Fire crews were called to the scene of a blaze at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at 2317 Vermont street at 2:45 Wendsday morning. Firefighters vented the roof after finding flames coming from a second floor attic. It took crews about 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze that left “extensive damage” according to officials. The Chabad Center is led by Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Wilhelm, who said that thankfully, no one was in the building at the time the fire broke out, and that the Torah scrolls had been removed from the building a few months back due to COVID closure, according to ColLive.com This incident comes following another fire that was reported at around 10:30 on Friday night.

A Jewish mother and her 6 children flying from Orlando to Newark Airport were thrown off the plane over a mask issue involving a toddler. The father tells YWN that the mom and 5 of the children were all masked-up as they headed home to Flatbush, Brooklyn, but their youngest child – two years old, was not wearing a mask. A flight attendant requested that the child wear a mask, but the mother explained that there is no way the child will wear one. More importantly, the mother also explained to the flight attendant that according to the JetBlue policy, her child was not even required to wear a mask.

Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on a frequent and distorted point made widely by Democrats. She’s right that Trump’s now-suspended policy at the U.S.-Mexico border separated thousands of children from their families in ways that had not been done before. But what she did not say is that the very same “cages” were built and used in her husband’s administration, for the same purpose of holding migrant kids temporarily.

Chris Christie ripped former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) for endorsing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention late Monday, with the former New Jersey governor calling his fellow Republican a “backstabber” and saying it was “exhausting” to work with him. “Just to show you where John Kasich’s standing is in the Republican Party … when he was the only Republican governor left on the stage in [the 2016 GOP primary] — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, [were] the three candidates left — do you know how many Republicans governors, of his colleagues, his sitting colleagues, endorsed John Kasich? Zero,” Christie said.

The Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu, spoke about the historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates during his shiur. “We need to view the peace agreement that the UAE signed with a broad outlook,” said HaRav Eliyahu. “This is a nevuah being fulfilled. Suddenly the majority of the countries of the world are seeking a relationship with us. More precisely, 85% of the countries of the world maintain diplomatic ties with Israel and another 5% have open ties with us and are on the way to forming diplomatic ties.” “Everyone knows that the state of Israel is a state of bracha. Everyone knows that a relationship with Israel brings bracha from a security standpoint, an economic standpoint, an agricultural standpoint, and a technological standpoint.

Thousands of Chasidic Jews streamed into Kiryas Joel Yesterday Sunday August 16 2020, for the 41st Yartzheitof the Satmar Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar village in Orange County. Thousand visit the Kever each year on his Yartzheit. The Rebbe was Niftar at the age of 92 in 1979, two years after Kiryas Joel was created. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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An Israeli Border Police Officer was stabbed in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s old City on Monday evening. Police say it happened near the Lions’ Gate. Magen David Adom say the border guard, 19, sustained a number of stab wounds and was taken in moderate, stable condition to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for treatment. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yechiel Stern, who was among the first responders at the scene of the incident relayed: “The young man was suffering from a stab wound. Together with other EMS personnel at the scene, I treated him for his injuries, after which he was transported to Shaare Zedek Medical Center for further treatment and care.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a White House senior adviser, said he has “no fear” about sending his own children back to school for in-person learning for the upcoming academic year, even as the coronavirus has forced students and staff in some school districts already back in session into quarantine. “This virus impacts people in different ways,” Kushner said in an interview with “Face the Nation.” “We know a lot more now than we did, and assuming — our school is not opening up five days a week, I wish they were — but we absolutely will be sending our kids back to school, and I have no fear in doing so.” Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, send their children to a Jewish day school in Washington, according to the New York Times.

Bernie Sanders’ interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper gets interrupted by a phone call. Multiple times. Watch below:
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A stolen SUV crashed into an MTA bus, sparking a chain-reaction crash that injured 14 people in Brooklyn Thursday evening, police said. The tan Toyota Highlander slammed into the occupied MTA bus after driving through a stop sign near East 87th Street and Avenue M in Canarsie around 6 p.m., the New York Post reported. Watch the footage below of the accident happen, and then the second video taken at the scene seconds after the crash happened. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)