An totally Kosher event with music and Divrei Torah scheduled for Tuesday night in WIlliamsburg was banned at the last minute.
The event was titled “Shirim, V’shiyurim”, and had a lineup of Chassidish singers, top of the line music, as well as Divrei Torah by the world renowned Chassidish speaker, HaRav Avrohom Mordechai Magid.

Don’t skip breakfast.
A new study finds it could increase your risk of heart-related death.
Researchers at the University of Iowa studied 65,000 adults for 12 years.
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An Israeli teenager who fell to his death last year at an iconic waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park was trying to mimic a popular social media photograph when he fell, authorities said.
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A violent arrest in Brooklyn was caught on camera.
Four NYPD officers tried to take down a robbery suspect who fought back, and then got hold of one of their Tasers.
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Members of the New York state Senate are joining the fight to encourage people to get vaccinated amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the state.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-led chamber launched a public awareness campaign on Monday designed to give people accurate information about inoculations and how to get them while dispelling myths that they are unsafe.

The Trump administration is considering suspending or limiting entry to the U.S. for individuals from countries with high rates of short-term visa overstays — a proposal vaguely reminiscent of the controversial travel bans President Donald Trump pursued during his first year in office.
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President Trump declared Tuesday that The New York Times should “get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness” for its negative coverage of his presidency, as part of an early-morning Twitter tear against a range of media outlets.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, a question that could affect how many seats states have in the House of Representatives and their share of federal dollars over the next 10 years.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to Britain in June as a guest of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
The palace said Trump and his wife, Melania, had accepted an invitation from the queen for a visit that will take place June 3-5.
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Oil prices remained near six-month highs Tuesday in the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement that it would soon impose sanctions on all buyers of Iranian oil.
On Monday, the Trump administration said it would no longer exempt any countries from U.S.
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