A husband and wife and their two sons, ages 10 and 12, were found dead in a suburban New York home Saturday in what authorities described as a murder-suicide by a police sergeant.

The front entrance of Rep. Mike Lawler’s district office building in Pearl River, NY, was found defaced on Thursday morning with messages attacking him for his unabashed pro-Israel stance as the IDF fights to eradicate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the Monsey Scoop reported.

House Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to Westchester County, NY, on Sunday to attend a pair of fundraisers for Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17), who is up for reelection in 2024.

The Ramapo Police Department has made significant progress in a hate crime case involving the desecration of an Israeli flag.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a consent decree has been agreed upon with the Village of Airmont, New York, thereby ending a lawsuit filed by Orthodox Jewish residents and synagogues alleging religious discrimination against the village. Agudath Israel of America is hailing the agreement.

In a shocking display of antisemitism, a group of Palestinians dressed up as Orthodox Jews and demonstrated on a street corner in Monsey on Sunday, protesting Israel and expressing their fervent support for Hamas.

The Monsey Fire Department deployed numerous resources on Monday – but not for a fire. Instead, the response was for an intentional spill of foul-smelling sludge at the site of the planned Chabad Simchas Bais HaShoeiva at Monsey’s Park & Ride. The culprits? The notorious malcontents from the extremist “Neturei Karta” sect, who annually protest Chabad’s simchas bais hashoeiva at the site. As first reported by Monsey Scoop, Neturei Karta attempted to sabotage the event this year by spilling odorous chemicals at the Park & Ride, making the area unusable. Thankfully, despite Neturei Karta’s sickening move, the event will go on, thanks to the Monsey Fire Department and Town of Ramapo Highway Department.

A 7 year old child is fighting for his life after he was pulled from Lake Suzanne in Monsey, early Shabbos afternoon. Monsey Scoop is reporting, that two children were playing near the lake, when one child fell in and was unable to swim to safety. The other child ran to get assistance. Rockland Hatzolah, Chaverim Of Rockland, Monsey Fire Department, and other emergency personnel rushed to the scene and managed to pull the child out of the lake. Unfortunately, the child was underwater for quite sometime. He was rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Over Yom Tov, he was transferred to Westchester County Medical Center. Please say Tehillim for Eliezer Ben Chaya Hinda.

Tragedy has struck the Monsey community with the heartbreaking Petira of Reb Hershy Gross Z”L on Wednesday morning, two days after collapsing in Ben-Gurion Airport upon his arrival in the country. The niftar, Reb Avraham Tzvi (Hershey), z’l, 39, had traveled to Israel with his wife to spend the month of Tishrei in their apartment in Jerusalem. They had arrived at the airport on Monday and were standing in line to rent a car when he collapsed and lost consciousness. Hatzalah and MDA paramedics rushed to the scene and carried out resuscitation techniques, continuing them as they evacuated him in an ECMO mobile intensive care unit to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital near Tel Aviv. Sadly, despite the best efforts of the medical staff, his death was pronounced on Wednesday morning.

As the Monsey community continues to see explosive growth and expanding into neighboring towns, Chaverim Of Rockland is doing the same. Chaverim, the organization that has become the backbone of the Monsey community, has taken in another 19 volunteers on Sunday. Some of the new members reside in the new the communities of Haverstraw, Chestnut Ridge (on the New Jersey border), Airmont, Pomona, New City, Stony Point and other locations. Chaverim Of Rockland now has 175 volunteers responding to emergency calls 24 hours a day, with an additional 25 dispatchers covering shifts 24 hours a day. Chaverim Of Rockland responded to a whopping 44,696 (yes, FORTY FOUR THOUSAND!) calls in year 2022! (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)