The lone fatality in the Colorado high school shooting was Kendrick Castillo, a friendly 18-year-old who, witnesses said, leaped from his desk in a literature class and charged the two attackers, sacrificing his life to buy classmates time to escape.

A Miami man was arrested Tuesday after police said he made threatening phone calls to a Miami Beach bagel store, targeting the business because its owners are Jewish.
According to the arrest report, Jorge Mateo Rucinque, 26, made several calls on Monday to Bagel Time Cafe on the 3900 block of Alton Road.

The Health Department today served closure orders to “Simche Kinder” located in Williamsburg at 812 Myrtle Ave. There are 77 children enrolled in this school.
The Health Dept says they did this because “this center repeatedly failed to comply with an Order of the Health Commissioner in response to the current measles outbreak”.

During an interview with the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that Democrats could move to arrest Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin if he continues to not cooperate with a House subpoena for President Trump’s tax returns, exercising a little-used but well-recognized power against those found in contempt of Congress.

As Israel prepared to observe yet another Remembrance Day, the Neturi Karta extremists did not disappoint as they were out at Jerusalem’s Kikar Shabbos to protest the day.
At some point on Tuesday night, they tore an Israeli flag off of an Egged bus that was halted due to their protest.

Agudath Israel of America, in conjunction with Hatzolah of Borough Park, Flatbush, and Williamsburg, and other community organizations and health care providers, is pursuing a coordinated, community-wide effort in New York City to make measles vaccinations available.

For the second time this week, a Hasidic man was punched in the head – just for being Jewish.
The latest attack was on Tuesday evening at around 7:30PM.
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Iran threatened Wednesday to resume higher enrichment of uranium in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal a year after President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, raising tensions as a U.S.
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Neturei Karta Activists on Monday inaugurated the famous ‘Knesses Yisrael Hebron’ building that is located in a PA (Palestinian Authority) area of the holy city.
A number of young Neturei Karta activists arrived at the ancient building with the knowledge of and permission from PA leaders in the city.

Six people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when an overnight fire ravaged an apartment in a city-owned Harlem building, fire and police officials said.
Firefighters, who were called at around 1:40 a.m., moved aggressively into the flames and thick smoke and found a man and a woman, as well as two girls and two boys ages 3 to 11, in bedrooms of the fifth-floor apartment, according to Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.