Chaverim of Rockland is being credited with saving more than 20 people from 5 separate families who became trapped in rising floodwaters while traveling near Monsey during a torrential downpour. The dramatic scene unfolded on Sunday afternoon, when Chaverim was called in by Rockland EMS for assistance with hikers, some of them injured, who had become trapped on Bear Mountain. As its members were en route to assist with rescuing them, Chaverim began receiving frantic calls from numerous people begging for assistance on Seven Lakes Drive, which was completely flooded. Terrified callers from five separate families described how their vehicles were already submerged and had to be abandoned, and how floodwaters were quickly rising around them, threatening to r”l wash them away.

Parts of the Palisades Interstate Parkway are currently shut due to extreme flooding. Rabbi Berish Freilach, Senior Clergy to the NY State Police confirmed to YWN that the highway is closed in both directions at Exit 15 at around 4:00PM. Tens of thousands of people in the Catskills would normally be using the highway to head towards NYC today, and drivers are being urged to use alternate routes. There are reports of a NY State Trooper vehicle submerged underwater, and additional reports of mud and rock slides in the area of Stony Point. As YWN warned earlier, the entire area remains under a severe flood watch. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish youth affiliated with the Chabad community was stabbed and lightly injured in an antisemitic attack which occurred in Brooklyn Friday night at about 2 AM. The youth was taken to hospital and released a few hours later. The youth, who is Israeli, was asked by the two attackers if […]

An 86-year-old New York City man was fatally shot and at least two others were seriously wounded by a man on a scooter who police say was shooting randomly at cars and pedestrians in Queens on Saturday. A person of interest was in custody, the New York Police Department said. The shootings began just before 11:30 a.m., when the 86-year-old was shot multiple times in the Richmond Hill area. He later died at a hospital. About a mile away and less than 10 minutes later, a 63-year-old man was shot in the shoulder and taken to a nearby hospital, where police said he was listed in serious but stable condition. A few minutes later, the shooter fired at a 61-year-old man, hitting him in the torso. He was in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF Givati commandos and Police Special Forces eliminated two terrorists in the city of Shechem after they perpetra

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the terrorist attack near Kedumim Thursday afternoon, IDF soldier Shilo Yosef Amir (22) was killed.