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A bill to dissolve Israel’s 22nd Knesset and set a date for new elections was expedited by lawmakers on Wednesday. If a coalition deal is not inked by midnight, then the country will head into an unprecedented third round of national elections within a one-year period.
The Knesset Arrangements Committee approved a special, fast-tracked legislative process that will allow Knesset members to hold four plenum votes and a committee amendments process in a single day.
Israeli law sets the election date 90 days after the deadline for forming a government passes, but since that would have put election day on the Jewish holiday of Purim, which falls this year on March 10, the bill seeks to set an election date of March 2, 2020.

The two people who stormed a kosher grocery store in Jersey City with rifles, killing three people inside and also murdering a veteran detective, have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, four law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4, Jonathan Dienst reports.
Three sources say Anderson was a one-time follower of the group, the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. There was a note with religious writings in the U-Haul he and Graham allegedly drove to the scene. Officials also said there were online postings connected to Anderson’s social page with anti-police and anti-Jewish writings. Investigators are looking to see if Anderson himself posted that material.

The two suspects who engaged in a deadly, hours-long gun battle with law enforcement at a kosher deli in Jersey City appear to have targeted the grocery store, the city’s mayor said early this morning.
A review of security footage from the store during the Tuesday-afternoon shooting that left five people dead, including the two suspects, made it “clear” that the gunmen chose the Jewish establishment, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (D) said on Twitter.
“I’m Jewish and proud to live in a community like Jersey City that has always welcomed everyone,” Fulop wrote on Twitter. “It is the home of Ellis Island and has always been the golden door to America. Hate and anti-semitism have never had a place here in JC and will never have a place in our city.”

A suspect involved in a prolonged firefight in Jersey City, N.J., that left six people dead, including one police officer, had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments, a law enforcement official familiar with the case said today, the NY Times reports.
The attack claimed the lives of two frum Yidden.
The law enforcement official could not provide more details about the suspect’s online posts or where they had been published. He said that investigators were still reviewing that information.
So far, the authorities have not identified the shooters, who were killed in the firefight.

JTA reports that Michelle Farber and other women have, for the past 7 1/2 years, studied a page of Gemara a day with a small group of women at her home in the Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana. Some 250 more listen to the class online.
On January  5, Farber – who uses the title “rabbanit” – is holding the first large-scale Daf Yomi Siyum Hashas for women at the Binyanei Ha’Uma convention center in Yerushalayim.
Women generally do not study Gemara.
Gedolei Torah have not supported the study of Gemara by women.
But Farber – a Long Island, New York, native – and other rogue women are doing their own thing, a project of Hadran, an organization founded by Farber ostensibly to “encourage women’s Talmud study,” JTA reports.

The White House Chanuka party Wednesday night will feature a first for America’s chassidishe community — it will mark the first time a chassid will light the menorah at the annual event, Yochonon Donn reports for Boro Park 24.
Mr. Moshe Margareten, who first conceived the idea of prison reform which culminated in President Donald Trump signing the bill into law last year, will be honored with the kindling, although it will be without a bracha, because the White House is hosting the Chanukah party two weeks early due to the year-end vacation season.

The mayor of Jersey City, N.J. said early Wednesday that gunmen likely targeted the kosher market where a deadly shooting occurred on Tuesday.
“After extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location,” Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted.
He did not elaborate as to why he believed the JC Kosher Supermarket was targeted.
The police shootout with two men armed with high-powered rifles erupted after midday on Tuesday in Jersey City, New Jersey‘s second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The six dead included three civilians, one police officer and both gunmen, authorities said.

The police-detective son of former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik helped fatally shoot the cop-killing suspects in Tuesday’s Jersey City rampage, the NY Post reports.
Joseph Kerik, a Newark, NJ, officer and member of a federal task force, was among the officers who rolled down a street in the New Jersey city’s Greenville neighborhood in an armored truck as bullets flew, a well-placed source said.

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