Jewish social media star Chaya Raichik, better known as “Libs of TikTok,” and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a war of words in the Capitol building on Thursday after Raichik filed an ethics complaint against the leftist congresswoman. The ethics complaint alleges that AOC lied about Raichik during a hearing in which AOC said her work “culminated in a real-life harassment and bomb threat to the Boston Children’s Hospital.” Raichik hand-delivered the ethics complaint to AOC’s office, but the congresswoman wasn’t there at the time. However, she met her later in the building and posed for a picture with her before initiating a direct confrontation. I “just delivered an ethics complaint to your office because you lied about me in a committee hearing,” Raichik told her. “Uh-huh.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi, HaRav Yitzchak Yosef visited Flatbush Hatzolah headquarters on Thursday night. Rav Yosef who is currently on a brief trip to the United States visiting Yeshivos and Batei Midrashim in Brooklyn, felt it was important to devote some of his time to giving Chizuk to the volunteers of Hatzolah. A large number of Hatzolah volunteers are learning Daf Hayomi together, and a Siyum had been planned for Thursday night. When Rav Yosef learned of the Hatzolah Siyum , he requested to attend this momentous occasion. Well over 100 Hatzolah members gathered to greet the Chief Rabbi, who arrived in a motorcade of NYPD and Flatbush Shomrim. Flatbush Hatolah Posek HaRav David Cohen was at the garage to greet him, and was photographed bending down to kiss the Chief Rabbi’s hand.

CNN reported Thursday night that Donald Trump’s indictment includes 34 separate counts, all of them relating to the falsification of business records. “I am told by my sources that this is 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is probably a lot of charges involving each document, each thing that was submitted as a separate count and a couple of matters,” CNN law enforcement analysts John Miller said. “So he would surrender to the district attorney’s office. Now, presumably that would happen at the district attorney’s office. He would be taken upstairs to the detective squad. He’d be fingerprinted and photographed for mug shot. They would be given a conference room because remember, nothing is the same here.

Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman on Wednesday made his annual visit to the Tiv HaMatzos matza bakery, run by ba’al chessed and askan Reb Aharon Yosef Kornitzer. In the course of the visit, Reb Kornitzer asked the Rosh Yeshivah, who grew up in a Chassidish home, if he eats gebrokts. “I have a whole story about this,” the Rosh Yeshivah, who is the son of law of HaGaon HaRav Shach, ztl, responded [in Yiddish]. “When I got married, HaRav Shach asked me before Pesach if I eat gebrokts and when I said he didn’t, he said that doesn’t eat gebrokts either. “On Chol Hamoed Pesach, I visted the Chazon Ish. After I spoke to him, I went to the other room, which served as a shul and I met the Steipler, z’tl, there.

Supposedly socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders blew his stack when Republican Markwayne Mullins accused him of making millions of dollars in the free market – and very not socialist – US economy. “Well, let me respond,” Sanders said after the attack from Mullins. “The senator did mention my name, I think. And I think you’ve got an all-time record here. You made more misstatements in a shorter period of time than I have ever heard.” “Please correct me,” Mullins fired back. “Well, if I’m worth $8 million. That’s good news to me. I’m not aware of it. That’s a lie. All right,” Sanders said. “Part of public records,” Mullin replied. “You’re probably looking at some phony right-wing internet stuff. It ain’t true,” Sanders said. “You should read beyond that.

Jewish music superstar Avraham Fried performed in Binyanei HaUmah on Tuesday evening. Prior to the concert, Fried fulfilled a dream for a Chareidi fan who is suffering from a serious illness by meeting with him personally and singing for him and his young son, Kikar H’Shabbat reported. Fried blessed the choleh with a Birchas Cohen for a refuah sheleimah. Ba’al HaChessed Shuki Brif arranged the meeting and the Rachshei Lev chessed organization provided the “Dream Ambulance.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Israel successfully launched the new Ofek 13 spy satellite into space in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) confirmed. A Shavet 2 launcher shot the satellite into orbit from the Palmachim Airbase in central Israel at about 2 a.m. “The ‘Ofek-13’ satellite is an observation satellite with advanced capabilities,” the Defense Ministry stated. “The satellite successfully entered orbit, has begun transmitting data, and completed preliminary tests.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and other officials joined with community leaders for a pre-Passover Security Briefing at NYPD Headquarters on Wednesday March 29, 2023. Commissioner Sewell spoke about public safety and the strong relationship between the NYPD and the Jewish community. Commissioner Sewell stated there will be an increased police presence at synagogues and gave special acknowledgement to Inspector Richie Taylor for his leadership as the Commanding Officer of Community Affairs Outreach. Chief Chaplain Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass spoke about the miracle of Pesach and the perseverance of the Jewish people.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other senior government officials on Tuesday evening slammed US President Joe Biden’s flagrant interference in Israeli domestic affairs. Speaking to the press on Tuesday while waiting for Air Force One at the Raleigh-Durham airport, Biden responded to a question about the “health of democracy” in Israel. “Like many strong supporters of Israel I’m very concerned,” Biden said. “I’m concerned that they get this straight. They cannot continue down this road and I’ve sort of made that clear. Hopefully, the prime minister will act in a way that he’ll try to work out some genuine compromise but that remains to be seen.” Reporter: “Are you inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House, sir? Do you believe he’ll be coming to Washington?” Biden: “No.

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump somehow managed to mix up a proposed trade deal called NAFTA with the military alliance called NATO. The former president, who is just four years younger than the cognitively deficient Joe Biden, boasted that countries learned “not to mess around” with him on trade deals. “Did they fear me? I suspect they did,” Trump said. “Putin said, ‘Man, you are killing me, especially about Nord Stream.’ And I stopped it. It was stopped cold. And I told other countries, ‘If you go into the Nord Stream, you are not going to do any business with the United States of America,’ meaning rip us off on trade because a lot of them have ripped us off. I made a lot of great deals on trade, though.