A crowd is outside 770 holding Moshiach flags as they await Hamas supporters and a group of Neturei Karta animals (Muslims dressed as Chasidic Jews).  

Lubavitcher yeshiva orders its bochurim to stay away from tonight’s protests by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protestors in front of 770, urging them to stay in the bais medrash and learn instead.  

New Jersey Democratic candidate for Gov. Josh Gottheimer: “The discrimination against the Jewish community [in Linden, NJ] is outrageous… it has to stop.”

A 43-year-old man was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Avenue N and East 13th Street. Flatbush Hatzolah transported him to Maimonides Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The tzibur is asked to daven for Yitzchok Ben Sara for a Refuah Sheleima

4 dead, 6 hospitalized after driver plows car into a daycare in Chatham, Illinois The driver is in police custody at the hospital. It’s unclear if the act was intentional.

A special election will be held on May 20 to replace State Senator Simcha Felder, who resigned after winning a City Council seat. Sam Sutton, co-leader of the Sephardic Community Federation, will run as the Democratic nominee, while longtime Republican district leader Carl (Nachman) Caller will represent the GOP. The race will determine South Brooklyn’s next State Senator.

President Trump establishes the ‘FEMA Review Council’ to return emergency response authority to State Emergency Managers.