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• Federal court slaps down Trump lawsuit: ‘Calling vote unfair doesn’t make it so’

  The Times of Israel Nov 27, 2020 | 22:03 pm

  Judges flatly dismiss US president's claims of rigged election, refuse to overturn Biden's Pennsylvania win, in latest of many legal defeats for Trump campaign

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• A truck bomb, then a hail of bullets: Iranian media describes hit on Fakhrizadeh

  The Times of Israel Nov 27, 2020 | 21:22 pm

  A team of gunmen assassinated alleged head of Iranian nuclear weapons program, several of his bodyguards, after stopping vehicle with a hidden explosive, local reports[…]

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• ‘Casino’ at 25: A guide to its protagonist and Hollywood’s other Jewish mobsters

  The Times of Israel Nov 27, 2020 | 19:57 pm

  Martin Scorsese's epic crime drama, starring Robert De Niro, debuted last week in 1995; its main character was one of many Jews in the canon[…]

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• US, world leaders mum on Fakhrizadeh killing; ex-CIA chief calls hit ‘reckless’

  The Times of Israel Nov 27, 2020 | 19:01 pm

  UN calls for restraint after assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist; Pompeo announces sanctions against supporters of Iran's missile program; US aircraft carrier sails to Gulf

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• Creeping in through Syria, Iran is just a border fence away from Israel

  The Times of Israel Nov 27, 2020 | 18:04 pm

  Via its proxy Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, Tehran has all but succeeded in opening a second front against the Jewish state; in Gaza, Hamas wields[…]

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• Petira of Hagaon HaRav Elya Meir Sorotzkin ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Springfield

  The Yeshiva World Nov 27, 2020 | 13:49 pm

  YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Elya Meir Sorotzkin ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Springfield Yeshiva in NJ. He was[…]

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• GOOD RIDDANCE: Head Of Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program Assassinated; In 2018 Netanyahu Said “Remember That Name, Fakhrizadeh”

  The Yeshiva World Nov 27, 2020 | 09:40 am

  An Iranian scientist who led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program was assassinated Friday. The Fars news agency said the attack happened in Absard, a[…]

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• JUST IN: Satmar Cancels Massive “Chuf Alef Kislev” Celebrations, Normally Attended By Thousands

  The Yeshiva World Nov 27, 2020 | 09:00 am

  Chof Alef Kislev is a special day in Satmar. It marks the day that Hagon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum ZATZAL, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in[…]

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• Court Ruling Cuts Sentence For Quebec Mosque Shooter

  The Yeshiva World Nov 27, 2020 | 08:00 am

  Quebec’s highest court has declared consecutive life sentences to be unconstitutional, reducing the sentence given to the man who murdered six people in a Quebec[…]

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• Schools Struggle To Stay Open As Quarantines Sideline Staff

  The Yeshiva World Nov 27, 2020 | 07:30 am

  The infection of a single cafeteria worker was all it took to close classrooms in the small Lowellville school district in northeastern Ohio, forcing at[…]

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