JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel. The military said Saturday air defenses intercepted two of the missiles. There have been no reports of injuries and no Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. Cross-border violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in […]

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For some, it began in a hotel lobby. For others, it began at the Veitzener Cheder. 
That’s right – Shas for Shidduchim is back!
Shas for Shidduchim is a campaign created by Chicago Chesed Fund to give relatives, friends and singles themselves, a meaningful way to bring about shidduchim. Now in its third year, this national campaign gives donors an opportunity to sponsor a daf of gemara in the merit that someone they know find their zivug. 
On Tu B’Shvat, February 10th, 2020 we will do it again! 
On this auspicious day, our lomdim will once again gather to complete the entire Shas (all 2,711 blatt of gemara!) Bezras Hashem, harnessing the tremendous power of Limud HaTorah will be a zchus for all of Klal Yisroel to find their zivugim. 

The announcement last month by U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo that Israeli settlements are not illegal was either warmly welcomed or hotly rejected, depending on how you interpret international law.
Indeed, recently 107 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Pompeo expressing “strong disagreement” with the State Department’s new policy and urged Pompeo to “reverse this policy decision immediately.”
Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS that Pompeo did a great service for Israel and for truth by stating that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not illegal.”

House Democrats move forward with impeachment, continue to lack voter support.
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Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Israel is headed to its third round of elections with the course of a year.
“Elections are coming,” Lieberman told the Yediot Achronot daily in an interview. Unity talks had reached a dead end, he said, and he had decided against empowering a narrow government because “the combination of dramatic defense and economic decisions and a narrow government is likely to create a large rift and polarization in [Israeli] society.”
On Tuesday, a meeting between Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly broke down after just 45 minutes.

Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones has filed to again run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
Real estate broker Catherine O’Shea and Will County board member Mike Fricilone have also filed to run in the Republican primary.
Fricilone told The Chicago Sun Times, “It is unfortunate that we have someone with his views and thoughts that runs.”
He said he filed “to have a credible candidate” on the ballot.
Jones, who was once a member of the American Nazi Party, received 57,885 votes, losing in 2018 against incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski, as no other Republican entered the primary in the heavily Democratic congressional district.

Julian Castro, former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary and current Democratic presidential candidate, said on Thursday that if elected, he would keep the U.S. embassy in Israel in Yerushalayim.
President Donald Trump relocated the embassy there from Tel Aviv in May 2018, just months after recognizing Yerushalayim as Israel“s capital.
“The actions of this president when it comes to Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East has been counterproductive in helping ensure a two-state solution,” Castro told JNS on a conference call for members of the media. “I believe that he made a mistake in moving the embassy to Jerusalem without making that part of a larger, negotiated peace agreement and a two-state solution.”

Racist graffiti was discovered at a New York Holocaust museum for the second time in two weeks.
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove was defaced with swastikas and other vandalism.
“It’s shocking because we’re a museum and education center,” Deborah Lom, acting director of development at the museum, told Patch on Thursday.
“And now, we’re faced with this incident right here,” she said. “That makes it even more shocking to us.”
In a statement on Thursday, the center said, “We are shocked and saddened about the appearance of this representation of Nazi ideology. Ironically, we learned about this symbol of hate appearing here on the same day we hosted a major public event on anti-Semitism.”

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The 13th Global Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi is rapidly approaching. Agudath Israel of America is working around the clock to ensure everything runs as smoothly as possible for the Siyum attendees.
The Agudah has arranged for New York Sightseeing to provide charter bus transportation for attendees coming from various locations. New York Sightseeing is a Shomer Shabbos bus company that jumped at the opportunity to facilitate transportation for one of the greatest events in recent Jewish history.
As of now, there are 12 bus routes scheduled from various communities in the New York/New Jersey area. New York Sightseeing will open new routes for other locations, if they are needed.