Divers and search crews were still looking Tuesday for nine missing people after at least 25 were confirmed dead when a boat packed with scuba divers caught fire near an island off the Southern California coast. One of the people who passed away was a 40 year old Jewish woman from New Jersey.
A religious female security guard for the Prime Minister’s Office made news earlier this week, after she was spotted securing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed in Jerusalem. The young woman is the first religious woman to serve as a guard in the Prime Minister’s Office while wearing a hair covering – which are traditionally worn by married religious Jewish women.
A Hatzalah volunteer was assaulted Monday afternoon, prompting a large response by both Boro Park Shomrim and Hatzalah. The assailant crashed his vehicle as he attempted to get away, and was taken into custody.
Houston Texas, home to a growing Jewish community, has launched its own Hatzalah Volunteer EMS division. Hatzalah is a volunteer organization that provides lifesaving services with fast response times, and the care of a neighbor.
With great sadness we report the passing of Mordechai Yavets OBM, a three year old child from Far Rockaway, Queens who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Monday morning. Mordechai was struck by a vehicle on Virginia Street just after 11:00am. Hatzolah rushed him to the hospital, where he was passed away an hour later.
Hate struck again in New York City, this time in Queens. The attached images were found on the beach in Belle Harbor, on Monday morning, in the vicinity of Beach 138th Street. Hateful messages were scrawled into the sand on the beach.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an Orthodox Jewish man’s claim that he was pelted with ice while driving through Brooklyn — the second seemingly anti-Semitic attack to plague the borough in the last week.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is once again investigating a bias attack that occurred over Shabbos – this time in the heart of the Flatbush Jewish Community.
A ban on kosher slaughter goes into effect on Sunday in the French-speaking Wallonia province of Belgium. The new law requires the animals to receive an electric shock before slaughter, in a manner contrary to halakha.
In a press release about the anti-Semitic video released by the Republican Party of Rockland, Governor Andrew Cuomo published a press release condemning it.
A New Jersey law that permits assisted suicide went into effect after an Orthodox Jewish doctor lost in his bid to challenge the measure.
The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act was to take effect Aug. 1, but a state Superior Court judge placed a temporary hold on the law pending appeals.
The US Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the suspect in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
Graffiti was painted on the exterior of a historic yeshiva on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, JTA reported on Monday. The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim building was vandalized between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, possibly while students were inside, according to the report.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the exterior walls of a synagogue in Connecticut over Friday night. The graffiti on the Congregation Adath Israel synagogue building in Newtown was discovered at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, according to the report bu JTA.
A search in Harriman State Park for four missing teenagers ended without incident, Thursday afternoon. Sources tell YWN that Chaverim of Rockland along with Chaverim of Kiryas Joel launched the search at around 3:30PM. There were more than 2 dozen trained search volunteers searching the forest, and a command center was set up.
Hatzalah agencies and divisions from across the east coast came together in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, to learn from each other. The event, hosted at Senior Care EMS’s Brooklyn Base, allowed for the agencies to see the different ambulances and equipment used across the agencies.
Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of a 68-year-old man outside a North Miami Beach synagogue last month, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
