Twitter suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts Friday that the website said were violating its platform rules.
The accounts were part of a social media strategy developed by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign to create an online following – or at least the appearance of one.
The plan was not OK with Twitter, which created rules in September to prevent Russian interference in the 2020 election. Friday’s mass suspension was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
“We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” Twitter spokesman Brenden Lee told The Washington Post in an email.

Twenty-eight U.S. residents flown home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship are infected with coronavirus and health officials expect to see more positive cases among the evacuated passengers in coming days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
The passengers from the ship, along with three infected people previously returned from Wuhan, China, brings the total number of evacuees with the virus in the U.S. to 31. Another 13 people in the U.S. either picked up the infection by traveling to China or from close contact with a family member who had been in China.

Rav Alexander Sender of Zholkov (~1660-1737). He was the son of Rav Ephraim Zalman Shor, Magid of Lvov, and was orphaned as an infant. In 1704, Rav Alexander Sender went to live in Zholkov (Zolkiew) where he remained for the rest of his life, devoting himself to study and writing and earning his living working in a distillery. He was the author of Tevuos Shor, first published in 1733, on shechita and kashrus. He was a great-grandnephew of Rav Ephraim Zalman Shor, the author of a sefer by the same name, Tevuos Shor, a condensation of the Beis Yosef.[27 Shvat, according Hamodia 2006]
Rav Emanuel of Preshedvorz (1802-1865). Successor to his father, the Rebbe Reb Yeshayale (d. 1831).

Gov. Phil Murphy disclosed Saturday he has a tumor on his kidney that is 90 percent likely to be cancerous and he will soon undergo surgery, NJ.com reports.
Murphy, 62, told NJ Advance Media that doctors caught it at an early stage and have “complete confidence” they’ll be able to fully remove the tumor. He said he does not expect he’ll have to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment.

U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said on Thursday that suspects, even those not charged with a crime, should undergo tolerance training to push against any bigoted beliefs they might hold.
“We should never ever let a defendant or even a suspect who isn’t charged with a crime—we should never let that suspect or defendant go unless they are forced to undergo a tolerance program,” he told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations summit in Jerusalem.
“When you catch a suspect that is being radicalized, we as the law-enforcement community have a priceless opportunity to intervene in that young man’s life,” he continued. “Why would we pass that up? It doesn’t have to be a felon.”

A far-right, viciously antisemitic website that made headlines last November when it was revealed to have received media accreditation from the White House has been kicked off the YouTube platform.
TruNews, founded by Pastor Rick Wiles, was permanently banned from YouTube on Thursday, after repeatedly violating the website’s rules regarding hate speech.
US Jewish leaders welcomed the ban on the outlet, which actively promotes a diet of Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Jonathan Greenblatt — CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — said on Twitter that he hoped other social media platforms would follow YouTube’s example by removing TruNews-related accounts.

Bernie Sanders faces a test of his front-runner status in the Democratic presidential race on Saturday in Nevada, where voters will consider an unsettled field of candidates as they search for a challenger to take on President Donald Trump.
Sanders, a self-identified democratic socialist senator from Vermont, has surged to the top of opinion polls nationally and in Nevada after strong performances in the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire earlier this month.
While Sanders’ rivals will try to blunt his momentum in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, they each face significant challenges of their own.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign says it raised more than $14 million in the 10 days before the Nevada caucuses Saturday.
The campaign said the haul more than doubled its initial goal of $7 million in the days leading into the Silver State’s nominating contest, where polls had shown Warren consistently trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Warren saw her numbers slip after her third- and fourth-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively, but she enjoyed a fundraising surge after a strong debate performance in Las Vegas this week in which she went on the offensive against her rivals, chiefly billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

Israeli authorities on Shabbos ordered to put some 90 high school students in isolation after it transpired that the children might have come in contact with tourists from South Korea believed to be infected with coronavirus.
At least 30 of the students are understood to reside in the southern city of Beersheba while the other 60 are from the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Haim.
The move if part of the Israeli government’s efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic in the Jewish state.
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New hit song “Laasos” from Yingerlich performed live at the 2020 OJPAC Appreciation Event by lead vocalist/guitarist Moishy Schwartz and child soloist Yanky Green.
‎לעשות רצונך אלוקי חפצתי
‎ווייל וואס דער אייבערשטער הייסט
‎ווייל וואס דער אייבערשטער זאגט
‎אזוי, נאר אזוי וויל איך טון
Event Music: Arranged by Moishy Schwartz Production, and joined by Moishy Glick (keys), Meir Loffler (Percussions), and Meyer Rosenbaum (Flute).
Postproduction: Shloimy Wechter & BYG, Mixed and mastered by Shloimy Wechter.
Filmed and edited: Shmily Steinberg/Shoot Studios.
Still shots: Moshe Grunfeld.
The song was first recorded by Yingerlich Choir and composed by Hershy Wienberger.