The NY State Police tells YWN that the tragedy which took the life of a young Kiryas Joel child was an accident. As YWN reported on Sunday, 6-year-old Efrayim Yaakov Lebowitz z”l was struck and killed by a school bus. The State Police investigation revealed that at approximately 11:01 A.M., a school bus from EMESS Transportation was traveling northeast on Seven Springs Mountain Road when a 6-year-old child ran into the roadway in front of the bus at which time he was struck. The vehicle continued to travel on, and the child was deceased at the scene. The bus and the bus driver returned to the scene a short time later. The operator was not impaired and at this point the accident appears to be non-criminal in nature. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Following the New York Times’ and Washington Post’s recent diatribes against Jews, it is only fitting that Google, the world’s largest search engine, joins the fray, becoming just the latest in a long string of companies mainstreaming antisemitism. When searching the “Jew definition” on Google, one could reasonably expect to get a definition describing someone from the Jewish people. But that’s not what happens. Instead, the top result is to “bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way” – an infamous antisemitic trope implying that Jews are petty and cheap. To see the actual definition of “Jew,” one has to click on “Translations and more definitions” – it doesn’t even show up without taking the extra step.

In shockingly disgraceful conduct and due to its own error, a Moldovan airline on Sunday removed all the passengers, mostly frum Jews, from a flight to Israel and forcibly expelled them from the airport. The incident occurred due to an error by Air Moldova, which registered two passengers with the same name as one person. As a result, when the passengers boarded the plane, one was left without a seat. Arguments began and in the ensuing chaos, the pilot decided he was quitting and canceled the flight. At that point, all the passengers, most of them Israelis who had spent Shabbos Chanukah in Uman, were removed from the flight and then expelled from the airport. One of the passengers told B’Chadrei Chareidim: “They treated us like dogs.

The Shin Bet and Israel Police said they have apprehended an Arab Israeli affiliated with ISIS who set off two bombs at bus stops in Yerushalayim just over a month ago, killing 2 and injuring two dozen. The Shin Bet said Eslam Froukh, Israeli resident of Kafr ‘Aqab in East Jerusalem who lived much of the time in the Ramallah area, created and planted both bombs himself and acted alone. Security officials said Froukh, a mechanical engineer, used guidebooks on the internet to learn how to make the bombs. He planned to detonate another bomb as emergency personnel treated victims at the second bombing but ran into technical issues, they added.

A couple’s journey from Niagara Falls to Monsey following a peaceful Shabbos Chanukah quickly turned into a nightmare when the family along with their 3-month-old son became trapped in snow on a highway near Buffalo. Stuck in a deep snowdrift with no escape route in sight, the worried couple called 911 for assistance. But after an extensive wait, it was clear that help wasn’t on the way. So the couple did what they could: they phoned Chaverim of Rockland County and explained their concerning predicament. Chaverim immediately sprang into action, contacting New York State Police and local law enforcement to urge the rescue of the family, stressing that the young child was in serious danger due to the cold.

The video in which a secular lady in Ramat Gan spewed vitriol at a Chareidi teacher and her students created a stir in Israel as a symbol of incitement against Chareidim. The Chareidi teacher who was with the girls in the park said that the woman’s hateful rhetoric was even worse than what was heard in the video. “We asked to have a field day for the 7th graders in the Maron Neve Park on the border of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan,” the teacher said in an interview with the B’Kehilla magazine. “The school’s trip coordinator called the Ramat Gan municipality and asked for permission to come to the park with 150 girls, and indeed the municipality approved our request but asked that we split into small groups to mitigate the noise of 150 girls in one group.” “So we did just that.

Who should be featured in the photos of an article concerning vaccine hesitancy in Columbus, Ohio? Probably people from that city, right? Wrong. At least according to the Washington Post. An article about vaccine hesitancy published on the left-leaning news outlet’s website on Monday featured multiple pictures of chasidim in New York – despite chasidim not being the subject of the article. The hatred of the New York Times toward Orthodox Jews is well known; the Washington Post’s not as much. But clearly they’re peas of the same pod and grab every opportunity to insert Orthodox Jews into negative stories, painting the entire community as a stain on American society. Shame on the Washington Post for joining the New York Times in its sheer despise for religious Jews.

Jared and Ivanka Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law and daughter of Donald Trump, are keeping their distance from the former president and refusing to help him after he dined with antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. Trump has come under withering criticism for his inexplicable meeting with the pair of Jew haters and while Jared and Ivanka would usually be of assistance to weather PR crises, they are declining to do so now. According to a report from New York Magazine, Trump advisors frantically called Jared Kusher for help and public support after the former president’s meeting with the antisemitic rapper and Holocaust denier, but Kushner wouldn’t do anything besides tell them to contact Trump directly. “He was like, ‘Look, I’m out.

Two yeshiva bochurim were tragically killed in a horrific car crash on Route 6 as they returned from the tziyon of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron overnight Sunday. The two bochurim were traveling in a vehicle along with four others when the driver lost control and crashed into a guardrail, causing severe injuries to all the passengers, including one who was ejected from the car. Paramedics who rushed to the scene attempted resuscitation efforts on the two most critically injured victims, aged 14 and 17, but were sadly unsuccessful. The niftarim were later identified as Nosson Neta Rosenbaum, z’l, 17, a talmid of Yeshivas Toras Chaim Belz in Elad and a resident of Bnei Brak, and Chaim Werthheimer, z’l, 14, a talmid of Yeshivas Machnovka Belz in Elad and resident of Elad.

Arab influencer Loay Alshareef highlighted anti-Semitic Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s hypocrisy in a tweet in which she wished a “Happy Hanukkah to the Jewish community in Minnesota and around the world!” “So, you’re celebrating the revolution led by Yehudah the Maccabee against the Seleucids in ancient Israel, but you question Israel’s legitimacy?” Alshareef wrote. “Good luck lol.” Omar, who has made numerous blatantly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements, also exposed her hypocrisy with her recent trip to Qatar for the Word Cup, despite the Persian Gulf country’s dismal human rights record, something she regularly accuses Israel of.