Paris – Two alleys that make up a city square in Paris were named for the three children killed in an attack by an Islamist gunman on a Jewish school in Toulouse. Mohamed Merah killed a teacher, Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and two of his children, Arie and Gabriel, ages 6 and 3, and Miriam Monsonego, [...]

Amid protests, Religious Affairs Ministry says there's no law to bar Eliezer Berland from Lag B'Omer ceremony, but signals it will draw up rules to exclude him in the future

 ZAKA To Distribute Tens Of Thousands Of Bottles Of Water On Lag B’Omer In MeronZAKA and the Meron branch of Meuchedet are preparing for the Lag B’Omer operation, and following the expected weather on Wednesday and Thursday, ‘sharav’ heatwave conditions, the two organizations will distribute tens of thousands of bottles of cold water.

The rabbi of Chabad of Poway, who was wounded in last month’s deadly shooting attack at the synagogue near San Diego, performed an impromptu bar mitzvah ceremony in the office of his plastic surgeon, Chabad.org reported on Tuesday.
When Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein discovered that Dr. Yale Kadesky, the son of Holocaust survivors, had never put on tefillin, he visited the doctor in his San Diego area office and helped him don the Jewish prayer item, a mitzvah performed by Jewish males ages 13 and above.
Dr. Kadesky has been treating the rabbi, who suffered injuries to both his hands and lost a finger in the April 27th attack.
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Tallahassee, FL – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is going to Israel with a large contingent of business leaders later this week. That’s not surprising, especially as the GOP woos Jewish voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. But DeSantis also has announced plans to hold a meeting with the state’s three independently elected Cabinet [...]

Tiveria Mayor Kobi Tears Down Pashkavilim Against Recruitment Of Girls Into The IDFOnce again, Tiveria Mayor Ron Kobi is in the news in connection with activities against the city’s chareidi tzibur.
It is reported on Tuesday that Kobi and his confidant Eli Elbaum arrived in the city’s chareidi Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood and began tearing down pashkavilim opposed to the recruitment of females into the IDF.

A passenger's cardiac arrest left Bar Azoulay, an Israeli backpacker flying from New Delhi to Bucharest, expecting Iranian authorities 'to just take me'

New York – One of Tesla’s former biggest supporters on Wall Street said on Tuesday the electric carmaker’s shares could fall to $10 from nearly $200 now, if tensions with China escalate and sap demand for its cars. Shares of Tesla edged down, heading for their fifth straight session of losses, and bonds weakened, after [...]

Gov. DeSantis to meet with Agriculture Commissioner and others thousands of miles from Florida, which may not be in line with state's transparency laws

Indianapolis – A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti and lighting fires outside a suburban Indianapolis synagogue. U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler says 21-year-old Nolan Brewer of Eminence was sentenced Monday evening for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla. Minkler announced Tuesday that Brewer [...]

PM Netanyahu Withdraws Support For Frum Candidate For State ComptrollerJust minutes before the deadline for submitting candidacy for the position of State Comptroller, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu removed his support from chareidi candidate Michal Rosenbaum.

The majority of Israelis believe that their Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, should not be legally protected from criminal prosecution, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
Israel’s Walla news found that 56 percent of Israelis oppose legislation that would enable Netanyahu to receive immunity as he faces possible indictment in three separate corruption cases. 33 percent support his immunity while 11 percent said they had no opinion.
Netanyahu’s Likud party has denied reports that it is conditioning coalition talks upon to passing of such a law.
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Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that three women who controlled the process by which prospective buyers applied for high demand cooperative apartments at the Luna Park Housing Corporation, a Mitchell-Lama complex in Coney Island, have been named in a 78-count indictment in which they are charged with conspiracy, grand larceny, forgery [...]

San Francisco – A San Francisco journalist whose equipment was seized in a police raid will get back his property, a police attorney said Tuesday at a court hearing, but that did not resolve larger issues in the case that alarmed journalism advocates. Authorities have said the May 10 raids of freelancer Bryan Carmody’s home [...]

Airline Group Predicts Another Record For Summer TravelThe airline industry’s U.S. trade group is predicting another record for summer travel.
Airlines for America forecast Tuesday that 257.4 million people will fly on U.S. carriers between June 1 and Aug.
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