YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Yochi Rubi Z”L. He was a few weeks shy of his 25th birthday.
Yochi lived in Boro Park and moved to Lakewood a few years ago.
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To better understand who and what the broader Jewish community has been up against in the vaccination civil war against measles, one only had to look at those gathered in the NYS Assembly gallery on Thursday. 
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Hundreds of Monsey Yeshiva students line the streets to pay last respects to the late Monsey Fire Dept Chief Richard Lagarde on Tuesday.
Lagarde served the Monsey community for 47 years.
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In an unprecedented move, Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kaminetzky has joined together with the senior Lakewood Posek and Pediatrician to warn about the dangers of sexual abuse over the summer.
As was done last summer for the first time, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Forscheimer, senior Posek at Lakewood’s Beis Medrash Govoah, Dr.

The State Police in Ellenville are investigating a crash involving two Ulster County Sherrif’s vehicles. The collision occurred on June 11, 2019 at approximately 11 a.m. on Lucas Avenue in the town of Marbletown.
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The Health Department announced today that it has closed two schools in Williamsburg for failing to comply with an Order of the Health Commissioner in response to the current measles outbreak.
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Missionaries are delivering material to homes all around Flatbush on Thursday. Please warn your children, and dispose of this garbage immediately.
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New York lawmakers are poised Thursday to eliminate a religious exemption to vaccine requirements in the face of its worst measles outbreak in decades.
The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly planned to vote on repealing the exemption, which allows parents of children to cite their religious beliefs to opt a child out of the vaccines required for public school enrollment.

A former sergeant on the nation’s largest police force who helped prosecutors build cases against his former colleagues in the biggest scandal to hit the New York Police Department in decades was sentenced to four months in prison Wednesday by a judge who said cooperation was not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

A massive fast-moving four-alarm blaze ripped through three homes in Flatbush, early Thursday morning.
Chief of Fire Operations Thomas Richardson says firefighters were on the scene at 1488 East 17 Street near Avenue N within 5 minutes, and found three homes on fire at 4:05AM.