The Boro Park Jewish Community Council (BPJCC) is preparing to open a brand-new community center in the heart of Boro Park to meet the neighborhood’s growing demand for services. With its current headquarters at 1310 46th Street operating at full capacity, the new location—situated near the Metropolitan Commercial Bank on 13th Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets—will offer expanded space and programming for the community. “For decades, the BPJCC has been here for the klal—helping thousands navigate everything from SNAP and health insurance to immigration, legal assistance, and job placement,” said Avi Greenstein, CEO of BPJCC, telling YWN. “But we’ve completely outgrown our current space.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, took off from Ben Gurion Airport on the Wing of Zion plane on Sunday evening at about 8:30 p.m. to fly to Washington, D.C., for Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump and senior administration officials this week. Netanyahu’s departure was delayed for about three and a half hours due to the Chareidi draft law crisis. Speaking to the press before his departure, Netanyahu emphasized that this will be his third meeting with President Trump in the six months since he was elected and spoke about several issues he intended to discuss with Trump, including how to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, returning all the hostages from Gaza, and eliminating Hamas’s military capabilities.

In a dramatic and unprecedented move, the IDF announced on Sunday that it will begin implementing a new and severe enforcement plan against Chareidi draft dodgers. The new plan is taking place in parallel with the issuance of 54,000 conscription orders to bnei yeshivos beginning on Tuesday. As part of the plan, the IDF will deploy new roadblocks at border crossings, at entrances to Chareidi cities, and even on main roads, at checkpoints in Yehudah and Shomron, on the way to Eilat, and at entrances to Chareidi population centers. In addition, the military police will be bolstered, and Border Police companies will be deployed to prepare for expected riots.

The IDF has ordered an immediate evacuation of residents in western Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, following rocket attacks launched from the area targeting Israel.

An article published in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend drew parallels from Operation Rising Lion to Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. “That war really looms large in terms of the entire way in which they see themselves under siege, permanently under threat,” said Vali Nasr, an Iran expert at Johns Hopkins University and author of Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History. “The mindset of the country now is that it dodged a bullet and that it still has to contend with a long-term danger.” “They know that they can survive a total war that lasts a long time,” said Afshon Ostovar, an Iran military expert and associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

BMG CEO Rabbi Yosef Heinemann releases a statement expressing the yeshiva’s “deep sorrow and grave concern” over the arrest of yungerman R’ Binyomin Kubani.