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Following Tuesday’s shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, the New York Police Department has established a unit to deal with extremism.
In an announcement on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism (REME) unit will be “focused on any trends, and any signs of racially and ethnically motivated extremism” and “will directly take on the hate groups that are trying to spread in this country and pose a threat to so many communities.”

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rabbi Mordechai Kokis zt”l.
Rav Mordechai was a yungerman from Bais Medrash Govoah in Lakewood who had battled illness for the last couple of years.
A talmid chochom and yorei Shomayim who possessed extraordinary emunah and bitachon, Rav Mordechai inspired thousands with his avodas Hashem and reinkeit, before his illness and throughout his medical ordeal.
When others might have been weakened and dispirited, Rav Mordechai seemed to just keep going, learning Torah, being mechazeik others, and constantly speaking of the chesed of the Ribono Shel Olam.

Reb Yehuda HaNasi, son of Rav Shimon ben Gamliel, and redactor of the Mishna (120-192 CE)
Rav Avraham Ibn Ezra (the second), author of Batei Kenesiyos (1760).
Rav Ze’ev of Zhitomer, the Ohr Hamei’ir (1799)
Rav Eliezer Fishel of Brody (1811)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The always-prolific Tweeter-in-chief appears to have hit a new record. The president’s @realDonaldTrump account had tweeted and retweeted 109 times by late afternoon Thursday, marking what could be his most active day on the platform yet. The avalanche came as the House Judiciary Committee pressed toward a historic vote to approve articles […]

The deadly attack at a kosher supermarket here that left six people, including the two suspects, dead this week is being investigated as domestic terrorism, officials announced Thursday.
“We believe the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people, as well as the hatred of law enforcement,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said at a news conference.
Officials said surveillance video indicated the market had been deliberately marked, raising the specter that the shooting was another in a growing national pattern of anti-Semitic attacks.

LONDON (AP) – Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says Britain’s election result is “very disappointing” for his party, but he is resisting pressure to step down right away. Corbyn says the divisive issue of Brexit has “contributed to the result.” Labour is losing seats to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, which is on course […]