(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
There is a well-known dispute going on regarding the future status of one of the oldest shuls in Boro Park. The shul is known as Anshei Lubawitz, located at 4024 12th Avenue in Boro Park.

A joyful trip to Israel for Pesach has turned to heartbreaking tragedy for a family from Monsey, New York. 3-year-old Baruch Eisenberg was struck and killed by a bus in Beitar Illit on Monday evening, Chol Hamoed.
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Outbreaks in New York state continue to drive up the number of U.S. measles cases, which are approaching levels not seen in 25 years.
Health officials say 71 more cases were reported last week, with 68 of them from New York.
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Residents of a small town in southeastern Poland marked a Christian holiday on Friday by making a large doll resembling a Hasidic Jew, hanging it, beating it up and then burning it.
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A comedian whose only political experience consists of playing a president on TV cruised toward a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election Sunday in what was seen as a reaction against the country’s entrenched corruption and low standard of living.

Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago.

The Kaliver Rebbe Shlita has been showing signs if increased weakness over the past two weeks, preventing the rebbe from attending Yomtov tefilos in his beis medrash.
There is much concern among chassidim and others, as it is reported the rebbe fell at home two weeks ago, and his condition has deteriorated since; preventing him from bearing weight on the injured leg.

It was a horrific scene in Moscow on Erev Pesach, as talmidim at Yeshiva Toras Chaim awoke to find devastation from an apparent arson fire.
The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Lebel, told the media there were 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time of the arson.

A 10-year-old boy in Israel is in critical condition after he contracted the measles
The young boy was hospitalized at Schneider Medical Center in Petah Tikva is attached to a ventilator.
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