Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s call to fill streets around the nation Wednesday but security forces showed no sign of backing his cry for a widespread military uprising, instead dispersing crowds with tear gas as the political crisis threatened to deepen.
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President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, met Monday with a delegation of Jewish leaders from around the world led by president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), Mikhael Mirilashvili. EAJC Chairman of the Board, Aaron Frenkel, and Head of the Mikhael Mirilashvili CIS Rabbinical Council and Chief Rabbi of Russia, Beryl Lazar, also took part in the summit.

Police in Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, France, are investigating a violent robbery and attack last Monday of a Jewish family. The four attackers were Muslim, and the victim says they targeted his home because he was Jewish.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Tuesday that a Spanish museum that acquired a priceless, Nazi-looted painting in 1992 is the work’s rightful owner, and not the survivors of the Jewish woman who surrendered it 80 years ago to escape the Holocaust.

The following is an unedited response to a YWN article published on Chol Hamoed, detailing a fiasco at the “A Different Pesach Program” in Orlando.
Alan Sakowitz, a guest at the program, writes it was “one of the best Pesachs ever”.

Assistant to President Trump, Jason D. Greenblatt travelled to Poway, California, Wednesday. Greenblatt went on behalf of the Trump Administration, and to relay their heartfelt sorrow for Poway’s loss, following the horrific shooting attack this past Shabbos at the Chabad House in Poway.

Senate Democrats are stinging from a trio of high-profile failures to recruit candidates who could help reclaim the majority, including Stacey Abrams’ announcement that she would pass up a U.S.
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A Bernie Sanders’ adviser was enraged by a video of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman asking Hagaon HaRav Berel Povarsky for a Bracha for President Donald Trump’s re-election.
Matt Duss, a foreign policy adviser for the Jewish Senator from Vermont, took exception to the video which was recently posted to Twitter.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
Those who grew up in the nineteen fifties remember it well. The fear throughout the country was palpable. True, polio epidemics had been in the United States since 1894, but the epidemic was never so virulent.
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A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.