Throngs of demonstrators joined by elected officials walked solemnly across the Brooklyn Bridge in a solidarity march Sunday against anti-Semitism and all acts of hate. The “No Hate, No Fear” march was organized by New York’s Jewish community in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including a knife attack at a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City that left five people wounded and a fatal shootout at a kosher grocery in Jersey City, New Jersey. The crowds of participants jammed the streets in lower Manhattan as they waited their turns to get across the bridge. “It is wonderful that we are doing this and sad that we still have to do it,” said Claudia Stoller, 31, of Manhattan.

A deadly crash involving a passenger bus and multiple other vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike left at least five dead and dozens injured early Sunday, shutting down a large portion of the highway. Officials said at least 60 people, ranging in age from 7 to 52 years old, were hospitalized with unknown injuries after the crash that happened at 3:40 a.m. Westmoreland County, around 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh. Photos from the scene show a mangled collision of multiple vehicles including an overturned bus, two tractor-trailers, passenger cars and a smashed FedEx truck that left packages sprawled along the highway. The images appear to show the bus is an Ohio Coach vehicle.

There were additional anti-Semitic incidents in Crown Heights and Flatbush over Shabbos and Sunday morning. Three in Crown Heights and one in Flatbush. The following are what took place: INCIDENT 1: On Shabbos afternoon at around 2:00PM in Crown Heights, a black man walked down New York Ave near Carroll Street and began screaming “Hitler did not kill enough of you in the gas chambers”. INCIDENT 2: CrownHeights.info reports that the same black male suspect got into a verbal altercation with a Jewish man on President Street after demanding the Jewish man move aside for him. As the altercation heated up and the Jew refused to back down, the man allegedly pulled out a knife and threatened the victim.

At the midway point of his annual Christmas vacation, President Donald Trump huddled at his Florida club with his top national security advisers. Days earlier, a rocket attack by an Iranian-funded group struck a U.S.-Iraqi base, killing an American contractor and wounding several others. Trump’s advisers presented him with an array of options for responding, including the most dramatic possible response: taking out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force and the man responsible for hundreds of Americans deaths. Trump immediately wanted to target Soleimani. It was a decision his predecessors had avoided and one that risked inflaming tensions with Tehran.

At least two more anti-Semitic incidents are being investigated. In the first incident, the NYPD says they are looking for a man accused of spitting on a Jewish woman in Queens after trying to enter a yeshiva. Police say the man was denied entry to the Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok school in Far Rockaway on the morning of Dec. 24. When school staff denied him entry, he walked over to a car, spewed anti-Semitic slurs at a mother sitting inside the vehicle and then spat on her through an open window, according to police. The 44-year-old mom was not physically injured. The NYPD released surveillance video of the 20-something-year-old black suspect on Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a blistering statement warning Iran of a large United States response if the Islamic Republic attacks U.S. interests following the killing of Qasem Soleimani. “Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years.

Israel’s Attorney General’s office declared the disgraceful comments of Deputy Mayor of Haifa, Lazer Kaplan to not be considered incitement against the Charedi community. Even the leadership of Yisrael Beiteinu, the party who Lazar is a part of in the city council, decried the comments that were made on Kaplan’s profile on a Russian language […]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. after the airstrike on Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. The Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared […]
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Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Their deaths are […]
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There was another anti-Semitic incident in Boro Park on Thursday, and this one took place just THREE BLOCKS from where Mayor Deblasio was in middle of holding a meeting with Jewish community leaders to discuss the recent hate crimes. The attached video of the incident was provided to YWN by Boro Park Shomrim from inside […]
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