to Hezbollah by seeking targets in New York City for terrorist attacks.
A jury returned its verdict against Ali Kourani in Manhattan federal court after a weeklong trial.
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The FDNY was working at two seperate two-alarm fires in Williamsburg, Friday morning.
The first fire was at 801 Bedford Avenue near Park Avenue at around 8:40AM. The fire was on the 6th floor of a multi-story building.

Police are looking for a man who stole $320,000 in jewelry from a Flatbush home a few weeks ago.
The NYPD tells YWN that on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at approximately 5:30PM, an 83-year-old woman returned to her home in the vicinity of Ave L and East 26th Street and discovered her home was broken into from a side window.

A warehouse worker said he heard the deafening noise of an F-16 jet moments before it smashed through the roof of the building near a Southern California air base.
“Next thing I know I just hear this explosion and turn around to the back of the building, and I just seen a burst of flames and just the ceiling started falling through every part of the building,” Daniel Gallegos told KABC-TV.

A Holocaust survivor welcomed a U.S. Army veteran to her suburban Detroit home on Monday and thanked him for taking part in the 1945 liberation of the German concentration camp where she was being held.

A Florida man is charged with spitting on an elderly Jewish couple after threatening to assault another group of Jews.
The Miami Herald reports that 33-year-old Daniel Starikov was arrested Wednesday for the March 22 (Friday night) assaults.

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Hundreds attended Levayas in Flatbush and in Eretz Yisroel for Rebbitzen Rochel Leah Brudny A”H, who was Niftar this past Monday at the age of 94.

MDA on Thursday morning responded to a call for a flipped dump truck in the Yarkon district, on Route 4613 from the Bedek Junction to Barkat Junction. The truck was loaded with sand, and it fell on a parked car.

Police in a Boston suburb are investigating the circumstances around a suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home and are looking for someone spotted on a neighbor’s surveillance video.
According to a statement Wednesday, firefighters and police responded to the Arlington home on Lake Street at about 11 p.m.

Alongside an editorial column dripping hatred for the chareidim and the Gerrer Chassidim in particular, the daily Haaretz on Thursday, May 16, 2019, displays a scornful cartoon that includes the image of the Gerrer Rebbe Shlita.