Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Wednesday called for an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to delay an updated $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman.
After Obama-era Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced in 2016 that such a re-design would be released in 2020, current Secretary Steven Mnuchin revealed last moth that it would be delayed until 2028.
“I ask that you conduct an investigation into decisions made at the Treasury since January of 2018 regarding the delay of the redesign of the $20 note,” Schumer wrote in a letter to Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson.
 Read more at The Hill.

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The weekly news cycle, which includes the events and stories that recently transpired, captivates the country and molds people’s opinions. It informs, educates, saddens and gladdens those who follow the fast-moving train. But for those who are sensitive enough to perceive that the rapid flow of news contains relevant messages with lessons for personal growth, the daily flow can also inspire.

Rav Bentzion Hacohen Kook, posek from Yerushalayim and head of the Beis Hora’ah Haklali of Yerushalayim, is due to visit New York and New Jersey this coming weekend, after two years during which he has not visited the United States.
Rav Kook is coming to celebrate the wedding of his talmid in New York, but is expected to stay for a few more days, giving Shiurim in Halacha and Shmuesen in yeshivas and batei midrash.
Rav Kook, author of the Seforim Tzioni Halacha including thousands psokim that he heard from his rebbi, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, will spend next Shabbos in Monsey and will then stay he Lakewood.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said that it shot down a U.S. military drone early Thursday, heightening already strained tensions between Washington and Tehran.
The Guard said it shot down the drone over Hormozgan Province in southern Iran, Tehran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported.
“Shooting down of the US spy drone has a clear message and it is the fact that the defenders of this country are ready to give decisive response to any aggression,” Major-General Hossein Salami, who commands the Guard, said, according to the state news agency.
Two U.S. officials, however, told The Associated Press that the incident happened in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.

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The White House on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s former aide Hope Hicks from answering dozens of questions from a House committee, an impasse that hands pro-impeachment Democrats another argument to start proceedings, even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pushed back.
During a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee, a White House attorney and Justice Department lawyer argued that Hicks had immunity from questions about her West Wing tenure – although Hicks is a private citizen. The standoff – and the White House assertion of an exemption that Democrats said simply does not exist – immediately raised the prospect of the House asking a court to force her to testify.

Officials involved in the investigation of the assault of the seven-year-old girl from the Modi’in area said Wednesday that the police may retract the indictment against the accused Palestinian Arab if there is no new evidence in the case.
A source close to the investigation explained that the investigation was corrupted due to the lateness of the family’s report to police, and that there is therefore a need for auxiliary evidence in order to justify the indictment against Mahmoud Katusa.
Gadi Siso, head of the Police Investigations Division, and the Military Advocate General, Major General Sharon Afek, decided yesterday to order the Central Unit in the Judea and Samaria District to conduct additional investigations.

Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Israel’s enemies “not to test” the Israeli military amid growing tensions with Iran in the region.
“I hear our neighbors to the north, south and east threatening to destroy us. I say to our enemies: The IDF has an immense destructive power. Do not test us,” Netanyahu said.
Israel’s air force is currently in the middle of a four day drill, simulating war on multiple fronts. The drill includes, the first time ever, the advanced F-35 fighter jet, as well as helicopters and drones.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Rav Tzvi Hirsh Broide, Rosh Yeshivas Kelm. His wife was Rebbetzin Nechamah Leba Broide, the daughter of the Alter of Kelm. He became very close to his talmid Yechezkel Levenstein, the future mashgiach of Mir and Ponevezh.