Hate has reared its ugly head again this past Shabbos, as a Hasidic man was assaulted in an unprovoked attacked.
The incident happened at around 1:15AM on Broadway near Lynch Street, when the man – wearing his Shtreimel and Bekeshe – was confronted by a group of thugs.

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin was Menachem Avel on the Prezuazman family, whose son Pinchas Menachem HY”D was killed yesterday by flying shrapnel in Ashdod.

Russian emergency workers have recovered 41 bodies and two flight recorders from the wreckage of a plane that caught fire during an emergency landing in Moscow, officials said Monday as they sought to discover the cause of the disaster.
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Twenty of his rivals have lined up to run for president, believing the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination was wide open. But one week after launching his campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden is threatening to prove them wrong.
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A White House decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier and other military resources to send a message to Iran followed “clear indications” that Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S.

Palestinian officials said a ceasefire agreement has been reached with Israel to end a recent surge of violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel that has led to the deaths of at least 24 Palestinians and four Israelis.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers.
“I think a farmer that produces the food we eat may be almost as important as some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy,” Sanders said during a campaign event in Osage, a town of fewer than 4,000 people.

Ambulance sirens are heard fairly often during a regular day and even more so when a national emergency is occurring. Over the past few days, as air raid sirens in the south of Israel have become far too common, the ambulance sirens, which can sound similar, have been causing people to panic unnecessarily and believe that an air raid siren is sounding when there isn’t one.

Germany’s health minister is proposing fines for parents of school-age children who haven’t been vaccinated for measles amid concern that the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease could make a comeback.
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North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea expressed concern that the launches were a violation of an inter-Korean agreement to cease all hostile acts.