Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing. Trump pushed back Friday accusing Democrats of launching a disinformation campaign. “Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa. Hoax number 7!” Trump tweeted. The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, said Thursday that the briefing last week focused on Russia’s efforts to influence the 2020 election and sow discord in the American electorate.

Eliezer Berland, who was arrested last week on charges of exploitation, money laundering and tax evasion, is heard telling his assistant, who was also arrested, to ask for $20,000 from someone who requested a bracha from him for wealth, on a new recording revealed on Thursday on Chareidim10. “Yechezkel Shraga ben Chaya wants great wealth,” the assistant is heard saying. “Yechezkel Shraga ben Chaya should donate $20,000,” Berland responds. “You’ll be zohech to enormous wealth. You’ll be zocheh to be wealthier than Rothschild, than Lev Leviev, than Gutnick. You’ll be zocheh to wealth that was never seen in the world. Hashem will bring down all the wealth through you.

Videos were released today by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of the hours-long Jersey City shootout that left one police officer and three civilians dead late last year. Four innocent people, including a veteran Jersey City police detective and father of five, died in the hail of gunfire that place on Dec. 10. Most of the victims were found inside the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Boulevard during what officials have described as a hate-fueled terror spree. The U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the head of the local FBI have said that the bomb found in the van of alleged domestic terrorists Francine Graham and David Anderson could have killed or maimed people up to five football fields away.

Thanks to alert Shomrim Volunteers, three thugs who had just robbed a Yeshiva boy at knifepoint were arrested, Thursday afternoon. It happened at around 5:00PM, when two suspects approached the teenage victim on Avenue L and East 14th Street displayed a knife and demanded his wallet and other valuables. The victim complied, and handed over his wallet, at which point the two suspects fled on foot. The victim immediately called Flatbush Shomrim and the NYPD, who began canvassing the area. Around 15 minutes later, a Flatbush Shomrim volunteer noticed three black males pacing nervously in the park on Avenue K and East 17th Street. The NYPD was notified, and they began to respond there with the victim to identify the men. At that point, the three suspects fled on foot.

The liberal democrats running New York State now have innocent blood on their hands, thanks to their insane bail reform laws. According to a report by LoHud, 25-year-old Blanchard Glaudin had been released free on a previous rape charge when he murdered 53-year-old Sandra Wilson inside the Finkelstein Library in Monsey earlier this week. Glaudin had been released under the new bail reforms after being accused of trying to rape a woman at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in November. Nyack Justice Robert Knoebel had set Glaudin’s bail at $100,000 and he was held as Gaudin Blanchard in the county jail from Dec. 20 until Dec. 26, until a County Court judge released him without bail under the criminal justice reforms.

Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 40 months (3 years and 4 months) in prison Thursday on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress. The action in federal court comes amid Trump’s unrelenting defense of his longtime confidant that has led to a mini-revolt inside the Justice Department and allegations the president has interfered in the case. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said during the hearing that Stone’s use of social media to stoke public sentiment against the prosecution and the court was intended to reach a wide audience, including using a photo of Jackson with crosshairs superimposed. “This is intolerable to the administration of justice,” Jackson said.

After two and a half weeks of quarantine on the Diamond Princess, 11 Israeli passengers who tested negative for the virus disembarked from the ship on Thursday morning and were greeted by Israeli health ministry officials wearing protective gear. The health officials led them to a Japanese military bus that drove them to the private jet waiting to fly them home to Israel. After entering the Japanese military bus and sitting down, the Israelis began singing “Am Yisrael Chai” – with their mouths covered by masks of course. Earlier on Thursday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that a fourth Israeli tested positive for the coronavirus and will be transferred to a Japanese military hospital for treatment.

The US defense agency responsible for secure communications for the US president and other high-level officials said social security numbers and other personal data in its network may have been “compromised,” in a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to potential victims. The Defense Information Systems Agency, which calls itself a combat support agency of the Department of Defense on its web site, employs 8,000 military and civilian employees. The letter says that between May and July 2019, personal data may have been compromised “in a data breach on a system hosted by,” the agency. (AP)

From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night that threatened to scramble even further the party’s urgent quest to defeat President Donald Trump. The former New York City mayor was forced to defend his divisive record on race, gender and Wall Street in his debate-stage debut, while Sanders, appearing in his ninth of the 2020 primary season, tried to beat back pointed questions about his health and his embrace of democratic socialism.

Thousands of secular Jews began putting on tefillin recently as part of “Operation Ron” – an initiative named after Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai “in honor” of his recent ban of tefillin stands outside schools, initiated by Israeli journalist Boaz Golan, according to a 0404 News report. Chabad houses around the world are reporting an increase in requests to put on tefillin. In Israel, many Israelis are also putting on tefillin with one Israeli reporting that he began to lay tefillin “after 12 years of not doing so.” Another Israeli reported that he began to put on tefillin only in protest against Huldai. Moshe Bukai, an Israeli living in the US, posted a video of himself putting on tefillin, noting that he decided to put on tefillin after years of not doing so.