A pickup truck driver was killed and two others injured when a tree suddenly collapsed onto the vehicle on the Palisades Parkway in an incident that left onlookers dumbstruck. The bizarre accident occurred in the Palisades Parkway’s northbound lanes near Exit 16 in Rockland County on Sunday afternoon. The front seat passenger was killed by the falling tree, while the driver was transported by helicopter to Westchester Medical Center and another passenger in the rear seat was taken to a local hospital by ambulance. Chevra Kadisha services were not needed in this tragic incident. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Far-left socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upping her fight against the moderate wing of the Democratic Party ahead of New York’s June 28 primaries, blasting officials who support increased funding for police amid a dramatic rise in crime in the state. AOC’s latest comments came as NYC Mayor Eric Adams campaigned for veteran Democrats in Albany who are facing stiff primary challenges from progressive candidates being supported by AOC. “Sad how many leaders are so committed to the bit of denigrating advocates that they refuse to even consider the possibility that perhaps abandoning youth employment, school funding, housing & community violence interruption to boost already-huge police budgets makes us less safe,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a social media post.

Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted after being closed for several months, contributing to a national shortage. Production for Abbott’s EleCare specialty formula has been suspended, but there is enough supply to meet demand until production is restarted, the company said. Abbott had prioritized ramping up production of the specialty formula for infants with severe food allergies and digestive problems who have few other options for nutrition. Abbott says it needs to assess damage and re-sanitize the factory after severe thunderstorms and heavy rains swept through southwestern Michigan late Monday.

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday complained that “kollelim are sprouting like mushrooms.” In response to a question by a Kikar H’Shabbat reporter about his planned decrees against lomdei Torah, Lieberman said: “There’s a big difference between yeshivot gevohot and kollelim that are sprouting like mushrooms.” “I want to remind you that there was an original agreement between the Chazon Ish and Ben-Gurion regarding ‘Toraso Emunaso’ – they spoke about 400 lomdei Torah. Today there are 160,000 – much more than the Israeli economy can bear. It needs to be put in order.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Nehorai Gal, the son of Reb Boaz Gal, hy’d, who was brutally killed in the Elad terror attack last month, celebrated his bar mitzvah on Monday night. There wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd when Nehorai sang a special song he wrote for his father to the tune of the famed Israeli song Abba by Shlomi Shabbat. The bar mitzvah took place in Petach Tikvah with the participation of among others, the Rav of Elad HaRav Mordechai Malka, famed Mezake HaRabim, HaGaon HaRav Yigael Cohen, and Elad Mayor Yisrael Porush. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States hit a new record high on Tuesday at $4.62 a gallon, according to data compiled by the American Automobile Association (AAA). That’s up from $4.178 a month ago and around 52% higher than a year ago. President Biden has promised to do everything in his power to lower the price of car food, including by releasing millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Still, the price of liquid gold has continued its inexorable rise. The state where gas is most expensive is California, with averages prices now topping $6 a gallon – the first time ever that benchmark has been reached. As of Sunday, Californians were paying on average $6.139 per gallon.

Hundreds of Jews in Israel from Iran underwent a second bris milah according to the p’sak of HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Machpud, Kol B’Rama Radio reported. It was recently discovered in Israel that the brissim carried out for many Jews from the city of Shiraz and other areas were not performed according to halacha, said Rav Aryeh Amit, a mohel who works for the organization Bris Yosef Yitzchak, an international non-profit organization that provides a free bris milah for any Jew worldwide. HaRav Machpud paskened that the Jews had to undergo a second bris milah and 711 Iranian Jews eventually underwent the procedure. Radio host Avi Maimon spoke about the issue and HaRav Machpud’s p’sak on Kol B’Rama Radio.

Numerous viral messages have been going around Monsey / Rockland County about an alleged armed man in a vehicle frightening many people. Even worse, multiple schools sent irresponsible messages to their parent body frightening parents. Not ONE bothered to verify anything. Monsey Scoop reports that they have spoken with Chaveirim Coordinator Yossi Margareten who confirmed with Ramapo Police that there is no threat whatsoever, and people should stop forwarding fake news. One example of an irresponsible message sent today by a Yeshiva in Rockland County. THIS STORY WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON THE MONSEY SCOOP STATUS CLICK HERE SIGN UP TO THE MONSEY SCOOP WHATSAPP STATUS TO BE INFORMED OF MONSEY NEWS IN LIVE TIME (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A Central Jersey (Lakewood) Hatzolah member from Jackson is being hailed a hero after coming to the assistance of a seizure-stricken passenger aboard a flight. On a packed flight from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Newark, a passenger was suddenly struck by three consecutive violent seizures as the plane prepared for departure. Amid the commotion, Central Jersey Hatzolah’s Yosef Reiner sprang into action. He rushed to the patient’s assistance, working to stabilize her for more than half an hour as the pilots attempted to get back to a gate. Once the plane was able to return to its gate, local paramedics were brought onboard and transported the patient to the hospital.

New proposed State regulations completely negate any value of limudei kodesh, and open the door to the imposition of curricular requirements that are antithetical to Torah morals. They empower local boards to evaluate our staff and our curricula, and the projected protocols demand of school boards to direct yeshiva parents to remove their children from schools determined to be substantially inequivalent. Only the voice of the entire Torah-population in the United States, rising in strong protest during this comment period, can quell the looming decree, a projected declaration whose threat and menace border on that of a gezeiras shmad R”L.