An emergency simulation exercise was held on Tuesday morning, May 21, 2019 involving police, fire and emergency medical service personnel in Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer.
The training event lasted for three hours, during which the various emergency agencies simulated dealing with various emergency scenarios that may occur over the Lag B’Omer weekend.

The Kaliver Rebbe of Williamsburg, HaRav Moshe Taub, has been hospitalized and is in need of Tefillos.
The Rebbe, who suffers from ALS, communicates via a special computer program named EZgaze.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose home state of Kentucky was long one of the nation’s leading tobacco producers, introduced bipartisan legislation Monday to raise the minimum age for buying any tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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House Democrats are facing yet another brazen attempt by President Donald Trump to stonewall their investigations , this time with former White House counsel Donald McGahn defying a subpoena for his testimony on orders from the White House.

These photos were taken in Lakewood in 1940 at the home of R’ Nissan Waxman.
The Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, “The Rayatz”, HaRav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn ZATZAL, spent almost three months in lakewood at the home of a supporter by the name of Mr.
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This video speaks for itself.
A Shomer Shabbos barber shop on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue N was destroyed in a blaze, Motzei Shabbos. But miraculously, the Seforim that the “Scissors to Clippers” had so customers can sit and learn as they wait to get their haircuts, survived the fire.

The following is via TLS:
A Jewish woman Niftar in 2018 will finally have a Jewish burial – nearly one year after her passing.
The woman was Niftar in July of 2018, but her body was not claimed by relatives, and due to various legal issues her remains were held until the issues could be resolved.

Two juveniles were arrested for attempting to rob multiple victims in Flatbush, Monday night.
Flatbush Shomrim received multiple calls on their hotline just after 8:30PM, reporting a group of four black males walking in the vicinity of Avenue L and East 32 Street.

Iran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.
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Six years after the stone-throwing attack which critically wounded the Adele Biton HY”D, who died two years later from pneumonia, her mother, Adva Biton gave birth to a seventh child on the birthday of Adele.