Three of the four children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen died in the Sri Lanka bombing attacks, a spokesman has confirmed to the BBC.
The family were visiting the country over the Easter holiday. The names of the children have not been made public. Holch Povlsen owns the international clothing chain Bestseller.
He is also the biggest single shareholder in clothing giant Asos and is the UK’s largest private landowner, according to the Times newspaper.
“Unfortunately, we can confirm the reports,” a Bestseller spokesman said in an email. “We ask you to respect the privacy of the family and we therefore have no further comments.”
Read more at BBC News.
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President Donald Trump sued his own accounting firm and the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee at the same time on Monday – trying an unusual tactic to stop the firm from giving the committee details about Trump’s past financial dealings.
The suit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, seeks a court order to block a subpoena issued by the committee to Mazars USA last week.
It amounts to Trump – the leader of the executive branch of government – asking the judicial branch to stop the legislative branch from investigating his past.
To do so, Trump wants the court to negate an idea that has guided Congress for decades: that the legislature’s investigative power isn’t just meant to research possible legislation.

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An attack on a Jewish man on the streets of London was caught in a dashcam video. The attacker is seen on video with a a rod in his hand chasing the victim, who escaped with minor injuries. The attack occurred outside a shul in the Stamford Hill neighborhood.
The director of the North London Jewish community said that there was “no doubt” that the attack was anti-Semitic in nature and that there has been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Stamford Hill recently.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Lakewood Vizhnitz Kehilla, led by Rav Eliezer Hager, went into contract erev Yom Tov to purchase the flea market located on Route 70 in Lakewood, New Jersey.
The land is being bought to build a 160 unit development for the growing chassidus.
The Kehilla is expected to close on the property right after Pesach.
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United Hatzala EMS volunteers treated a young boy who was hit by a bus on HaChozeh M’Lublin Street in Beitar Illit. Volunteers attempted to resuscitate four-year-old Boruch Eisenberg from Monsey, New York, and initiated CPR. Unfortunately, after lengthy efforts, the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit are currently treating family members and bystanders who witnessed the accident.
The family had come to from America to to Israel for Yom Tov and had traveled to Beitar Illit to visit family.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says Democrats have become an ’embarrassment’ to their party and public service by choosing to attack President Trump instead of work with him.
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Highlights of a “Kinnus Taharas Hakodesh” gathering by thousands of Satmar chassidim at Arthur Ashe Stadium to raise $12 million for Israeli institutions that refuse to take funds from the Israeli government. The event was arranged by the Satmar faction led by Rav Zalman Teitelbaum of Satmar in Williamsburg.
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Tens of thousands of Yidden attended a mass Birkas Kohanim this morning at the Kosel. The large Birkas Kohanim is held every Chol Hamoed and draws tremendous crowds.
The entire Old City of Yerushalayim was closed to vehicles as thousands streamed by foot and via bus to the Kosel. Some had davened Shacharis elsewhere, while others took part at minyanim at the Kosel.
All joined together for the central Birkas Kohanim,with the Kosel chazzan calling out the bracha over a microphone. Hundreds of kohanim gathered at the front of the minyan, right by the Kosel, to bentch their fellow Yidden.

The mother of the Pupa Rebbe, Rebbetzin Miriam Greenwald, wife of the previous rebbe of Pupa, Rav Yosef Greenwald, author of the Vayechi Yosef, is in serious condition and in need of rachamei Shomayim.
The first day of Yom Tov, the news reached Williamsburg that the 100-year-old rebbetzin was rushed to the hospital.