Two Boro Park women are hospitalized – one of them on life support – after contracting the flu.
This prompted Boro Park Hatzolah to send out an urgent message calling on everyone to vaccinate.

The 29h yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D is observed on 18 Cheshvan, this coming Shabbos.
Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D was assassinated in NYC following a speaking engagement.
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When Ukraine elected its first Jewish president, Vlodymyr Zelensky, by a landslide victory in April, 20-year-old Arkady Kesselman backtracked on his plans to leave Ukraine for the West, according to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article on Tuesday.

We have a crisis on our hands that has caused tens of thousands of people to be in danger of losing their jobs and business owners to fall into massive debt.
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Attorney general of New York, Letitia James announced on Twitter that she has filed a lawsuit against B&H Photo, the famed New York electronics retailer.
Her tweet reads: We’ve filed a lawsuit against B&H, the photo & electronics store, for allegedly failing to pay sales tax on tens of millions of dollars they received from manufacturers for “instant rebate” discounts to customers.

At least seven people were shot Thursday morning on the campus of Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, prompting a massive response from sheriff’s deputies and paramedics, authorities said.
A Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson confirmed firefighters responded to the shooting before 8 a.m.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennet, who assumed his high-level post on the first day of Islamic Jihad rocket fire into Israel earlier this week, released a statement regarding what Israel is now calling ‘Operation Black Belt’.

Rav Dovid Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, traveled to Israel’s south on Wednesday to be mechazek the residents residing there.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday he is running for president, making a late entry into the Democratic race less than three months before primary voting begins.
In an announcement video, Patrick highlighted his poverty-stricken childhood on Chicago’s South Side, saying he’s running for the “people who feel left out and left back.”

A fire broke out in an apartment in a five-story apartment building on Shmuel HaNavi Street in Jerusalem early Thursday morning.
When firefighters arrived, they found children home alone, without parents present.