A civil rights lawyer representing parents opposed to vaccines for their children said Monday he will appeal a judge’s decision upholding a New York state law that ended religious exemptions from vaccinations required to attend schools and day care programs.
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Two Muslim correctional officers in New York are being reinstated to their positions after being suspended for refusing to shave their beards.
The move comes one day after correctional officers Brian Sughrim and David Feliciano filed a federal lawsuit Monday against New York’s prison agency.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Binyomin Asher Brief of Bnai Brak. He was 21.
Binyomin battled cancer for the past three years until his Petira on Tuesday.
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Members of Eric Garner’s family want a court to force New York City’s mayor and police commissioner to answer questions under oath about their relative’s 2014 chokehold death.
A petition being filed Tuesday in state court seeks a proceeding at which city officials can be questioned under penalty of perjury about matters involving alleged official misconduct.

In a strongly worded letter addressed to New York State Board of Regents’ Chancellor Betty Rosa, over 200 rabbanim from around the country registered a protest to the regulations proposed by the education department.

Police are investigation a brutal attack on an elderly Jewish man in Crown Heights, Tuesday morning.
The attack happened at around 8:00AM, in the “Rochester Park”.
According to initial information available, the man, in his mid-sixties, was doing exercise while walking through the park, when he was attacked by a man with a brick or rocks.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R Dovid Noraly, Z”L, a well-known resident in Boro Park. He was 67.
R’ Dovid would be seen collecting Tzedaka at various locations in the neighborhood, and was a known in many Shuls.
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Rockland County Legislature Aron Wieder called out an anti-Semite to his face last week, and the video has since gone viral.
YWN spoke to Wieder who tells us that he was attending a press conference from YAFFED where an individual named Michael Hull attended.

Overdose deaths in New York City declined slightly last year after years of alarming increases, health officials say.
There were 1,444 fatal overdoses citywide last year, down 2.6% from 2017, according to data the city Health Department is releasing Monday.
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Only six frum Jews made the cut on “City & State’s” Power 100 list of the one hundred most powerful and influential residents of Brooklyn’s 2.65 million people in the annual City & State list published this week.