The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday, a move that is likely to raise concerns that President Donald Trump and his allies may be using the powers of the government to go after their opponents.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com
The president misspoke.  He stated that they were going to build a wall in Colorado which borders on New Mexico, but not Mexico. 
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The IDF has once again demolished the home of the Palestinian terrorist who murdered IDF soldier Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky HY”D, who was a member of the brigade’s elite Duvdevan reconnaissance force.

Mrs. Efrat Hazut, who was seriously injured in a Zikim Beach lightning strike during a Chol Hamoed Sukkos outing has B’chasdei Hashem been released from the hospital.
Efrat, 21, was with family members during Chol Hamoed Sukkos on an outing when lightning struck during the early afternoon hours.

Police responding to a call in the Meah Shearim area of the capital on Wednesday evening were targeted by extremists who hurled stones at them.
To their good fortune, the usual crowd did not gather, and they managed to enter the building to which they were responding.
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According to the Honenu organization, mispallalim were attacked in Jerusalem’s Old City on motzei Simchas Torah as they exited the Churva Shul. The attackers pushed border police and attacked mispallalim who exited the shul.

A woman was shoved head-first into the side of a New York City subway train Wednesday in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack.
The video below shows a man hopping up and down and moving about the platform at DeKalb Avenue station in Brooklyn around 7:20PM when he appears to suddenly shove someone on the crowded platform.

Temperatures across Israel continue to drop, as it appears summer is behind us and we are experiencing a first taste of winter during the autumn period. There are storm and flood warnings in effect for the coming weekend in Eretz Yisrael.
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More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

The chief rabbi of the main Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe says that a resurgence of anti-Semitism on the continent “poses an existential threat to the Jewish community.”
The warning by Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmit was sounded as the Conference of European Rabbis awarded the Moshe Rosen Award on Thursday in Rome to the founder of the Catholic charity Sant’Egidio, Andrea Riccardi.