All new episode of The Crockpot Show on Matzav.com with special guest Simcha Leiner. Things will get tense, only slightly awkward, and kishke will definitely be eaten. In a world of breaking news, we’re taking a deeper dive into the lives and appetites of our guests. Simcha may try to live to his name, but let’s see how he fares in the face of our very own P. Lurkowitz and his sidekick Isaac Bernath.

The tzibbur is asked to please be mispallel for Yehoshua Matisyahu ben Menucha Mina, a bochur in Lakewood who a struck by a vehicle in a hit and run and is now in critical condition.
May we hear besuros tovos.
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For the first time since Zachary Baumel went missing in action in Lebanon 37 years ago, his family has a grave at which to mourn on Yom Hazikaron.
The Baumel family spent almost four decades without knowing what happened to the soldier, who disappeared during a battle near the Syrian border in the First Lebanon War. His remains were located in Syria and brought back to Israel for burial last month.
On Monday, the Baumel family went to visit Zachary’s grave in Mount Herzl military cemetery in Yerushalayim, 30 days after the burial. They were surprised to discover a great crowd awaiting them that wished to honor Zachary’s memory.
Read more at YNET.
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Yisroel and Chana Sternberg are suing Spirit Airlines alleging that a flight attendant racially discriminated against them spouted antisemitic hate towards them on a flight to Fort Lauderdale from Newark Liberty International Airport in January.
When the  couple was told they could not board with the infant car seat they had brought, even though the couple had bought an extra seat on the plane to accommodate the child,  Yisroel, who was seated separately from his wife, got up to assess the situation.

A square in the city of Petach Tikvah will be named after President Donald Trump, the city’s mayor announced.
Rami Greenberg said Monday that he decided to name the square adjacent to City Hall for the U.S. president because of “his unqualified support for the State of Israel,” the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported.
The square will be dedicated officially on July 4, Greenberg said. The mayor said he will invite the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, government ministers and public figures.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community.
The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six most populous regions—geographically representing the entire country—included Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki of Dnipro, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz of Kharkov, Rabbi Avraham Wolff of Odessa, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm of Zhitomir and Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski of Donetsk. Rabbi Moshe Asman, rabbi of the central Brodsky synagogue in Kiev, also attended.

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