A Boro Park yungerman made a tremendous kiddush hashem this week when he returned money inadvertently given to him by employees of Chase Bank. YWN has learned through a third party that the story occurred on Monday, when a kollel yungerman withdrew $5,000 in cash at the Chase Bank branch at 13th Avenue and 48th Street in Boro Park. Upon returning home, the man counted up the bills and quickly realized that he had been handed $6,000 – not the $5,000 he has withdrawn. He checked the receipt which confirmed that he had only taken our $5,000 from his account. The next morning, the Jewish man returned to the bank, handing a teller $1,000 in cash, explaining that he had been given more money than he had withdrawn. The bank employees were stunned.

The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams, which he said should foster a spirit of inclusivity. Under the new rules, Adams said, mosques will not need a special permit to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, on Fridays and at sundown during the month of Ramadan. Friday is the traditional Islamic holy day, and Muslims break their fast at sunset during Ramadan. The police department’s community affairs bureau will work with mosques to communicate the new guidelines and ensure that devices used to broadcast the adhan are set to appropriate decibel levels, Adams said. Houses of worship can broadcast up to 10 decibels over the ambient sound level, the mayor’s office said.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s west coast as a dangerous Category 3 storm on Wednesday, threatening to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia came ashore in the lightly populated Big Bend region, where the Florida Panhandle curves into the peninsula. The result could be a big blow to a state still dealing with lingering damage from last year’s Hurricane Ian. The National Weather Service in Tallahassee called Idalia “an unprecedented event” since no major hurricanes on record have ever passed through the bay abutting the Big Bend. Florida Gov.

An attempted ramming attack took place on Wednesday morning at a military position near the yishuv of Beit Chagai, near Chevron. A terrorist accelerated toward soldiers standing at a checkpoint. Fortunately, they reacted in time, opening fire at the driver and neutralizing him. B’Chasdei Hashem, there were no major injuries among Israeli security forces, with only one soldier suffering a minor injury. He received emergency medical aid at the scene and was evacuated to the hospital for further treatment. The terrorist was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in a military intensive care unit.

In a new verbal barrage targeting President Joe Biden and others, former President Donald Trump delivered a stark warning to “be careful what you wish for” in relation to his ongoing criminal and civil trials. The focal point of Trump’s ire is Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision regarding the trial date for the case involving Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. Special Counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s legal team held opposing views on the trial date.

As the impending trial on charges of obstructing the 2020 election looms for former President Donald Trump, his legal team appears to be considering a high-stakes maneuver to delay or potentially circumvent the proceedings: initiating a consequential battle for presidential immunity before the United States Supreme Court. Traditionally, US presidents enjoy protection from a majority of lawsuits. However, in a precedent-setting twist, Trump’s previous attempt to invoke immunity in a civil case linked to the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol was unsuccessful.

The anarchists protesting against the government love to engage in extremist rhetoric about the “destruction of democracy,” “the end of the State of Israel,” and other fearmongering statements, and regularly compare Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to dictators such as Stalin and Kim Jong Un. Ex-prime minister Ehud Barak raised the bar recently by sharing a video comparing Netanyahu to Hitler. But apparently, Barak is not the only leftist brazen enough to make such radical comparisons. On Monday, educators at Tel Aviv University held a protest against Education Minister Yoav Kisch (Likud).

An Air Seychelles flight on the way to Israel on Monday evening was forced to make an unscheduling landing on Monday night at the Jeddah airport in Saudi Arabia due to a technical malfunction. According to a Saudi news report on Tuesday morning, the pilots notified the control tower at the King Abdulaziz International Airport about a distress call due to the smell of smoke in the cockpit. Air officials at the airport prepared for a possible emergency landing but fortunately, the plane landed safely. One of the passengers later told Kan News that the passengers, including 128 Israelis, were stuck on the plane without electricity or functioning bathrooms for three hours after it landed.

A disturbing trend of flash mob-style robberies targeting retailers in California has struck again, this time at a Macy’s store in Los Angeles. Startling video footage captured the audacious theft, adding to a growing list of smash-and-grab incidents that have left authorities and residents concerned. The latest incident unfolded at a Macy’s in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, where a group of masked thieves described as being in their early 20s entered the department store shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Surveillance video shows them swiftly emptying shelves of merchandise into their bags as stunned shoppers look on in disbelief. The robbers then fled the scene, leaving behind some of the stolen items on the ground.

Joshua Padilla, a serial offender with an extensive rap sheet of more than 200 arrests and ongoing criminal cases across four New York City boroughs, managed to escape incarceration once again, leading law enforcement on a dangerous stolen car chase that left two officers injured. Despite facing over half a dozen criminal cases and being on parole following a three-year prison sentence for grand larceny, Padilla was able to evade jail time, prompting law enforcement to dub him “Teflon” due to his ability to escape legal consequences. Described by a source as “human carnage on wheels,” Padilla’s streak of luck finally ran out when he was arrested after a chaotic driving spree.