A detailed report from special counsel Robert Mueller said investigators struggled with both the legal implications of investigating President Donald Trump for possible obstruction of justice, and the motives behind a range of his most alarming actions, from seeking the ouster of officials to ordering a memo that would clear his name.

An NYPD Officer was shot on Thursday afternoon.
It happened at around 4:30PM at West 187 Street and Wasdworth Avenue in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.
The officer was shot in his arm, and was in stable condition.

The Israel Air Force is currently taking part in the “largest overseas Israeli Air Force exercises” the IAF tweeted.
Watch our fighter jets fly over the snowy peaks and wide fields of Greece as part of one of the largest overseas Israeli Air Force exercises pic.twitter.com/JnpgG8jBGR
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) April 16, 2019

Checkpoints, crossings to remain shuttered from Friday morning until next Saturday, except for humanitarian and other outstanding cases

Author Susan Weingarten finds unusual and surprising recipes in her lively work that traces the origins of the mainstay sweet Passover dish and how it's eaten today

MK Moshe Gafni threatened on Thursday morning that his party would rather go back to the hustings and fight another election than back down on its demands for mass military service exemptions for yeshiva bochurim.
UTJ rejected a draft charedi enlistment law drawn up by a Defense Ministry committee convened by Yisrael Beytenu leader and former defense minister Avigdor Liberman during the last government, which led in part to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolving the Knesset and calling early elections.
Liberman for his part has stated following the election that he will not accept “even one comma to be changed” in the draft law, setting up a head-on collision between him and the charedi parties during the negotiations to form a new government.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia later this month, the Kremlin said Thursday, as Moscow looks to gain a greater role in the international outreach with Pyongyang.
For Kim, the planned summit is an opportunity to expand his options and potential leverage with both the United States and the North’s longtime ally, China.
Kim wants international sanctions eased as part of negotiations with the Trump administration over possibly rolling back North Korea’s nuclear program.

PRINT THIS FOR THE SEDER:  The Unforgettable Passover of 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau
 
The following excerpt comes from the JewishGen Passover Companion 2019. It was written by Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Greengrass, who describes how Jews imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau managed to conduct a Seder.

New York – The Health Department today announced it is issuing three civil summonses, subject to fines, to people who failed to comply with the Commissioner’s Emergency Order mandating measles vaccination. To stop the spread of measles in New York City, the Health Department on April 9 ordered adults and children ages 6 months and [...]