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Last night, at the annual Satmar כא’ כסלו eventm, with thousands celebrating the escape of the previous Satmar Rebbe zt”l from the Nazis ym”s, the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum, spoke about current issues and events pertaining to the klal.
The rebbe spoke out against smartphones, stating that we are losing our body and neshama together, and even for those who have a filter, the yetzer hora has found a way to bypass it through other means, such as Watsapp groups and statuses that are not filtered, connecting people of different backgrounds with each other.

 
The first 30-minute installment in a brand-new weekly parsha series, “The Inner Dimension”!
In this class, we explore deeply foundational relationship advice from the Mei HaShiloach and a beautiful idea from the Degel Machaneh Ephraim. We hope you enjoy, and please share! Remember to like and subscribe to this channel!

Congress passed a law on Thursday to raise the legal age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 across the nation, the Daily Beast reports. The provision was included in a $1.37 trillion spending package introduced in May as part of the Tobacco-Free Youth Act by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
Kaine tweeted, “I’m thrilled that my bill to raise the tobacco age will get a vote in the House and Senate this week. This legislation will have an enormous positive impact on public health in our country—and it’s needed now more than ever as we grapple with the youth e-cigarette epidemic.”

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The 13th Global Siyum HaShas of Daf Yomi will be held two weeks from today, on January 1, 2020 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey and Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
With MetLife being an outdoor venue, weather has been a major topic of discussion.
Matzav.com has been monitoring the weather forecast for the momentous day of the Siyum.
As of this afternoon, the weather forecast for East Rutherford, NJ for January 1 – 13 days away – is partly cloudy, with 20% chance of precipitation, and a high temperature of 40°F, with a low of 29°F. The Siyum will be held during midday, when temperatures are closer to the high.

Haaretz Hatovah
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel.
For Growing In Ruchniyus, There’s No Place Like Eretz Yisroel
Rabbi Yosef Younger’s story

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Pelosi would ‘lose her job’ if she didn’t decide to move forward with impeachment.
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The announcement on Wednesday by Israel’s Shin Bet security agency that it has arrested some 50 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) capped off a months-long targeting of the terror group for its role in the deadly terror attack on Aug. 23 that killed an Israeli teenager hiking with her father and brother.
Rina Shnerb, 17, died as a result of an explosion near the town of Dolev in Samaria; her brother, Dvir Shnerb, 19, was injured, along with their father, 46-year-old Rabbi Eitan Shnerb. According to Israeli reports, the explosive device included 3 kilograms (6.5 pounds) of explosive material, making it an “unusually powerful bomb.”

A little more than a week after the furious gun battle in Jersey City that claimed the lives of a police officer along with three people at a kosher supermarket, the city’s mayor on Wednesday had an unambiguous message for local officials and law enforcement agencies around the country who are confronting a rise in antisemitic hate crimes.
“There’s a growing antisemitic sentiment in America and around the world, and it’s becoming more emboldened, more out in the open — there’s no secret about that,” Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop told The Algemeiner in an interview. “That’s why it is extremely important to call this out early, even the small things, when you see them.”