As is well known, there is a minhag to make shlissel challah for the Shabbos after Pesach. Shlissel challahs are best known as a segulah for parnassah, although there are other several reasons for baking a challah with a key in it. However, some have raised health concerns regarding this minhag. Keys have been found to leave behind unsafe amounts of lead, leading some to suggest that the practice of placing keys in challahs in making shlissel challah may present a danger.

The White House on Friday hit back at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for accusing Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to lawmakers in sworn testimony.
“The fact that the Speaker would take it upon herself to call him a liar is really, really inappropriate and beneath her office,” deputy press secretary Steven Groves said on MSNBC.
Pelosi said Thursday that she “lost sleep” Wednesday night watching replays of Barr’s testimony. “He lied to Congress; he lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime,” Pelosi said.
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The annual “Every Person Has a Name” ceremony was held at the Knesset on Thursday, the Knesset members reading off the names of Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The ceremony, which was established 20 years ago by then-Knesset speaker, Holocaust survivor and partisan fighter Dov Shilansky, was named for a poem by the famed Israeli who called herself Zelda.
 

Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that the possibility he might have been spied on by U.S. intelligence officials in 2016 is “offensive.”
“And as the attorney general said when he testified before Congress, there was spying,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News’ Sandra Smith. “We need to understand why there was [and] whether there was a sufficient predicate,” he continued.
“We really need to get to the bottom of how this all began and if there was a violation of the rules, if the law was broken, the people that were responsible need to be held accountable,” he continued.
“But I have to tell you, it’s very offensive to me,” he added.

The U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in April, notching a record 103 straight months of job gains and signaling the current economic expansion shows little sign of stalling.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the Labor Department said Friday, the lowest since 1969. The official unemployment rate has been at or below 4% for more than a year.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) leads President Trump by 10 points in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new CNN–SSRS poll.
The survey released Thursday shows O’Rourke with support from 52 percent of registered voters, compared with Trump’s 42 percent. Two percent of voters said they wouldn’t support either candidate, and 4 percent said they had no opinion.
O’Rourke held the widest lead over Trump among other Democratic presidential candidates who were included in the potential matchup.
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The following is another message from Mr. Simon Bergson, owner of Manhattan Beer Distributers, as he stands near the van that’s delivering free beer and arbes for shalom zachors taking place tonight.
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Q: Can you explain to me why some some synagogues do not observe the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) observance for the Holocaust victims?

The left attacks Attorney General William Barr over Mueller report, reviving Russia narrative.
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