Tomtom magazine head Mindy Abovitz is hitting back at a male-dominated area of the music industry by spotlighting women percussionists

New York – Wall Street capped a week of milestones by delivering a couple more Friday. A late-afternoon burst of buying lifted the major U.S. stock indexes, which had spent much of the day in a sideways drift. The gains nudged the benchmark S&P 500 index and Nasdaq composite to new closing highs for the [...]

Extremism expert calls attack an 'act of political theater' designed to propagandize white nationalism, as ADL head says anti-Semitism still rising

The victim killed in the Chabad shul shooting has been identified as Lori Gilbert-Kay.
The three injured in Saturday’s shooting are in stable condition, authorities said. Among the injured was Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. In the picture above, the Gilbert-Kay is seen  standing next to the heroic Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured when he tried to stop the gunman.
Sheriff Gore said the rabbi was wounded in the hand and is undergoing surgery.
Minoo Anvari, a member of the congregation, told CNN that “[Goldstein] did not leave his congregation until he was finished speaking to them – calming their fears and pledging resilience.”
Please daven for Yisroel Ben Chana Priva.
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President Trump expressed his condolences for the victims of a shooting at the Chabad shul in Poway, Calif., earlier on Saturday, while praising law enforcement for their response.
Soon after appearing at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Trump addressed the shooting, which resulted in one person killed and several wounded.
“Today America’s heart is with the victims of the horrific synagogue shooting in Poway, California,” Trump told supporters

The New York Times has apologized for an anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared in the newspaper’s international edition.
It showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachshund wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind and skullcap-wearing U.S.
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Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard successfully managed a surveillance flight over a U.S. aircraft carrier, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday.
The report included footage apparently from a Guard drone that flew over the USS Dwight D.
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Los Angeles – More than 1,000 students and staff members at two Los Angeles universities were quarantined on campus or sent home this week in one of the most sweeping efforts yet by public health authorities to contain the spread of measles in the U.S., where cases have reached a 25-year high . By Friday [...]

The NYPD has arrested a man wanted in Flatbush for inappropriately touching women the past few weeks.
Following a YWN article a few weeks ago warning the community about the man, Flatbush Shomrim’s 24 hour emergency hotline received literally hundreds of calls reporting sightings of the man.