Rav Shlomo Kanievsky Continues Global Campaign in US for Kiryas Melech  Will SpeConnecting to Greatness: Rav Shlomo Kanievsky Continues Global Campaign in US for Kiryas Melech
Will Spend Shabbos in Passaic
 

Rav Shlomo Kanievsky, currently on a whirlwind trip to the United States in an effort to save his yeshiva, Yeshiva Kiryas Melech in Bnei Brak, will spend this coming Shabbos, Parshas Behar, in the Passaic, NJ, community.

Administration considering using national security waiver after lawmakers have blocked transfers in protest over Yemen campaign, Khashoggi murder

Washington – The Atlantic hurricane season is off to yet another early start, but U.S. weather officials say it should be a near normal year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday predicted nine to 15 named storms. It says four to eight of them will become hurricanes and two to four of those [...]

 Chabad House And Nearby Yeshiva Both Defaced With Anti-Semitic SlursHate has reared its ugly face again in NYC, this time in Staten Island.
Hateful messages were found scrawled on the two Jewish locations.
The words “synagogue of Satan” were found painted on the Chabad of Staten Island Shul, located on Harold Street.

In 2016, the United States Treasury under the Barrack Obama Administration announced plans to replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the $20 USD bill with noted abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. The redesigned bill was scheduled to release next year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. Tubman was a firm supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.
Now, the Trump Administration is postponing the currency’s launch for nearly a decade as announced by the secretary of treasury Steve Mnuchin this past Wednesday.

Trump says he doesn't think extra troops needed, but 'we'll see what happens with Iran'

Washington – The FBI, focused intently for years on combating terrorism from abroad, is turning more attention to home-grown, U.S. domestic violent extremists, a senior FBI counterterrorism official said on Thursday. Arrests related to domestic terrorism in the current fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, are at 66, exceeding international terrorism arrests, now at [...]

Washington – U.S. officials say the Trump administration is considering an emergency declaration that would allow it to make a new arms shipment to Saudi Arabia without the approval of Congress. Two officials say a decision on invoking a national security waiver in the Arms Control Act to bypass congressional review of proposed sales to [...]

 Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Holding Scissors With Eyes Buried In SeferLook at this image closely, and notice that the Gadol Hador, Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky is holding a pair of scissors.
On Lag B’Omer, as is customary, many people give their three-year-old children their first haircut (Chaluka).

Justice Department officials on Thursday announced 17 additional felony charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A grand jury in Alexandria, Va., returned the superseding indictment charging Assange with conspiring with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning to obtain, receive and disclose “national defense information,” in violation of the Espionage Act.
Assange is also charged with publishing a select range of the classified documents that revealed the names of low-level, local sources utilized by the U.S. government, including Afghan and Iraqi nationals, as well as journalists, human rights activists, and religious leaders.

Almost all homes in Moshav Mevo Modi'im destroyed or damaged by flames, according to report; 'we'll have to rebuild,' local official says

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Theresa May is expected to announce the date of her departure from thePrime Minister position on Friday, senior cabinet ministers have told the BBC.
Sources say they expect the PM to give a timetable for her successor to be chosen, with 10 June likely to be the start of the official leadership race.
May has been under pressure to resign, after an angry backlash by her own MPs against her latest Brexit plan.
Read more at BBC.
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London – A women’s-only pond in North London will now be open to transgender swimmers, which will prevent Orthodox Jews from using the pond. A group of haredi Orthodox women are planning to fight the decision, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Under Jewish law, women cannot be dressed immodestly in front of men. Trans women [...]

The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre still wants to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, his lawyer said Thursday.
Judy Clarke told a judge she hopes the case against Robert Bowers can be resolved without a trial. The 46-year-old truck driver wasn’t in court.
Authorities say Bowers killed 11 people and wounded seven at Tree of Life synagogue last October. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in US history. He has previously pleaded not guilty.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Hate speech written on a shul wall was discovered early Thursday morning in Staten Island.
The words “synagogue of Satan” were visible from Bradley Avenue, written on the Chabad of Staten Island shul, located on Harold Street. Across the street, the letters “SOS” were written with spray paint on the Yeshiva Zichron Paltiel of Staten Island, referencing the aforementioned phrase.
Mendy Katzman, the associate director of Chabad of Staten Island, said that police believe the graffiti was written around midnight.
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Brooklyn, NY – Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro today announced the arrest by FDNY Fire Marshals of a Brooklyn man in connection with three vehicle fires over a span of three months from March to May 2019. Jonathan Perez, 28, is alleged to have ignited three vehicles in Brooklyn. Fire Marshals responded to each of [...]

 Poway Chabad Hachnosas Sefer Torah Dedicated For Shooting Victim Lori Kaye H”YDSeveral hundred people gathered Wednesday night at the Chabad of Poway synagogue and Jewish community center in California to dedicate a Sefer Torah in memory of murdered community member Lori Gilbert-Kaye H”YD, and mark the holiday of Lag BaOmer.

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