Scientists from 17 nations, including the United States, Russia and China, are preparing for a yearlong mission to the central Arctic to study the impact climate change is having on the planet’s frigid far north.
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Hiddush is an Israeli-based organization that will often pursue anti-Torah hashkafos. In 2017, it petitioned the Israeli Court to require that the IDF’s regulations be amended to permit military burials that would also allow for clergy that deny the tenets of classical Judaism.

A mother and a child were seriously injured after they were stuck by a vehicle in South Blooming Grove, NY, Thursday night.
The incident happened on Route 208 at around 10:00PM.
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As YWN readers are aware, this past November, State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia released new rules to require all private schools to teach essentially the same classes as the public schools.
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Jerusalem district police arrested an Arab resident of the eastern capital who posed as a physician, working in a local clinic, treating patients seeking “aesthetic changes” as well as prescribing medications.

Non-native iguanas are multiplying so rapidly in South Florida that a state wildlife agency is now encouraging people to kill them.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission news release says people should exterminate the large green lizards on their properties as well as on 22 public land areas across South Florida.

The buzz word today in the right-wing camp is ‘achdus’ as efforts to unite parties with Bayit Yehudi ahead of elections continue. Bayit Yehudi chairman, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, continues calling for achdus, but he does have conditions attached to such a move.
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The Chief Rabbis of Israel, HaRav Dovid Lau and Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Shlita met with the Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian community in Israel, Rabbi Reuven Wabeshet (וובשת) together with community leaders and agreement was reached to calm the situation after the violent demonstrations as well as ending the violent protests.

Four people from the Gadera municipal council, including senior officials, stand accused of extortion by threatening a chareidi official from the council, that if he does not resign, a video will be distributed showing him in a very embarrassing situation in his shul.

A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president.