The U.S. government said Monday that it won’t build President Donald Trump’s border wall on the site of a historic cemetery that might have required the exhumation of graves.
In a statement, U.S.
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Met Council on Jewish Poverty hosted sixty-seven elected officials and hundreds of community leaders, policy makers and heads of affiliated Jewish Community Councils at their annual Legislative Breakfast at The Yale Club in Manhattan.

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is already behind bars in Pennsylvania on a federal conviction, is close to being transferred into custody in New York City to face state fraud charges, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Numerous vehicles were towed in Flatbush in an long overdue NYPD crackdown.
The NYPD showed up outside Plaza Auto Mall on Nostrand Avenue between Avenue M and N in Flatbush on Tuesday, and began towing and placing boots on all vehicles.

A New York school district has finished installing a facial recognition system intended to spot potentially dangerous intruders, but state officials concerned about privacy say they want to know more before the technology is put into use.
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Jerusalem police are completing preparations for the upcoming Shavuos weekend including “Leil Shavuos” at the Kosel on motzei Shabbos.
During the Shabbos/Yomtov weekend, a large force of police, border police and other forces will be deployed to maintain order in the city, with an emphasis on the Old City, the streets leading to it, shuls hotels, and recreational and nature sites.

As YWN has been reporting, Flatbush is scheduled for another epic Chillul Hashem by the anti-vaxxer cult and its guest speaker, dishonest conspiracy-theorist William Handler of Boro Park, who seems to be the Rabbi of the cult.

Parents, alumni and friends of Yeshivas Vyelipol will be uniting tonight in an unprecedented display of hakaras hatov to mark the 25th anniversary of a cherished makom Torah. It’s happening at Tiferes Rivka Hall in Boro Park, and devoted followers will be there to express appreciation to the Yeshiva and Rabbeim who have molded their futures,

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has been arrested outside NY Gov Cuomo’s office during a “Housing Justice 4 All” protest with a coalition of activists.

As has been covered extensively on YWN, the Frum world is on the midst of a measles outbreak unprecedented in recent times. This is due to a small minority of people who refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children, putting their own families and those around them at risk of catching one of the most contagious diseases known to man.