Authorities in a Boston suburb are investigating a second suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home in less than a week.
Acting Arlington Police Chief Julie Flaherty said officers and firefighters responded to the home at about 9 p.m.
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Police are looking for a man who stole $320,000 in jewelry from a Flatbush home a few weeks ago.
The NYPD tells YWN that on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at approximately 5:30PM, an 83-year-old woman returned to her home in the vicinity of Ave L and East 26th Street and discovered her home was broken into from a side window.

A warehouse worker said he heard the deafening noise of an F-16 jet moments before it smashed through the roof of the building near a Southern California air base.
“Next thing I know I just hear this explosion and turn around to the back of the building, and I just seen a burst of flames and just the ceiling started falling through every part of the building,” Daniel Gallegos told KABC-TV.

A Florida man is charged with spitting on an elderly Jewish couple after threatening to assault another group of Jews.
The Miami Herald reports that 33-year-old Daniel Starikov was arrested Wednesday for the March 22 (Friday night) assaults.

Police in a Boston suburb are investigating the circumstances around a suspicious fire at a rabbi’s home and are looking for someone spotted on a neighbor’s surveillance video.
According to a statement Wednesday, firefighters and police responded to the Arlington home on Lake Street at about 11 p.m.

A large Shabbos rally is planned by the Eida Chareidis this coming Shabbos in protest of the massive Chilul Shabbos expected to take place around the Eurovision Song Contest being hosted in Tel Aviv.
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A couple who have recently moved to a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago has been exposed to be non-Jews posing as Orthodox Jews, with the mission to influence others.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to take on Donald Trump.
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The acting chief of the Federal Aviation Administration defended his agency’s safety certification of the Boeing 737 Max jetliner, the plane involved in two deadly crashes, and the FAA’s decision not to ground the jet until other regulators around the world had already done so.

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita is quoted saying the Eurovision song contest taking place in Tel Aviv poses a “sakona to all of the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael” due to the massive Chilul Shabbos connected to the international event as it will take place this motzei Shabbos.