Bochurim at Mir Yeshiva on Sunday night arrived at their dormitory building to discover that their rooms had been trashed, Arutz Sheva reported.
Photos of the scene showed personal items thrown on the floor, broken drawers, and general chaos.
One of the students told the site that up to 3000 NIS ($829) in cash had been stolen.
Israel Police officers arriving at the scene opened an investigation into the incident.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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On Monday morning, the United Nations Security Council held a special session on the Middle East, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
At the request of Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, the Council opened the debate with a moment of silence in memory of Lori Kaye, who was murdered at the San Diego shul shooting.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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President Donald Trump on Monday heaped praise on Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the Chabad rabbi hit by a shooting attack on Shabbos, following a phone call in which the President offered his condolences for the death of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, a veteran member of the community.
“I spoke at length yesterday to Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Chabad of Poway, where I extended my warmest condolences to him and all affected by the shooting in California,” the president tweeted Monday. “What a great guy. He had a least one finger blown off, and all he wanted to do is help others. Very special!”

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The defense team for Rabbi Osher Eiseman has been working on a motion to have the final two charges dismissed. Today, a judge will hear arguments from both sides beginning at 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.
In an interview in the Yated Ne’eman Pesach Edition, Lead attorney Lee Vartan explained the procedures today:

The New York Times said Sunday that an anti-Semitic cartoon which appeared in its international edition this past Thursday was the work of a single editor who was working “without adequate oversight”.
“We have investigated how this happened and learned that, because of a faulty process, a single editor working without adequate oversight downloaded the syndicated cartoon and made the decision to include it on the Opinion page. The matter remains under review, and we are evaluating our internal processes and training. We anticipate significant changes.”
The statement included an apology for the cartoon, which the paper acknowledged was anti-Semitic and “unacceptable”.

By Bret Stephens
 
As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it.
It did so in the form of a cartoon, provided to the newspaper by a wire service and published directly above an unrelated column by Tom Friedman, in which a guide dog with a prideful countenance and the face of Benjamin Netanyahu leads a blind, fat Donald Trump wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke. Lest there be any doubt as to the identity of the dog-man, it wears a collar from which hangs a Star of David.

A passenger on a JetBlue flight stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport tonight at about 9 p.m. was evaluated and cleared following concerns that they were infected with measles, officials said.
The plane was secured at a JFK handstand area after it landed in New York from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, WPIX reported. All customers were cleared and the flight deplaned normally.
Sources indicate that the “concerns” aboard flight 410 from Santo Domingo to JFK were unfounded, and were started after someone alerted flight staff about a child who “appeared to have measles,” when, in fact, the symptoms were nothing more than mosquito bites.
The family in question – the parents and three children – were all vaccinated.

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