by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com
Today, the President is facing an impeachment process of the House of Representatives.  Shortly after 9:00 AM, House Democrats will convene to adopt the rules for the impeachment debate. 
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Yosef David, a frum Jew from London who works as a social worker, took on an almost impossible challenge before the recent elections in the UK. Registering as a candidate for the right-wing Brexit Party, he tried to win Jeremy Corbyn’s seat in the Islington North constituency in London, which has elected a Labour candidate in every election since 1937.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) shot an armed terrorist who was seen to be approaching the Gaza border fence by infrared cameras in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening.
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Chareidi protesters once again arrived at Yehezkel Street in Jerusalem where work on the Light-Rail system is currently underway to develop a new line that will pass directly through the neighborhood of Meah Shearim and provide service to thousands of Charedim, many of whom rely on public transportation to get around the city.

On Sunday December 15, 2019 at approximately 8:45 PM, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a burglary in progress at the Forest Park Estates complex on Anawana Lake Road in the Town of Thompson.
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Thousands of Lubavitcher Chassidim who were marking their annual “Yud Tes Kislev” Event at Kfar Chabad were joined by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tuesday night.
Netanyahu can be seen on the attached video leading the crowd with “Ufaratzta”, clapping his hands and mouthing the words.

The jewish community in Melbourne began the first major Siyum HaShas in the world. On Monday night more than a thousand people sat down to a three course dinner in the Pullman hotel.
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The NYPD is looking for multiple suspects wanted in a string of violent robberies in Flatbush / Gravesend over the past few weeks. In some incidents the suspects punched their victims in the face, other times they displayed knives.
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It was cold in Jersey City on Wednesday, but it seemed like the whole neighborhood was standing outside. As I walked down the road towards the grocery store, the first thing that struck me was the eerie silence.
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Liad Gold, the older sister of Naama Issachar, who’s been sitting in a Russian jail for eight months and has been sentenced to a 7.5 year prison for a minor drug charge, visited her sister for the first time in six months on Sunday.