Monsey "almanah" accuses Monsey Broker Samuel Ehrenthal of Using Religious Organizations to Hide Assets

 A creditor claims that a bankrupt Monsey insurance broker is concealing millions of dollars in assets in religious organizations and businesses to avoid paying his debts.

Judith Gluck, also of Monsey, sued Samuel Ehrenthal in federal bankruptcy court on March 27.

Ehrenthal “failed to accurately disclose, and therefore concealed, his property,” the complaint states, “with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud a creditor … and the court.”

Ehrenthal and his bankruptcy attorney, Kevin J. Nash, did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages asking for his side of the story.

Ehrenthal filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in December, declaring $1.8 million in assets and nearly $14.6 million in liabilities.

His assets are composed mostly of his house on Highview Road in Monsey that is valued at $1.2 million. He listed $543,631 in retirement funds, four parcels of land in New York and Pennsylvania worth $37,200, $200 in a checking account and $200 in a brokerage account.

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Ivanka Trump Prays at Lubavitcher Ohel in Late Night Visit

 

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, has paid a late-night visit to the Old Montefiore Cemetery in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York, Thursday night.

She came to pray at the Ohel, the holy gravesite of the Rebbe which is frequented year-round by Jews and non Jews from around the world.

She was accompanied by Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum, directors of Chabad of Livingston in New Jersey, who are close to her husband Jared Kushner, a Senior Advisor to President Trump.

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Chassidishe Wedding Held in Arab town in Effort to Avoid Detection

 Police on Wednesday dispersed an ultra-Orthodox wedding held at an unexpected location — the Arab village of Kafr Qasim.

The reason for the choice in locale was because the bride and groom wanted to avoid detection while holding a wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings, according to a Channel 12 news report Thursday.

Under the partial lockdown in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, weddings, like other outdoor events, are capped at 20 people.

An eyewitness quoted by the network said the revelers played Arabic music over the loudspeaker in an effort to blend into the surroundings.

The wedding was reportedly held at a venue owned by a Kfar Qasim resident and video of the event showed dozens of guests not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.

The police announced in a statement that they broke up the wedding and fined the owner of the venue NIS 5,000 ($1,480) after accidentally coming across the gathering while in the area on an unrelated operation.

“The Israel Police calls on all business owners and the public to obey the Health Ministry guidelines in order to prevent the spread of the virus,” the statement said.

The wedding is reportedly not the first ultra-Orthodox event held in an  Arab village in an effort to avoid detection, according to Channel 12.

While Kafr Qasim was largely spared by the first wave of coronavirus, months later the city was facing 170 coronavirus infections per 10,000 residents, the second-highest rate in the country. It has since seen a marked drop in new cases.

Large weddings, traditionally held in summer, were often blamed as the source of the outbreak in Israel’s Arab community.

Wednesday night also saw a row between officers and revelers at a wedding held at a Dead Sea beach, as guests expressed outrage over cops trying to shut down the event, and the groom appeared to become ill over the ruckus.

The confrontation with police was filmed on a video that was shared on social media.

Last week, a bloody brawl erupted as police broke up a wedding held in a private home in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev.

Video shared on social media showed police scuffling with guests and family amid tables arranged for a celebration as people screamed and cried, with one man punched after being knocked to the floor. The bride’s brother was then led out of the house with blood streaming down his face.

Weddings are generally not allowed to take place at this time, and officials have refused to reopen wedding venues due to the fear of coronavirus infections at tightly packed events in which it is difficult to maintain social distancing.

Aaron Boxerman contributed to this report.

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Watch Leslie Stahl ...Lie .... in front of the world ...

 

Leslie Stahl humiliates herself in front of all of humanity. 👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/2T90uv41o8

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) October 22, 2020

 

President Trump says on 60 Minutes that "they spied on my campaign and they got caught."

Lesley Stahl says "There's no real evidence of that." pic.twitter.com/oLJoXr5apo

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 22, 2020

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Parshat Noach .... By DIN

 

In this week's parsha, Parshas Noach ... we find an interesting verse....

ויחל נח איש האדמה ויטע כרם 

"Noach, the man of the earth, planted a vineyard"

This happened right after the flood, when Noach and his family left the ark.

Rashi struggles with the word ויחל.....Rashi says that this word comes from the word חולין.... "profane" 

שהיה לו לעסוק תחילה בנטיעה אחרת ..... "for he should first have engaged in a different sort of planting"

Unkelis understands the word ויחל to mean "and he began" so according to Unkelis the verse translated in English would read:

"Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard"

Rashi could not go along with Unkelis's understanding of ויחל since if this would be the meaning of that word, it would be superfluous, since it's obvious from how the Torah relates the story that this is what Noach "began" to do.

Either way, all agree that the first thing Noach did was to plant a vineyard and subsequently got drunk.

Chazal say that Noach from the word  ויחל debased himself because he planted a vineyard before planting something more practical like wheat etc..

Question: 

Notice that in the verse I quoted above, the Torah calls Noach איש האדמה..... a man of the earth.....

But in the very first verse in this week's parsha, the Torah calls Noach 

איש צדיק תמים .... "a righteous man, perfect"

How does a guy go from being a איש צדיק תמים  to a איש האדמה

in less than two months? What happened?

Answer:

Much ink has been spilled trying to figure out what precisely happened in such a short time ... and the Baalei Mussar have different explanations.....everyone seems to agree that Noach changed, and it wasn't for the better.

My understanding is the following:

There are two different type of people that survive destruction...

There are those who having witnessed and survived a catastrophe  literally lose it .... they lose their faith, their courage, their ambition and cannot move on, always looking back on how the world seemed before the destruction. .... 

should they even decide to somehow continue, they no longer have the enthusiasm and ambition they once had, and the memories of the destruction is always on their mind....they become a shell of themselves,

Many of those who survived the Holocaust were from this group, they lost their faith in humanity and in their G-D. 

But they lost more than faith.... they lost all trust in humanity...

If civilized people can become animals in a matter of weeks....if people who were in the arts, who were educated, who were doctors and nurses could take their neighbors to torture them, to rape and murder them, for no reason .... if good civilized neighbors who they trusted with their very lives can take innocent babies and toddlers and shoot them to death.... 

then what hope is there to carry on? Who can they trust?

and so they basically gave up....

I am not judging them ...

There is another group of people that survive and witness atrocities, this group become stronger for it ....they move forward and even though it never leaves their conscience, they ride above it and decide based on their faith and values, that they have an obligation to rebuild their lives, they continue to believe that not all humans are capable of murder....they continue to trust .... and based on that trust, they move forward .....

My father, z"l whose yurzeit is today was from this group. He lost a wife and children and yet he chose to rebuild his life from those very ashes, and didn't wait too long to marry in the DP camps of Germany ...

If you should look back in Jewish History, you will find that the majority of Jews were from this second group .... 

Unfortunately, Noach couldn't handle it ... he must have missed his family, his friends and even though the generation was a bad one, this was all he knew ..and even though, unlike the Holocaust victims, he had been told that this would happen 120 years before it actually occurred ...but when it actually happened he went into shock and when he emerged from the ark to see total annihilation, complete destruction and devastation, he needed to drown his troubles in liquor..

וישאר אך נח ... "and he became just Noach" no longer the איש צדיק

Noach lived 350 years after the flood, yet there is no mention of him again ... he seems to have disappeared ..

Avraham Aveenu actually knew Noach; Avraham was 58 years old when Noach died ... and yet nowhere is it mentioned that they had any relationship ...

I am sure that Avraham who was a "people person" would have sought him out if there was any hope that he could learn anything from him ...

Noach just disappeared and became a hermit ...

We live now in a different sort of destruction ... a plague .. a virus that doesn't seem to go away ...

We need to choose which category we want to belong to...

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Zera Shimshon Parshat Noach

 

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Summary of Last Night's Debate

The best Trump ever.

That’s what America saw in Thursday’s debate as the president finally found his stride. He was substantive, measured and relatively calm — a combination that enabled him to give the best debate performance I’ve ever seen from him.

His repeated focus on jobs and economic growth reflected the success of his first three years and why 56 percent of survey respondents recently told Gallup they were better off than four years ago.

The president neglected to mention that important survey, but, asked what he would say to those who didn’t vote for him if he won, his answer captured the same optimism: “Success is going to bring us together.”

Where’s that guy been hiding?

He  learned from his mistakes and was consistently disciplined throughout the 95 minutes.

Yet because most polls show him trailing Joe Biden, Trump was also eager to open another contrast, so he frequently brought up the e-mail evidence that the former vice president was directly implicated in son Hunter’s shady business dealings around the globe.

Again, the president was aggressive without being overbearing, yet had to repeat the details because of the outrageous blackouts by Big Media and Big Tech of the stories. But the new charges from Tony Bobulinski, the insider-turned-whistleblower, that he met with Joe Biden personally to discuss a suspect deal with a Chinese energy company will likely force the issue more into the open.

Biden’s answer, that “I’ve never taken a penny from a foreign source in my life,” sounds a lot like his earlier claim that he’d never even discussed his son’s businesses with him. We know now that wasn’t true.

Notably, however, Biden still did not dispute the specifics of Bobulinski’s charges or claim that the e-mails were not authentic.

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Ultra-Orthodox leadership has failed its own followers ....

by Esty Shushan

Over the past few months, being an ultra-Orthodox individual in the public sphere in Israel has not been a pleasant experience. The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a new reality with respect to the way the general public perceives Haredi society and the change – especially when people are already on edge – has not been for the better.

While no one could have predicted that the closed Haredi sector would be dealing with a global pandemic or the scope of the outbreak that has gripped it, recent events make it impossible for me to defend the ultra-Orthodox leadership.

There has been much talk recently about the secular and ultra-Orthodox sectors going their separate ways. Let the Haredim keep to their overcrowded cities – cordon them off during the pandemic and the rest of Israel could breathe easy, many argue.

But the problem does not lie within the Haredi cities. The problem lies with a broken, degenerate, political system, and that is the makings of the leadership chosen by the majority of the Israel public.

Many have always made it a point to remind the Haredim that they are a minority and therefore that it is more important to act wisely and pragmatically; to indulge the forces of mainstream lobbying with economic and political incentives so as to foster a "healthy evolutionary change."

But modern viruses do not spend millions of years evolving. They become biological and social mutations in a heartbeat, exposing the degenerate system for what it is.

This political system has produced relative quiet for Israeli leaders, as well as near-complete independence and absolute control for the ultra-Orthodox leaders.

Under the auspices of the existing system, initiatives promoting reforms in the ultra-Orthodox education system have been blocked, and the same fate befalls any attempt to improve the situation of Haredi women. The victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse are silenced and abuses in the workplace are allowed – and the list continued.

Power corrupts, and the ultra-Orthodox leadership has received unlimited power. True, most Haredi voters elected it, but under the auspices of state laws, Haredi cities were "red zones" long before the coronavirus pandemic made it all the rage.

This absolute power, however, was not used by community leaders to bring order into the chaos of the coronavirus outbreak. Yes, Haredi leaders are skilled in mobilizing voters to the ballots come Election Day, but they failed to use their power to stop the catastrophe that is slowly but surely killing off these voters.

The outcome of the Haredi leadership's decision-making process during the first coronavirus outbreak was terrible, but they could be chalked up to the uncertainty of dealing with something never before seen. But what happened during the second outbreak is nothing short of gross negligence.

Ultra-Orthodox leaders abandoned their constituents to the mercy of a deadly virus, as well as to the hatred of other sectors in Israeli society, regardless of how closely they observe the Health Ministry's guidelines. For Haredi society, this was a lose-lose situation.

Many may say this is a time for reconciliation – not criticism. I adamantly disagree. It is time for Haredi leaders to come to their senses, unpleasant as it may be. 

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Trump Pulls the Rug under Leslie Stahl and Releases Video Of ’60 Minutes’ Interview That he Walked Out Of

The "white witch" Leslie Stahl thought she would cut and paste her video to make Trump look bad... well she met her match ... he released the video before they can air it on Sunday,,,,

her questions were crazy asking him about the economy knowing that the country is in a lockdown because of the virus ....and the economy is actually rebounding despite the lockdown .....

President Donald Trump followed through on his threat, or promise, to release video of his interview with CBS News journalist Leslie Stahl before it is set to air on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

Trump was interviewed by Stahl at the White House on Tuesday, but abruptly ended the interview after 45 minutes, declining to participate in a scheduled walk-and-talk that would have included vice president Mike Pence as well. Later that day, he said on Twitter said that he was “considering” posting the White House’s copy of the video interview, “so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about.”

On Thursday, Trump tweeted a link to about 37 minutes of the interview after CBS earlier Thursday released segments that it said occurred right before the president abruptly ended the discussion.

“You’re so negative,” Trump said. “You just come in here with this negative attitude.”

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Kamala’s husband: ‘I'm married to next President of the United States'

 

Thisviral video proves Biden is mere decoy in US presidential election.

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Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Discuss Jeffrey Toobin....

 

For those readers that were living in a cave in the last few days.... 

Jeffrey Toobin is the  CNN reporter that was caught masturbating on a zoom conference..... he was the one that calls Trump "sleaze" 

G-d does have a sense of humor..

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Watch Sleazy Hunter Biden's Ridiculous Excuses For Getting Millions

Keep in mind that this interview took place when Biden was still running against other democrats ... so when you hear from the reporter that there is "no evidence" .... know that in the last few days evidence has been recovered that he did in fact receive money ....

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Naftuli Moster Boasts That He Is the "Muser" That Blew the Whistle on the Planned 10,000 Person Satmar Wedding

by Naftuli Moster (The Belzer)

On Saturday night, shortly after observant Jews went back online after Shabbat, Orthodox media outlets, Twitter accounts, and WhatsApp groups were ablaze about news that had broken several hours earlier.

At his afternoon press conference, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his office would shut down a planned wedding for the grandson of Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Williamsburg Satmar rabbi, which organizers said would attract as many as 10,000 followers. In the days leading up to the governor’s statement, I was the sole voice warning, both on social media and via private channels, about this upcoming potential “super spreader” event.

But here’s how the popular Orthodox news site Yeshiva World News reported on it: “YWN notes that the rabid self-hating Jew Naftali [sic] Moster of the YAFFED Organization who has been working for years b’mesiras nefesh [with relentless zeal] to destroy our Mosdos Hatorah [Torah institutions and schools], has the past few days been alerting the media and the authorities about this wedding.”

YWN is keenly aware of the dangers of whipping up the crowd against individuals with such language. Just in the last two weeks they reported on the brutal attacks against Berish Getz and Jacob Kornbluh, a former YWN journalist now with Jewish Insider, who were both accused of being “mosers” (snitches). Following the incidents, YWN was widely praised for publishing an op-ed by Yehuda Rechnitz, an influential Orthodox millionaire, in which he denounced the main inciter of those attacks, Heshy Tischler.

As expected, a torrent of hateful messages toward me followed the YWN article. I was called a “Nazi,” a member of the “Judenrat,” and a moser. One commenter on Vos iz Neias, another Orthodox news site, wrote that I “must be taken out.”

My motivation for reporting such irresponsible behavior outweighs the unpleasantness of the online harassment, although I am unfortunately well aware that it could escalate to physical violence.

A week ago on Monday, I received the first tip about the planned wedding from a Hasidic friend whom I had gotten to know through my work at Yaffed, the organization I founded, that aims to increase secular education standards in Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox schools. In recent months, the tipster’s greatest frustration has been the Haredi Orthodox leadership’s failure to serve as role models to the community members who take their cues from them, as well as the media and government’s failure to see through the blatant deceit and doublespeak of community leaders.

He sent me a picture of the wedding announcement featured in a Hasidic newspaper.
The announcement read, in part, “Friends near and far, dear students, please participate in my celebration.” It provided the address of the big Satmar shul of Williamsburg, and it was signed by Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of Satmar of Williamsburg.

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Hunter Biden's Partner Details Joe Biden’s Push to Make Millions from China.... Breaking

 

Wait until Scranton hears about this.

One of Joe Biden’s ways of contrasting himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values.

Now we learn that Biden has secretly been playing footsie with China.

The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.

The dynamite assertion, believable because it aligns with earlier information we know to be true, came in a statement by Tony Bobulinski, who describes himself as a former partner of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Joe’s brother Jim in the China scheme. Bobulinski unloads his bill of accusations in blunt but precise language and detail.

He confirms that he was one of the recipients of the May 13, 2017, e-mail published by The Post eight days ago. That e-mail, from another partner in the group, laid out cash and equity positions and mysteriously included a 10 percent set-aside for “the big guy.”

Sources have said the “big guy” was Joe Biden. In a matter-of-fact manner, Bobulinski states that the “e-mail is genuine” and that the former vice president and the man leading in the 2020 race is indeed “the big guy.”

That claim alone rips out the heart of nearly everything Joe Biden has ever said about Hunter’s many businesses and Joe’s knowledge of them. His repeated insistence that the two never spoke of the son’s global sources of money didn’t pass the laugh test.

After all, they traveled together to China on Air Force Two, where Hunter landed a $1.5 billion commitment from a government-controlled Chinese bank. Then there was Hunter’s $83,000-a-month gig on the board of a Ukrainian energy company — despite his lack of experience in Ukraine or knowledge of energy.

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Rabbis Finally Discover Cause of Covid-19

 

The posters plastered all over Chareidie neighborhoods reads:

"Terrible Discovery"

it then goes on to say that the holy rabbis discovered why Hashem sent Covid-19 ..... and you probably guessed it ..... 

it's all about the women ..... they are not dressing "tzneeisdik" 

Covid-19 has nothing to do with the sins of men... only the women...

The women that carry their babies, that cook and clean for them, bring up their children while they "shukel" and "shukel" and run to the rebbe's tish trying to grab some "shrayim" fish ... 

it's all their fault .... 

If only the poor goyishe farmer in Italy who contracted the virus would  know that the reason he got the virus is because some lady in Bnei-Brak that has 14 children is wearing a tichel with some gray hair showing...

What would the family in Texas do if they only knew that the reason their beloved father is on a ventilator and gasping for air is because women in Meah Shearim are not wearing "bullet proof" stockings?

I am only writing about the "bad" Chareidie women, because these posters are only targeting chareidie neighborhoods. 

I wonder what the rebbitzins think about this?

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The Sun is Setting for American Jews

Jews Arriving on Ellis Island 

On October 15, 2020, Bari Weiss, the journalist who resigned from the New York Times, no longer willing to tolerate the anti Jewish biases which she noted and to which she was subjected, published a piece called “Stop Being Shocked,” in Tablet. 

In this article, Ms. Weiss expresses surprise at the Jewish community’s failure to acknowledge the growing intolerance of Jews and Zionism in present day America. In support, I offer some of my own thoughts on this disturbing subject.

Way back in the fifties, when I was a student at Esther Schoenfeld High School on the lower East Side of New York, we studied a book of Jewish history written in Hebrew, imported from Israel and taught by our beloved teacher, Morah Altuskey. It was a very small book, printed on very cheap paper but I cherished it until it finally crumbled and could no longer be salvaged. Each chapter began, "Vedarach Hashemesh Vezarach Hashemesh - The sun set on one Jewish community and rose on another."

So it was with the Rhineland, Spain, Portugal, Poland and so forth, all through Jewish history, down through the ages.

The sun is setting for American Jews. It was inevitable. I wish I could write as eloquently as Bari Weiss, but I can’t, I speak and write in Bronx English peppered with Yiddish. There is a Yiddish expression, "Doss zelbeh kallah ahndersh geshlait - the same bride, just dressed differently." Anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-hareidim, all euphemisms for anti-Semitism.

America is entering a revolutionary phase. Although the so called ghettoes all across America have been smoldering for decades, they were left unattended or unmanaged. Now these fires have erupted into flames forming movements to tear down, destroy, eliminate history, eliminate SAT, eliminate white privilege, eliminate what have you. This is a movement may in part be a result of despair and hopelessness, but it is fueled on by lawlessness and driven by cunning manipulators with their own agendas. The skewed thinking is since we believe we cannot achieve and succeed in so called white America as it exists, we will take by force and derive benefits by other unconventional, lawless means.

We Jews always head the target list for attack. Why? For the same reasons we held that honored position in Germany, Austria, in every country on the face of the globe. Cancel culture is part of this thinking, especially our culture, not unlike the Nazis ripping apart Torah scrolls. A culture of “Thou shalt not,” needs to be destroyed else one cannot loot, steal, burn, take wrongfully what is not yours.

America has failed miserably, for whatever reasons, in addressing the needs and wants of inner city populations, mostly black, and now America is under attack - but we, the Jews, are the first victims. Our being singled out and targeted has nothing to do with Zionism, Rabin, Israeli politics, hassidim, and everything to do with Jews as history’s favorite object of envy and scapegoating.

Many Orthodox Jews observe what is happening and where this is heading. A friend who applied for Aliyah wrote, “We are getting out before they throw us out.” Jews with little or no affiliation or understanding of Jewish history are having difficulty connecting the dots. Wasn’t that true of German Jews in the thirties?

Some Jews are surprised or shocked and some are in total denial. Remember, the esteemed Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with Martin Luther King in the sixties yet when black Hollywood made the movie Selma depicting the event, Heschel was completely left out of the film.

Unfounded hysteria? Jewish paranoia? The Jewish Agency reports that American Jews are applying for Aliyah in record numbers. The sun may be setting for Jews in America but here in Israel, the sun is rising and every day, thanks to Hashem, growing stronger and brighter.

Lila Lowell grew up in NYC, earned an MSW and is a licensed certified clinical social worker (LCSW-C). She and her husband followed in their children's footsteps and made aliya from Montreal to Jerusalem 14 years ago. She is active in social welfare and in promoting Jewish Heritage and Zionist projects. 

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Man Who Killed the Glaubers Has Convictions Overturned

 

A Brooklyn man involved in the fatal crash that killed a Williamsburg Jewish couple and their unborn baby in March 2013, has had his convictions overturned.

On March 3, 2013, Julio Acevedo crashed into a livery cab while driving his BMW at 70 miles per hour, killing Nathan Glauber, 21, and his wife, Raizy, 21, who was seven months pregnant with their son, Tanchem. He was delivered alive, but died the next day.

Acevedo fled the scene of the accident, but was arrested by police 4 days later.

In 2015, Acevedo was convicted of two counts of second-degree manslaughter, one count of criminally negligent homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting in Feb. 2015 after a trial.

Acevedo faced up to 15 years in prison on the top count, but because he was a persistent felony offender, he received an enhanced sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

But Acevedo’s convictions were overturned today by the Second Judicial Department of the Appellate Court of New York State. The court ruled that the evidence against him was legally insufficient to conclude that his driving was reckless enough to be considered criminal negligence.

This leaves one charge remaining, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it, for which Acevedo will be resentenced.

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HaRav Yosef Weiss Author of "Visions of Greatness" Passes on at 59

HaRav of Reb Yosef Weiss Z”L, the beloved Menahel at Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh in Lakewood, and the author of multiple books, most notably the popular “Visions of Greatness” series died on Wednesday,  he was 59. 

The Niftar previously served as the head Yeshiva Ruach Hatorah, and in earlier years was the English principal in Satmar and other Yeshivas.

Rav Yosef Z”L suffered from an illness the past year.

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Hospital in New York Treats Non-Covid Patients In Same Room As Covid Patients ... Infecting the Non-Covid With the Virus Killing Them

 

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