It was a festive day at Beaver Lake Estates in Monticello on Sunday, as the Shul welcomed a new Sefer Torah to its Shul, Congregation Ahavas Yisroel.
Sullivan County Sheriff Mike Schiff, one of the only Jewish Sheriff’s in the United States attended the event along with Undersheriff Eric Chaboty.

When your children wake up in the morning, do they jump out of bed excited about the school day ahead? When you walk through your children’s schools, do you notice joyful students, happy teachers and interactive lessons?
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Ending a brief media frenzy, South Korea’s military said it turned out to be a flock of birds that prompted it to launch fighter jets and alert journalists that it had detected an unidentified object flying near the border with North Korea on Monday.
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The chairman of the New Right and Zehut parties have reached a principled agreement on running together in the upcoming Knesset elections, but there is a major disagreement over who will head the party.
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The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency said on Monday that Iran was behind a string of recent attacks on targets across the Persian Gulf.
Yossi Cohen spoke at an annual security conference shortly before Iran acknowledged that it surpassed uranium enrichment limits set by the 2015 nuclear deal.

President Donald Trump lashed out at New York’s governor and attorney general Monday, accusing the Democrats of going after him in a “political Witch Hunt.”
In four tweets, Trump accused Gov.
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Minister Betzalel Smotrich, the number two man on the Bayit Yehudi list, called on New Right party chairman, Naftali Bennet, not to split the right-wing vote again to “avoid having right-wing votes trashed in the upcoming election in September”.
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Wall Street applauded a cease-fire in the U.S. trade war with China and started July with a bang.
The S&P 500 index was on track for a record high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 130 points in midday trading Monday.
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A Jerusalem district police undercover unit on Monday afternoon apprehended three suspects for throwing rocks at the Jerusalem light rail.
The masked attackers were detected by the undercover police operating in the Shuafat area in Jerusalem, as they were throwing rocks at the light rail, resulting in damage.

Sudanese activists said on Monday that at least 11 people were killed in clashes with security forces during mass demonstrations demanding a transition to civilian rule.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese flooded the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and other areas on Sunday in the biggest protests since security forces cleared a sit-in last month.