Approximately 200 Israeli Shuvu boys joined together for a gala bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, enjoying festive celebrations, heartwarming live music and Divrei Torah from luminaries of the Torah world. Among the most touching moments of the joyous event was when 30 boys who turned 13 this month were presented with brand new, beautiful Tefillin, funded by donations from bar mitzvah boys in the United States and London.

Authorities in Florida say a man was arrested outside the arena where President Donald Trump made his reelection announcement for trying to slap a cellphone out of a journalist’s hand.
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Who doesn’t love nostalgia?
Music aficionados will appreciate these Hartzig masterpieces.
Presenting, some amazing Yossi Green classics, performed by the incomparable Avraham Fried.
These three featured songs are from Avremel’s repertoire spanning a decade from the early years of his career (1983-1993).

A man robbed a bank on 12 Avenue and West 29 Street on Wednesday afternoon, and the NYPD moved fast to apprehend him.
The man apparently fled with a “dye pack” from the bank that was being tracked.

Investigators have found that problems with a fire truck basket apparently led to a New York City firefighter’s fatal fall in April 2017.
The fire department’s Safety Investigation Team released its undated findings this month in William Tolley’s death.
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The 3rd grade class at Yeshiva Ateret Torah (boys) made a Kiddush Hashem on Wednesday.
Their Rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Ozeri, took the entire class to see the three burned homes that were torched in an arson fire.

California public health officials would have oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the bill’s author disclosed the deal aimed at cracking down on fraudulent exemptions issued by sympathetic doctors.

Four people, including a prominent eastern Ukrainian separatist commander, were charged with murder Wednesday in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine that killed 298 people.
A team of international investigators announced the charges, saying the trial will start in March 2020 at the Hague District Court, sitting in a high-security courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

Dear YWN. I am a proud parent at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Flatbush. They sent out this incredible letter which I feel should be widely disseminated. I want to reiterate that I was in no way no way asked to send this to YWN.
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More than seven fire units were working multiple blazes in the Lifta area of the Jerusalem corridor. There was a serious concern that due to the current condition, the fire may continue moving towards the entrance to Jerusalem.