A Sukkos concert in Yerushalayim is causing outrage among many people.
At the concert a popular song titled “Reb Shaya ben Reb Moshe” was sung by a popular performer.
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A frantic search was underway for a missing 8-year-old boy at a lake near Monsey.
Sources tell YWN that the family of 7 were on a boat in Haverstraw Bay Park, when it overturned for reasons unknown.

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Watch the TSA employee at JFK Airport explain the Jews going through security that their Esrogim must have a “certificate” on it in order to be allowed through.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Israel’s prime minister on Friday to reaffirm the countries’ close ties at a time when many in Israel fear the Trump administration intends to cut and run from the Middle East.
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With three polls showing her in the lead, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., may soon eclipse former Vice President Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. That’s great news for Republicans, because Warren has a problem: The central message of her campaign is that the economy is working for the very wealthy but it is not working for ordinary Americans.

YWN was asked to publish the following message by the Portnoy family:
“Avraham Yirmiyahu ben Chaya Toba” was Bichasdei Hashem released from the hospital on Sunday evening – just before the beginning of Yom Tov.

A man has been shot to death by a police officer in New York City for the second time in three days.
Police say the latest shooting happened Thursday during a traffic stop in the Bronx.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful House Democrat who represented Baltimore for more than two decades and was a vocal critic of President Trump, died early Thursday after battling health problems.
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He said she’s a “third-grade” politician. She said he’s having a meltdown.
And with that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chalked up the latest explosive meeting that ended abruptly with a walkout at the White House.

Tens of thousands of mispallalim took part in Birchas Kohanim at the Kosel on Wednesday, as it is always held on the morning of the second day of chol hamoed in Eretz Yisrael to permit persons visiting from abroad to take part.
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