Bnei Brak resident M.K. has been handed a sentence of four years imprisonment for smuggling seven kilos of cocaine from Amsterdam to Israel. The 23-year-old was given his sentence three years after the incident took place and received an additional 10 months of jail-time on probation and a fine of 10,000 NIS or an additional 45 days of prison instead.

The release Sunday of an audio recording has shed new light on the seizure of a British-flagged tanker at the hands of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as tensions flare in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
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This photo was published on a well-known local Facebook Page in Sullivan County on Sunday. Seen in the photo is a Hasidic man, changing the tire of a man he never met before on what appears to be Route 17 in the Catskills.
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Ex NBA playerLamar Odom, became the latest celebrity to visit the Ohel. Odom shared a personal moment of prayer at the “Ohel” of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Menachem Schneerson ZATZAL in Queens, N.Y.

Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker was a response to Britain’s role in impounding an Iranian supertanker first, senior officials said Saturday, as newly released video of the incident showed Iranian commandos in black ski masks and fatigues rappelling from a helicopter onto the vessel in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

A crash on Route 42 left 6 people with minor injuries, Friday afternoon.
It happened at 3:30PM between the “Four Corners” and South Fallsburg, in front of the Shopron Camp, and involved two vehicles.
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A power outage at a girls camp in the Catskills is sending home their campers, Friday afternoon.
Parents of campers at Camp Chaya Sara on High Road in Glen Spey, NY (Sullivan County), were notified at around 2:30PM of a power outage at the camp.

The worst heat wave of the year has seized the tri-state, threatening three consecutive days of heat in the mid-to-high 90s, though it’ll feel more like a sauna, with stifling humidity making it feel like 104 degrees at a minimum.
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This past Wednesday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the owners of a McDonald’s restaurant near Orlando, claiming managers violated a Hasidic man’s rights.
The EEOC is the Federal agency charged with ensuring that discrimination does not take place in the workplace.

The following is an unedited article via The San Diego Union Tribune:
In a parking lot behind a Pico Boulevard building, inside a makeshift tent of metal poles and tarps, a man in a white coat and black skullcap grabs a white-feathered hen under the wings and performs an ancient ritual.