YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Yochi Rubi Z”L. He was a few weeks shy of his 25th birthday.
Yochi lived in Boro Park and moved to Lakewood a few years ago.
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To better understand who and what the broader Jewish community has been up against in the vaccination civil war against measles, one only had to look at those gathered in the NYS Assembly gallery on Thursday. 
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The Swedish Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Chabad Shluchim Rav Alexander and Leah Namdar, in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. As a result, they must pay a fine of $67,000 for the ‘crime’ of their children studying Torah.
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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.

Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government’s agenda.
Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last year to track its battle against government-linked misinformation.

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) correspondent Meir Marziano on Thursday that if the Health Ministry’s budget is cut, he will not enter the coalition government.
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Hundreds of Monsey Yeshiva students line the streets to pay last respects to the late Monsey Fire Dept Chief Richard Lagarde on Tuesday.
Lagarde served the Monsey community for 47 years.
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Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has hired a new lawyer, a former federal prosecutor who has repeatedly denigrated the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump took notice of Flynn’s new legal representation, praising Sidney Powell on Twitter as a “GREAT LAWYER” and wishing them luck.

Once again, Israelis are facing a price hike as the cost of dairy products increased on Thursday, June 13, 2019. The approval for the price hike was signed by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon two weeks ago.
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Lawmakers and experts said Thursday that videos altered with artificial intelligence software pose a threat to national security and the 2020 U.S. election.
The technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos — known as “deep fakes” — that appear genuine, and they “enable malicious actors to foment chaos, division or crisis,” said Rep.