A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
RAVAGED BY A RARE ILLNESS ATTACKING HIS BRAIN
A FIRE DESTROYS HIS HOME
 LEAVING HIS FAMILY HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE
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A talmid chochom who has been sick for almost a year with a rare severe auto-immune disease, now lost everything in a terrible fire!
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A major event was hosted in the Nof Yerushalayim Hall on Wednesday night, with the highlight being the distribution of the ‘Shekel Tahor’ by the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg Shlita on his current visit to Eretz Yisroel.

A judge has temporarily halted the first federal executions in 16 years as a lawsuit on how the government intends to carry them out continues.
U.S. District Judge Tanya S.
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The stories of our lives are different. They change every day. But we have commonalities – threads that intertwine between people, communities, and generations.

HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Abrahams ZT”L, one of the last talmidim of the Chazon Ish was niftar early Thursday morning in Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, where he was hospitalized in the past months, battling a serious illness.

The Yesh Atid party, headed by MK Yair Lapid, was set to hold party primary elections for a first time before the 23rd Knesset.
Israel News12 political correspondent Amit Segal tweeted that primaries are scheduled to take place as per party regulations.
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A bill that would have prohibited abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome was vetoed Thursday by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor.
One day after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature, Gov.
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Representatives of Degel Hatorah and Agudas Yisrael on Thursday met to begin moving ahead plans for a combined major ‘Siyum HaShas’. Shas representatives did not participate according to a Kikar Shabbos News report.
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Democratic presidential candidates clashed in a debate over the future of health care in America, racial inequality and their ability to build a winning coalition to take on President Donald Trump next year.
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The following is the latest information available to YWN as of 4:30PM regarding the vicious and brutal assault and stabbing of 29-year-old Mordechai ben Bracha (Schlesinger).
Bichasdei Hashem, a serious and lengthy surgery ended just moments ago, and he is Borch Hashem responding to his family who is at his bedside.