The Dushinsky Chassidus in the United States is mourning the sudden petirah of Reb Shlomo Chaim Felsenstein z”l, a devoted chassid known for his boundless acts of tzedakah and chesed, and for his extraordinary archival work capturing decades of Jewish life through his lens. He passed away suddenly from cardiac arrest at the age of 56.
Born in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Yerushalayim, Reb Shlomo Chaim was widely admired for his warm personality, generosity, and deep dedication to the tzibbur. He was a man of conversation, heart, and depth, who left a lasting impression on everyone he met.

IDIOT ALERT: Sen. Schumer, as Pres. Trump was announcing PEACE DEAL between Israel & Iran: “No President should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into war.”

Iran’s foreign minister says that, as of now, there is no official agreement on the cessation of violence between them and Israel, but Iran will stop its aggression if Israel does first.

Following its June 13 military strikes on Iranian targets, Israel initiated a covert psychological warfare campaign aimed at destabilizing Iran’s leadership, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing sources with knowledge of the operation.
According to the report, the operation’s intent was to instill fear and uncertainty at the highest levels of the Iranian regime. Senior figures were directly threatened as part of the strategy to fracture the cohesion of Tehran’s ruling elite.
Israeli intelligence agents, fluent in Farsi, reportedly reached out to more than 20 Iranian officials on their private mobile phones. The purpose of the calls was clear: issue an ultimatum to abandon their allegiance to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or face the threat of assassination.

HaRav Moshe Chaim Schneider, a close talmid of HaTzaddik HaRav Dov Kook, went to his home in Tiveria on Sunday and showed him a photocopy from the ancient sefer ‘Kli Paz’ written by the Mekubal HaRav Shmuel Shmuel Laniado, z’tl, who lived about 500 years ago and was known as ‘Baal HaKeilim’—after his seferim: ‘Kli Paz,’ ‘Kli Chemdah,’ ‘Kli Yakar,’ and others. HaRav Shmuel Laniado, who lived in Aram Tzova—Aleppo, Syria, wrote a comprehensive commentary on Sefer Yeshayahu. The original manuscript was printed after his passing, about 400 years ago, and became known as ‘Kli Paz.’ The passage presented to HaRav Kook aroused tremendous excitement, as it remarkably predicts events currently splashed across international headlines.

HaRav Arie Kovalevcki, the Rosh Yeshivah of Hadras Melech, a yeshivah in Bnei Brak for bochurim from Spanish-speaking countries, went this week to the kollel of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein together with his talmidim. The kollel, normally in Holon, is being temporarily housed in the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak. After Mincha, the Rosh Yeshivah and his talmidim gathered around HaRav Zilberstein, who was wrapped in a tallis and tefillin, since his minhag since the war began is to learn all day with tefillin on his head, and for Mincha, he donned a tallis. The Rosh Yeshivah told HaRav Zilberstein that the parents of the bochurim are nervous because of the war, and some of them want their sons to return home as soon as possible.

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homelands, lifting for now a court order requiring they get a chance to challenge the deportations. The high court majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices joined a scathing dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin suggested third-country deportations could restart soon.

A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack. The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith’s estate for his pain and suffering. The judge presiding over the civil trial dismissed Erin Smith’s wrongful-death claim against Walls-Kaufman before jurors began deliberating last week. U.S.

MEANWHILE IN TEHRAN: Initial reports of an IAF targeted assassination airstrike against a senior official.