Protesters are blocking traffic on FDR Drive as the disciplinary trial gets underway for the NYPD officer accused in connection with the death of Eric Garner.
Traffic cameras showed a small number of demonstrators blocking FDR Drive at 25th Street.

With OHEL’S ONLINE XTreme Challenge (OOXC) You Can Experience the Thrill of Victory without Breaking a Sweat!
On Sunday, May19th  over 500 individuals will participate in OXC, OHEL’s Annual mud-run style extreme obstacle race at Camp Kaylie at OHEL in Wurtsboro, New York.

An Israeli woman was killed and three other Israeli citizens were injured in a vehicular accident that occurred on Monday morning in Portugal, the Israel Foreign Ministry confirms. The families in Israel have been notified.
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Wandering through the few streets that constitute Jewish Gateshead, even a casual observer senses the electricity in the air. People walk briskly with a sense of purpose, many with impossible-to-restrain, delighted smiles.
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Negotiators representing chareidi parties working to form a coalition government are working to protect the salaries of kindergartens teachers, particularly those in the chareidi system, Kikar Shabbos News reports. They point out that this is particularly necessary pertaining in cases when funds for salaries seem to disappear, stating this outrageous phenomenon must soon disappear.

Two Saudi oil tankers were targeted in what is being labeled a “sabotage attack” off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s minister of energy reports.
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Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan referenced “Satanic Jews” in a speech denying allegations of anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia after Facebook banned him from the social media platform.

House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “take action” against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling” in part because in its aftermath, the Palestinians helped create “a safe haven for Jews.”

A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday, using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy.

The state on Sunday signed an agreement regarding the indictment pertaining to the Duma arson case dating back to the summer of 2015, in which extremist right-wing Jews are believed to have firebombed the home of an Arab family in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Duma, leading to the deaths of members of the Darawshe family.