Helped by the Israel Women’s Network, an 18-year-old woman barred from an Egged bus by a religious driver due to inappropriate garb is suing the company for $70,000 under charges of gender discrimination.
The woman was trying to reach her first day at work from a West Bank settlement and needed to be transported there by her mother due to the driver’s refusal.
Regretting that the driver “applied his personal worldview” to the situation, Egged said he had been summoned for a disciplinary inquiry.
{Matzav.com Israel}

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Bedford Center is known for its high end elder care encompassing all arenas. Celebrating yomim tovim in an uplifting manner is high on Bedford Center’s priority list.  Lag B’Omer was no different, as Bedford Center made every effort to provide its residents with a memorable and enriching experience.
Wednesday afternoon found residents seated in the beis medrash and family room watching the Boyaner Rebbe lead his yearly Lag B’Omer celebration in Miron.  The feedback was overwhelming as residents reminisced of Lag Baomers in the past years. The next afternoon, residents once again joined to enjoy a live hookup of the Toldos  Lag B’Omer in Bedford Center

By Gabriel Geller – Royal Wine
Shavuos is not an 8-day long yom tov like Succos or Pesach, yet it is no less important. Indeed, as we celebrate Matan Torah, we also have special yom tov meals which means special wines are in order, as well. While the minhag in many communities is to eat a milchig meal, whether it is followed by a fleishig one or not, let’s for once this coming Shavuos not exclusively focus on white or rosé wines.

Police are continuing their search for Moshe Ilovitz, a 37-year-old resident of Mevo Modi’im, after he disappeared in Meron nearly two weeks ago.
Moshe was last seen on Friday night the Shabbos before Lag BaOmer in Meron near the kever of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai and hasn’t been seen since.
According to the police report, he was about 5″11, with brown hair, brown eyes and a long beard. The last time he was seen, he wore a buttoned white shirt, blue jeans, brown shoes.
On Monday, dozens of volunteers, together with students from the pre-military academy of Keshet Yehuda from the Golan Heights, raided the forests, paths and riverbeds in the mountains of Meron and the surrounding area.

Michael Freilich, a member of the center-right party The New Flemish Alliance, the largest party of the Belgiun Parliament, became the first Orthodox Jew to sit in the Belgian government.
Long-time editor of Belgium’s largest Jewish newspaper, Antwerp-based and pro-Israeli, Freilich announced his resignation and candidacy for parliament last January, notably to try to change the recent shechita bans in the country.
Because of his position as fifth on the list, the 38-year-old was sure of winning. Freilich ended up with nearly 13,000 votes.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}

A Nazi swastika and the words “No Jews” scrawled in blue paint were found by a Brooklyn woman walking in Prospect Park – a disturbing hate message that comes in a year the city has already notched a shocking increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes.
Shoshana Dornhelm, 32, of Park Slope, told the Daily News she came across the revolting graffiti around 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the heart of the sprawling park, spray-painted on a brick wall beneath a bridge overpass on Center Drive, in the center of the park.
The hate message was gone on Sunday. A spokesman for the NYPD said the incident is being investigated.

On Monday morning, a fire broke out at the Bais Malka giurl school on Malchei Yisrael in Yerushalayim.
At around 4:20 AM, five fire and rescue teams were dispatched for the fire that broke out in the girls’ school. With the help of a rescue and extinguishing crane, the fire fighters gained control of the flames within a short time, and there were no casualties.
In the wake of the fire, an investigation was launched into the circumstances of the outbreak of the fire.  Prelimianry investigations indicate that an electric failure in the air conditioner caused the fire to ignite ad nearly burn down the school building.
{Matzav.com Israel News}

An eruv was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island after backlash from  some of the residents.
The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of chassidm who had newly moved into the area. The eruv was removed after residents opposed to the influx of religious Jews in their neighborhood found out that the eruv was put up without permission from Con Ed, Verizon, or the Transportation Department.
The Orthodox residents have submitted paperwork to the local council to reattach the eruv.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}