Bassem Abu Labda says children set alight a guard booth on the rooftop of a prayer room; Israel Police investigating cause

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There’s just something exciting about the pre-Yom Tov rush. The hectic driving, the shopping plazas filled with cars, the packed shopping carts, the endless lines…. Sometime amid the scramble, the thought comes, We’re so lucky!  We’re all so busy, so excited, so rushed…. with the same goal: to bring the beautiful simcha of Yom Tov to our families. With just one week to go, you can literally feel the anticipation in the air.
At Kupas Yom Tov, the anticipation is at its peak.  With just one week to Yom Tov, the pressure to reach our million-dollar budget is mounting. This is the final week to raise the necessary funds to ensure hundreds of choshuve Yungerleit a befitting Yom Tov.

Jerusalem – Israel’s president said on Tuesday a majority of parliament members had advised him to have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu form a government after the April 9 election, effectively ensuring his nomination. In office for the past decade, Netanyahu won a fifth term despite an announcement by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s in February that [...]

The crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates is showing early signs of money trouble as donors sit on the sidelines to see how the contest unfolds, signaling a drawn-out primary battle lies ahead.
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Buenos Aires – Three members of the gang, including its leader, suspected of involvement in the home invasion attack on Argentina’s chief rabbi were arrested in three raids in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Buenos Aires city police also recovered objects belonging to Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich, including a pen with Hebrew words in a box [...]

Amended numbers released by elections committee bring Netanyahu's party to parity with Blue and White; results to be presented to president Wednesday

Paris – The fire that tore through Notre-Dame cathedral was probably caused by accident, French prosecutors said on Tuesday after firefighters doused the last flames in the ruins overnight. More than 400 firemen were needed to tame the inferno that consumed the roof and collapsed the spire of the eight-centuries-old cathedral. They worked through the [...]