Witnesses on the ground near where a helicopter crashed into a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday, killing one, said the immediate aftermath was eerily reminiscent of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Daily Beast reports.
While there is no indication of terrorism in the crash, which resulted in the pilot’s death, Gov. Andrew Cuomo remarked that “If you’re a New Yorker you have a level of PTSD from 9/11.” Witnesses on the ground echoed that sentiment. Rafael Arias, an employee at the Pret-a-Manger on the bottom floor of the AXA Equitable Center, told The Daily Beast that he felt the building “sway” during the crash, which killed the pilot. “I thought maybe it was a mini-earthquake but then again we’re in New York and I was like, shit, maybe 9/11 again.”

Rabbi Shlomo Tawil, co-director of the local Chabad-Lubavitch organization, was attacked Sunday night by three men in Rosario, Argentina. The men shouted anti-Semitic epithets before removing the rabbi’s hat and trampling it on the ground, then beating the rabbi, who was walking alone.
The attack was stopped when passersby intervened. It has been characterized as anti-Semitic, since the attackers appeared to have started up with the rabbi to hurt him, and did not steal anything.
The local representative of the DAIA Jewish political umbrella in Argentina, Gabriel Dobkin, called the attack on the rabbi “a fierce, cowardly, anti-Semitic attack.”

At least one man was killed Monday when a helicopter crash landed on a high-rise building in Manhattan, the New York City Fire Department said.
The copter crashed on the building’s roof and a fire had been extinguished as of 3 p.m., according to a tweet from the fire department.
Police were heading to the scene and had no information, said New York City Police Department spokesman Detective Martin Brown. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement it is gathering information about the accident.
The building is located at 787 Seventh Avenue, according to the Fire Department.

It is with great sadness the Matzav.com reports the petira of Rav Nosson Kaminetzky, son of the HaGaon Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky, was nifter over Shabbos in at his home in Sorotzkin in Yerushalayim.
and was hospitalized several times in the past few months until his death.
Rav Nosson was born 89 years ago in Lithuania, later moving with his family to Brooklyn, New York where he studied at Yeshivat Torah V’Da’as, the Bais HaTalmud.
At the age of 40 Rav Nosson made aliya and was one of the founders of the Itri Yeshiva in Yerushalayim until his retirement 20 years ago.

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We learn a lot about the side benefits we get from doing mitzvot, as well as different segulot that we could do to get extra Heavenly help. It is important to know that we don’t fully understand how and when Hashem rewards. I once went over to a man whose daughter got married after waiting many years. I told him, I heard you did a machsom l’fi- getting a lot of people not to speak lashon hara for forty days and on the fortieth day you discovered the boy who eventually became your son-in-law.

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The United Arab Emirates told United Nations Security Council members on Thursday that attacks on four tankers off its coast on May 12 bore the hallmarks of a “sophisticated and coordinated operation,” most likely by a state actor.
In a document on the briefing to Security Council members, the UAE, joined by Norway and Saudi Arabia, did not say who it believed was behind the attacks and did not mention Iran, which has been accused by the United States of being directly responsible.
The attacks required expert navigation of fast boats and trained divers who likely placed limpet mines with a high degree of precision on the vessels under the waterline to incapacitate but not sink them, according to the preliminary findings of the countries’ joint investigation.

Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss it existing 2015 atomic pact with world powers, state TV reported.
French President Emmanuel Macron had said a day earlier that Paris and Washington both wanted to stop Tehran getting nuclear arms and new talks should focus on curbing its ballistic missiles program and on other issues.
But Iran‘s Foreign Ministry said it would not hold any discussions beyond the 2015 pact which US President Donald Trump abandoned last year as he pressed for tougher restrictions.

ISIS plotted to smuggle English-speaking terrorists through the Mexican border to carry out a financial attack that would “cripple” the US economy, according to a new report.
Details of the terror group’s failed plan to exploit the southern border emerged in a confession last month from one recruit, Abu Henricki, who ultimately refused to go along with the mission.
In the 90-minute interview on May 12, Henricki said he was enlisted to join ISIS by its intelligence wing, known as the emni, in 2016.
“What they wanted to do, basically, is they wanted to do financial attacks. Financial attacks to cripple the [US] economy,” Henricki said in the interview published by Homeland Security Today.

NASA is planning to allow private astronauts to fly to the International Space Station, the agency announced Friday, as well as open up the orbiting laboratory to more commercial interests.
The announcement is a significant change for the agency, which has had a long-standing prohibition against allowing tourists on the station. Russia, however, has allowed several private astronauts on the station.
The cost and arrangements would be left to SpaceX and Boeing, the two companies NASA has hired to fly crews to the station. But NASA would charge people for food, storage and communication while they are on the station, a cost that would come to about $35,000 a night.