The MTA announced that the Staten Island-bound lower level of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will be closed this Sunday, May 5, from 12:01 a.m. until 6 p.m. for the annual Five Boro Bike Tour. The upper level of the bridge will remain open throughout the event.
One Brooklyn-bound lane on the lower level will be closed from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., and the Bay Street Exit will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The BQE approach (I-278) to the bridge will close from 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m., and the 92nd Street exit ramp to the Staten Island-bound lower level, as well as the Belt Parkway entrance ramp to the lower level, will be closed from 12:01 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Germany’s leading Jewish organization expressed alarm Thursday over footage of flag-waving neo-Nazis in self-styled uniforms marching through an eastern German town on May Day unhindered by police.
Footage of the march Wednesday prompted widespread outrage in Germany and calls for authorities in the state of Saxony, where far-right sentiment is particularly strong, to step in.
“The images of the neo-Nazi march by The Third Way party in Plauen are disturbing and frightening,” said Josef Schuster, the head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews.
 
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Trump's ex-lawyer heading to Otisville Federal Penitentiary next week, a favorite among prison-bound Jews for its kosher meals and holiday observance

White House lawyer Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr in April complaining that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report made “political” statements, according to multiple reports.
The letter was sent one day after Mueller’s redacted report was released to the public.
“The SCO Report suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law,” Flood wrote. “Lest the Report’s release be taken as a ‘precedent’ or perceived as somehow legitimately the defect, I write with both the President and future Presidents in mind to make the following points clear.”

Family says 31-year-old Haim Ben Baruch was supposed to return home last month, but decided to extend his stay in South America by several weeks

Far-right alliance demanding Netanyahu commit to annexing all settlements while pitching legislation that would see PM avoid prosecution for corruption

Repairs, Schedule Changes Put Focus On New York Transit WoesThe increasing challenges posed by the New York area’s aging rail infrastructure came into sharp focus Thursday as a congressional delegation prepared to get a firsthand look at the country’s busiest station on the same day commuters learned about summer schedule disruptions due to track repairs.

Jewish archeological group pushes ahead with plan for new visitors center and zipline it says will transform 'crime-ridden' area after court okays eviction of dozens of families

Nearly 10 years after Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb the New York City subway system, a federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday said he will effectively serve no additional prison time after prosecutors cited Zazi’s “extraordinary cooperation” with US investigators.
Zazi pleaded guilty in 2010 to three charges connected to a plot to bomb the subway around the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to a terrorist organization.

The Largest Ship To Ever Enter An Israeli Port; Maersk HamburgThe largest ship to ever enter Israel arrived on Thursday morning towards dawn. The largest ship ever to arrive in Haifa entered the port, a container ship with a huge capacity of 15,300 containers, the Maersk Hamburg.
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Instagram video features Israeli officers at former Nazi concentration camps declaring 'Never Again'

Sen. Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign sent a fundraising email to supporters on Thursday with a message slamming President Trump for his “gendered” attack against the California senator after the president labeling Harris’s line of questioning towards Attorney General William Barr during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as “probably very nasty.”
“It seems like anytime Donald Trump feels threatened by a strong woman, he lashes out with this gross, weird attack,” the message read. “It’s the kind of sexism that makes me want to run my head through a wall.”
“You’d think, after three years, he could at least come up with something more original,” Harris’s campaign wrote.

Jared Kushner is talking more but revealing little-to-nothing about the Trump peace proposal, while telling Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank just yet

Nine Israeli civilians added to list of 3,146 terror victims in official numbers published ahead of commemoration events next week

Despite widespread ignorance about the Holocaust in Austria, one public school launches a project to find the 50 Jewish pupils it expelled in 1938 under Nazi policies

Cutbacks at movement’s umbrella organization said to be part of a long-term plan for financial rehabilitation

Chancellor says $5 million grant for inaugural program shows 'great faith' in university's efforts to promote campus programs on Israel and Judaism

Eric Trump weighs in on his father’s success with boosting the U.S. economy and the left’s and media’s assault on the Trump administration on ‘Hannity.’
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yahrtzeit-candlesRav Shabsai Sheftl Horowitz II (1590-1660). The son of the Shelah Hakodesh, Reb Shabsai studied under his father and under Rav Shlomo Ephraim Lunshitz. After his father left for Eretz Yisrael, he became dayan of Prague. He then became Rav of Fuerth, then Frankfurt am Main, then Posen, where he founded a yeshiva. In 1654, he was appointed Rav of Vienna. In 1649, he published his father’s work, Shnei Luchos HaBris, along with his own extensive introduction, Vavei HaAmudim.

At March of the Living, US ambassador says 'it's a mistake to get caught up' in statistical analysis, notes attacks on Jews are not 'a daily occurrence'

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