EL AL Flight Attendant in Coma After Getting MeaslesThe following is via CNN: 
An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials.
The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus.

BPJCC Along With Met Council Feeds Over 1,000 Boro Park Families [PHOTOS]This year’s Boro Park Pesach food distribution event benefited more than 1,000 needy families equal to more than 6,500 vulnerable and insecure individuals. The Boro Park participants were supplied with Passover staple food items during the annual holiday food distribution organized by the Boro Park JCC in partnership with Met Council.

 Otisville Prison Being Reopened To Visitors Following Measles IncidentInmates at the Otisville Correctional Facility in Upstate NY received some good news today, that the prison will once again allow visitors this Friday – just in time for Pesach.
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 Pedestrian Struck In Boro Park In Traumatic ArrestA person is fighting for his life after being struck by a vehicle in Boro Park, Wednesday afternoon.
It happened at around 5:30PM at 17 Avenue and 47 Street, when an approximately 25-year-old male riding a bicycle was struck by a truck.
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London Bain Hazmanim Kumzits Attended By Hundreds [VIDEO & PHOTOS]The much anticipated Pre-Pesach Kumzits for Men, Bochirm and boys took place once again last Wednesday evening. This year was the seventh annual event. The organiser Duddy Iczkovits of Duddy’s Events was only persuaded to make the evening a short time before, just as the bochurim were returning home from Yeshivah.

 Rockland County BANS Unvaccinated People From Public Places For 21 DaysOfficials trying to contain a measles outbreak in a county north of New York City on Tuesday ordered all unvaccinated people exposed to the disease barred from public gathering places, including houses of worship, for up to three weeks.

New York State Assemblymembers Visit Culver El Housing ProjectNew York State Assemblymembers Steve Cymbrowitz, Chair of the Assembly Housing Committee and Simcha Eichenstein, a member of the committee, visited the site of the Culver El Housing project on 37th Street in Boro Park this week.
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SHTREIMEL BAN IN NYC? Fashion Capital New York Considers Banning Sale Of FurA burgeoning movement to outlaw fur is seeking to make its biggest statement yet in the fashion mecca of New York City.
Lawmakers are pushing a measure that would ban the sale of all new fur products in the city where such garments were once common and style-setters have all rocked furs over the years.

NJ Governor Phil Murphy Welcomes Jewish Leaders Ahead Of Pesach [VIDEO & PHOTOS]NJ Governor Phil Murphy welcomed Jewish community activists to Trenton on Tuesday, just days before Pesach. The group expressed their appreciation to the Governor for his unwavering support of Jewish communities statewide.

 The Fifty Suspended Bochrim Allowed Back Into Mesivta In Lakewood [SEE THE VIDEO]The Mesivta in Lakewood that suspended approximately 50 Bochrim for attending the Skulener Rebbes Levaya have Boruch Hashem been allowed back into Yeshiva.
The attached video shows the Bochrim listening to a Shiur by their Magid Shiur, HaRav Michel Handlesman.

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