Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, the largest yeshiva in the world unfortunately fell behind six months in paying its yungeleit. Despite tireless efforts, the yeshiva could not have foreseen this for multiple reasons, the biggest factor being the change in the value of the shekel against the dollar.

Just 24 hours after a Holocaust survivor found a swastika drawn in the lobby of her Boro Park building, more hate was directed towards Jews.
The car belonging to a Williamsburg Hatzolah Volunteer was defaced with a Nazi swastika in front of ‘Perfect Health Medical Center’ on 18th Avenue and 45th Street.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday announced that 14 Israelis will be spending Rosh Hashanah in a jail for smuggling the khat plant, regarded as an illegal drug in Europe, to a European country.

[By M. C. Millman For Monsey Hamevaser]

A policewoman was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist near Shar HaShalshelet of Jerusalem’s Old City a short time ago, one of the entrances to Har Habayis. The attacker is in custody.
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The New York City Police Department tells YWN that they are looking for two men in regards to a shooting last week which ended up with bullets striking a Jewish-owned vehicle.
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The NYPD and Boro Park Shomrim were on the scene investigating a hate crime in the heart of Boro Park’s Orthodox Jewish community.
Swastikas were found inside a residential building on 44 Street between 15th and 15th Avenues on Wednesday Afternoon.

The office of Israel’s president says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the difficult task of forming a new government.
Wednesday’s decision came after President Reuven Rivlin’s attempts to broker a unity government between Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, failed.
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A 42-year-old Bnei Brak woman was violently arrest all because of “jaywalking” on HaShomer Street in Bnei Brak.
According to multiple reports, a female police officer asked her to identify herself, the woman refused and began to run away from the officer.

A senior Trump administration official told Fox News late Tuesday that the administration will release a document showing the intelligence community inspector general found the whistleblower who leveled an explosive accusation against President Trump concerning his talks with Ukraine had “political bias” in favor of “a rival candidate” of the president.