Dear Yagilu Parents,
Every night I go to sleep thinking of the safety and well being of our Yagilu campers and staff. And when I wake up each morning, I have their safety still in mind.
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Police say a man has been hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the chest by an officer in the Bronx.
New York City Police say officers had been responding to a report of a man with a gun Sunday afternoon when the shooting occurred.

A trio of police officers paid for an accused shoplifter’s groceries rather than arresting her at a New York City Whole Foods.
Shopper Paul Bozymowski tweeted that the woman was being held by store security at the Union Square Whole Foods on Thursday after she was caught with food in her bag that she hadn’t paid for.

The shocking accident occurred this past Friday in Queens, as NYPD Auxiliary officers were flying down Cypress Ave toward Harman Street in Ridgewood at about 5:00PM.
The patrol car, flying with it’s lights and sirens blaring, barrels through an in intersection with a red light, and gets clipped by a white van traveling down Harman, the video shows.

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life visited the tziyun (Ohel) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Harav Menachem Mendel Schneerson, zt”l, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, commemorating his 25nd yahrtzeit on Shabbos.
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An aging imprisoned mobster wants to avoid dying in prison like his notorious younger brother, the late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, according to court papers seeking an early release.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic petira of 11-year-old Chaim Binyomin Biegeleisen Z”L, who was the victim of a hit-and-run on Golda Meir Blvd. in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood during Chol Hamoed Pesach.

Federal prosecutors want to recover $12.6 billion in drug money they say was generated by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn asked a judge Friday to order Joaquin Guzman (hwah-KEEN’ goos-MAHN’) to forfeit that massive sum.
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Police say an undercover officer is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in the groin inside a New York City public housing building.
It happened just after 8 p.m.
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An elderly Holocaust survivor delivered a short but moving few words while standing in front of the vintage German train car – currently on display in NYC – used to transport men, women and children to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.