A New Jersey school district is paying $325,000 to a former New Jersey teacher who claimed she was forced to digitally edit a Donald Trump T-shirt worn by a student in a yearbook photo. The Wall Township school board approved the settlement agreement with Susan Parsons on Tuesday, NJ Advance Media reported. The district made no admission of wrongdoing or liability. The money will be paid by the district’s insurance carrier. Parsons was the high school’s yearbook adviser when she said a secretary acting on behalf of the principal ordered her in 2017 to remove “Trump Make America Great Again” and make it appear as if the student was wearing a plain navy blue T-shirt. “That has to go,” the suit alleged Parsons was told.

Today Andrew Yang, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of New York, released the following statement: “Last night, at a forum, I used a poor choice of words on BDS and it has caused pain to many people. BDS does not recognize the right of Israel to exist. Not recognizing Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitic. I strongly oppose BDS, as I’ve said countless times. I’ll talk to leaders over the coming days before Pesach to make sure they know what’s in my heart. I look forward to traveling to Israel as Mayor and furthering the strong economic ties between Israel and NYC.” Orthodox Jewish NY State Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal also released a statement to YWN. Rosenthal endorsed Yang earlier this week.

Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Squad-Arson Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, Ocean County Fire Marshal’s Office, Lakewood Township Police Department Detective Bureau, and Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, has determined that the wildland fire which occurred in Lakewood Township and advanced into Brick Township on Sunday, March 14, 2021, was intentionally set. “We have located the origin of the fire and have concluded that the fire was intentionally set,” Prosecutor Billhimer stated.

Jackson Township, March 18, 2021: With the State, along with the rest of the Country, doing their best to get life back to normal, CHEMED in Lakewood has taken the extra step to help our community in this process. Jackson resident Mordechai Burnstein, on behalf of Mark Berkowitz, Chief Operating Officer at CHEMED, reached out to Mayor Michael Reina to inform that they would be offering the COVID-19 vaccination to all Jackson Township First Responders, Teachers and Bus Drivers. After making contact with our First Responders and the Board of Education, CHEMED set up a clinic for them to receive these shots yesterday evening.

With former President Donald Trump’s tax returns finally in hand, a team of New York prosecutors led by a newly hired former mob-buster is sending out fresh subpoenas and meeting face-to-face with key witnesses, scrutinizing Trump’s business practices in granular detail. Amid the swirl of activity, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is scheduled Friday to meet again with Trump’s longtime former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, according to a person familiar with the investigation. It would be the eighth time he has spoken with investigators working for District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., dating to Cohen’s time in federal prison for tax evasion and campaign finance violations.

The attached videos are were taken in Boro Park on Thursday, as two veteran MTA bus drivers refused to move for each other – both claiming that they had the “right of way”. It happened on 13th Avenue and 39th Street, just a week before Pesach, as traffic is substantially higher than usual. Two two drivers bickered and yelled at each other, while the entire area turned into gridlock for close to THIRTY MINUTES! The arrogant drivers refused to budge, until stuck motorists managed to convince the drivers to finally move. At one point, one driver yelled at someone taking videos of the incident. The driver then changed his attitude, and asked if the man had taken a nice picture of him. “Send it to Channel 2 News”, the driver said. Well, it’s not CBS, but it’s YWN!

Just a few weeks ago, NYC Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said in a statement to YWN that had “disagreed with Linda Sarsour on many issues including BDS and Israel.” Yang made the statement following a NY Post article which alleged that his campaign manager has ties with notorious Jew-hater Linda Sarsour. But tonight, a video tweeted by Journalist Jacob Kornbluh has Andrew Yang singing a totally different tune, guaranteed to raise eyebrows. Yang was responding to a question about his opposition to BDS in a forum co-hosted by Emgage.

A 3-day sprint is underway in New York to complete a mountain of work in a short time. The mission is to supply food boxes and financial assistance for hundreds of families throughout the Flatbush area, and by the end of the day on Thursday, March 18, the sprint will be completed. Dozens of volunteers from local yeshivas and schools got together with community leaders to help pack boxes filled with Yom Tov food for the Flatbush Community Fund to distribute to 400 families throughout Flatbush. Additionally, the Flatbush Community Fund is sending monetary assistance to over 800 families throughout the neighborhood.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has rolled up his sleeve to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The mayor received the single-dose shot live during his daily press briefing Thursday morning, with his wife by his side. The shot was administered by Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi. “I could barely feel it,” de Blasio said as he joined the more than 3 million New York City residents who have been vaccinated. “That was easy.” The mayor was given his vaccination card and a pin marking the occasion. “It’s a great feeling when you know you’ve been vaccinated and you can protect your loved ones, and your family and your whole community,” de Blasio said. The mayor announced his intention to get the shot earlier this month to help raise public trust in the newly-approved shot.

New York’s Assembly has hired a top Manhattan law firm to assist in its impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, legislative leaders announced Wednesday in a pick that was quickly criticized by at least two women accusing the governor of harassing them. The Manhattan firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which has more than 900 attorneys and offices around the world, will lead the probe, said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Lavine. The attorneys tapped to handle the investigation include Greg Andres, a former federal prosecutor who was on the team, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, that investigated foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election.