There was shock among mispallalim of the Tiferes Yisrael Shul in Tzefas, as a Sefer Torah valued at $70,000 was discovered missing on the first day of Yom Tov.
Mispallalim opened the Aron Kodesh in the Shul located on Derech Chassidim Street in Tzefas’ Old City, and found the abandoned Eitz Chaim in the aron while the parchment, the actual Sefer Torah, was gone.

First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable.
But President Donald Trump’s legal team, through a combination of bluster, legal precedent and shifting tactics, managed to protect their client from a potentially perilous in-person interview during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation .

Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago.

The snowy Mount Hermon site was painted white on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach in Israel, having placed a fresh coat of white powder on the ski resort.
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The Kaliver Rebbe Shlita has been showing signs if increased weakness over the past two weeks, preventing the rebbe from attending Yomtov tefilos in his beis medrash.
There is much concern among chassidim and others, as it is reported the rebbe fell at home two weeks ago, and his condition has deteriorated since; preventing him from bearing weight on the injured leg.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to do damage control on her credibility Friday, insisting that she hadn’t intentionally misled the American public about FBI Director James Comey’s firing despite telling the special counsel that her claim that “countless” agents had lost confidence in him was not founded on anything.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Friday for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as Congress escalates its investigation of President Donald Trump.
“It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward,” said Rep.

President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at current and former aides who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, insisting the deeply unflattering picture they painted of him and the White House was “total [EXPLETIVE REMOVED].”

Elizabeth Warren is urging the Democratic-controlled House to “initiate impeachment proceedings” against President Donald Trump.
The Massachusetts Senator, who the President often refers to as “Pocahontas”, reacted on Twitter to the report by special counsel Robert Mueller released Thursday.

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are in Wyoming for Pesach.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the couple arrived at Cheyenne Regional Airport in President Donald Trump’s personal Boeing 757 Thursday before heading to Saratoga, a resort town about 150 miles away (population: 1,686).