There is something unique and overwhelming about the Sephardic Bet Hakenesset. It’s not just the stately décor and handsome furniture.It’s the respect for tefillah that reverberates from the walls, the tangible commitment to prayer, its chants, tunes, and laws, the total communal participation, its customs, and its atmosphere.

The home was an inferno in seconds. By the time the FDNy arrived at the scene at Thursday’s arson fire in Flatbush, one home was fully engulfed in flames.
We now know that an accelerant was used, as the NYPD and Fire Marshals made an arrest on Saturday night of Matthew Karelefsky, of McKeesport, Pa.

The head of the Dir Qadis Council, Radi Nasser, has been fired from his position in the Fatah party as well as being suspended from the Palestinian educational system after chareidim were seen at the wedding of his son, the daily Haaretz reports.

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Q and A with D.B., a PCS (division of Agudath Yisroel of America) alumnus from 2015
Q: Is accounting a good career choice for frum women?
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THIS WEEK: Aliza, Rescued Woman to Speak in Lakewood, Baltimore & Staten Island
Aliza, a rescued woman who was trapped for many years, to tell her story of how Yad L’Achim rescued her and her children. 
“He said to me, ‘If you leave, there will be nothing left to find.’ ”

Two overturned vehicles in Lakewood in under two hours left multiple people injured on Motzei Shabbos.
The first accident was just after Shabbos on Forest Avenue and 4th Street.
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12 people were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned on Glen Wild Road in Rock Hill on Motzei Shabbos.
According to the Rock Hill Fire Department, no one was trapped in the vehicle.
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President Donald Trump’s pick for his “border czar” says he’s not accepting the job — at least “as of right now.”
The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, Tom Homan, tells Fox News that Trump’s announcement that he would rejoin the administration to coordinate its response to a surge in illegal border crossings was “premature.”

A U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas came under new scrutiny Saturday after a teenage mother was found there with a premature baby.
Immigrant advocates expected the facility in the U.S.-Mexico border city of McAllen to allow doctors inside to conduct health assessments, but it was not immediately clear whether those assessments took place.

A United Airlines flight blew out some its tires and skidded on a runway Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to delays while the plane was towed away, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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