Rav Moshe Rivkash (Rivka’s), author of Be’er Hagolah on Shulchan Aruch (1684). He was one of four great tzadikim of Vilna who lived at the tragic time of the massacres at the hands of the Cossacks in 1655,  along with Rav Ephraim (the Shaar Ephraim), Rav Shabbsai Cohen (the Shach), and Rav Shmuel Koidenaver. Approximately 25,000 Jews were killed in and around Vilna.

New York City mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio was campaigning in Iowa as 72,000 of his city’s residents experienced a massive blackout that left the West Side of Manhattan in the dark Saturday. During and after the blackout, the presidential contender faced criticism from his constituents and fellow politicians for being out of town during a major emergency.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who led the city’s response and outreach efforts in de Blasio’s absence alongside New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, was particularly pointed in his criticism.

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As previously reported on Matzav.com, the Lakewood, NJ School District has filed a federal lawsuit against state officials after they failed to approve a proposed $30 million aid increase to the district and instead issued a loan.
The lawsuit, which names the New Jersey State Legislature, State Senate President Steve Sweeny, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, the NJ Department of Education, and NJ Education Commissioner Lamont O. Repollet as defendants, claims that they illegally discriminated against minorities when they failed to supply the needed aid.
“Lakewood’s student population consists almost entirely of minority students,” the lawsuit reads. “86.1% of Lakewood’s students are Hispanic, 7.2% are Black, 5.6% are White, and 1.2% are other.”

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
The posuk says, “Al kein yomru hamoshlim, ‘Bo’u cheshbon.’”  The Gemora in Bava Basra [78b] interprets this verse homiletically as referring to hamoshlim b’yitzram, those who rule over their evil inclination.  The Medrash in Esther Rabbah teaches us, Resha-im br’shus libom – The wicked are controlled by their hearts.”  On the other hand, “Tzadikim libom b’reshusom – The righteous control their hearts.”  One rules over their yeitzer when they know how to say no to temptation, when they stop short from revealing someone’s secret, from talking about a neighbor, when they are able to avert their gaze from immodesty, when they have the conviction to avoid distraction during their prayers.

The Hamas terrorist organization attempted to distance itself on Monday from comments by a senior official in the group last week, who called for members of the Palestinian diaspora to kill Jews around the world.
The Islamist terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction made the move following a flurry of condemnations of its senior official Fathi Hammad, including by a top Palestine Liberation Organization official, a United Nations envoy, and a number of Palestinian activists.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway pushed back on left wing criticism of the ICE raids, telling reporters that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “does this every single day” and pushed back against the description of such actions as “raids.”
“ICE does this every single day. Law enforcement in this country enforces the law,” Mrs. Conway said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s a tautological definition of their duties. And this, of course, happened under President Obama. He was referred to as ‘deporter in chief’ very harshly in 2012.”

Israeli security forces foiled a planned stabbing attack in Chevron Monday morning, an IDF spokesperson said.
The incident took place next to the Beit HaShalom, a Jewish-owned building in Chevron Monday morning, when Israeli soldiers spotted an Arab woman who aroused their suspicions.
The suspicious woman was detained by an IDF force as she was passing by the Beit HaShalom, and during a search of her purse, a large knife was found. The woman was then arrested and an attack was averted.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Secular Israelis living in the northern town of Charish on Friday demonstrated opposite centers selling apartments, protesting the sale of apartments to charedim, Arutz Sheva reports.
Originally, some of the contractors intended Harish to be a charedi city, but not enough charedim bought into the projects. However, according to the site, several weeks ago, J. Handasa, which is building the Hadar Harish project, began selling dozens of apartments to Toldot Aharon chasidim. The project includes six buildings including a total of 120 apartments.

A successful campaign to pay for a groundbreaking 2 million dollar medication to save a young Jewish girl was completed in  a only five days as Jews across the globe united to help out.
Eliana (now Chana) Cohen was recently diagnosed with SMA type 2, a life altering disease with devastating symptoms. Due to a misdiagnosis, the family only learned of her condition a few weeks ago, leading to a horrifying countdown. A new drug to fight the disease with a high success rate in clinical trials was recently FDA approved. However, the approval was only for children under two, leaving the family a matter of days to put together the funds, which weren’t covered by insurance.