YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Rav Hillel Mandel, a well-known Mechanech for the past 30 years. He was 62.
Rav Mandel currently lived in Chicago, where he served as the Menahel of the Veitzner Yeshiva.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York officials that was aimed at preventing the release of his tax returns.
Judge Carl Nichols handed down a 19-page ruling, finding the U.S.
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The first snow of the season may actually arrive Tuesday as some cold rain looks to transition into snow.
While the snow should not amount to much more than a coating in the city, areas to the far north and west in the higher elevations could get an inch or two.

A Jewish man is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed in what appears to have been an attempted robbery in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Sources tell YWN that the incident happened on Monday just after 1:00PM, when the victim – who is a contractor – received a phone call from a woman calling for an estimate on a construction job at Jarvis Avenue & Beach 7th Street.

The mother of children targeted in a one of a series of egg attacks on Jewish targets over the weekend in Brooklyn is speaking out.
Police said a synagogue was vandalized with eggs around 6 p.m.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the powerful 14-term congressman who once chaired the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2020.
King, in a statement Monday, said his “prime reason” for retiring “was that after 28 years of spending four days a week in Washington, D.C., it is time to end the weekly commute and be home in Seaford.”
“This was not an easy decision.

Rabbi Hershel Weber, founder of Chevra Hatzolah was honored by original members of Hatzolah who came together at a Melava Malaka to honor their mentor and good friend.
Rabbi Weber started Hatzalah Volunteers corp.

Several Boro Park locations were targeted in a Motzei Shabbos “egging spree,” the latest in a string of hate crimes targeting Hasidic Jews.
Boro Park Shomrim tweeted “Shomrim volunteers and police are on scene investigating the egging of a shul on Dahill Road.”
The on Dahill Rd area that were egged include a Shul, girls school, bus, and multiple residences, the report said.

Two windows on the Brooklyn Ave side of the Bais Rivkah building on Lefferts Ave were vandalized Friday night by a gun wielding vandal.
Surveillance footage obtained by Crown Heights Shomrim shows the man at around 8:10pm Friday evening as he walks down Brooklyn Ave and stops at the two windows.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R’ Dovid Gluck Z”L, a Paramedic with Monsey Hatzolah. He was 59.
The Niftar, known in Hatzolah as “RH-22”, was unfortunately sick for quite a few years, and despite his illness remained active as a Hatzolah member, responding to many emergencies and saving countless lives.