U.S. productivity grew at a solid 3.6% rate in the first three months of this year, the strongest quarterly gain in more than four years and a hopeful sign that a long stretch of weak productivity gains may be coming to an end.
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Thousands of young Jews from around the world are joined by Holocaust survivors and politicians in an annual Holocaust remembrance march in southern Poland that focuses on fighting anti-Semitism, prejudice and hatred.

Following the YWN report of the arrest of chareidi girls upon their arrival in Manchester for smuggling in Khat (a drug), it has been learned the matter is gaining notoriety throughout areas of Europe, and there are two girls currently under arrest in Oslo.

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Police on Wednesday night were summoned to the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron after a brawl erupted between persons at that location.
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President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the media and of judges who rule against his policies undermines the public’s confidence, New York state’s top legal officer said Wednesday amid several state investigations of him or entities linked to him.
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Yahadut Hatorah is demanding from the Likud a deputy minister in the Ministry of Labor & Welfare in the next government in order to prevent the Chilul Shabbos, News12 reported on Wednesday night.
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A property under development in Jackson NJ was found defaced with Swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs earlier this week.
The hate was found in the vicinity of South New Prospect Road.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he wouldn’t agree to be extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer.
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The Israel Air Force early Thursday targeted terrorist objectives in northern Gaza following incendiary balloon attacks into Israel.
The military says it hit several terror sites.
After the IAF retaliatory attack, at 5:37AM, Red Alert sirens were heard in southern Israel, in the S’dot Negev Regional Council as two rocket launches were were fired out of Gaza.

Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Pedestrians stood in place, buses stopped on busy streets and cars pulled over on major highways — their drivers standing on the roads with their heads bowed.