Every Year on ל”ג בעומר, Meron is covered with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world who have come to daven on the Yahrzeit of the Holy ר’ שמעון בר יוחאי. All approaching the Kever have their individual troubles in mind. Everyone can recount their own miraculous tale, how businesses successfully prospered, barren women that we’re blessed with children, and single people finding a Shidduch, not forgetting stories about how people had to cancel operations due to making a complete recovery Boruch Hashem. This year, the number of people with physical access to the holy Tziyun of Reb Shimon bar Yochai in Meron is limited unfortunately to a mere few dozen.

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Georgia’s attorney general appointed a black district attorney Monday to take over the case of a white father and son charged with killing a black man, making her the third outside prosecutor in a slaying that’s prompted a national outcry over suspicions that race played a role in delaying arrests. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was fatally shot Feb. 23 by the men who told police they chased him because they believed he matched the appearance of a burglary suspect caught on surveillance video. Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, were arrested last week, more than two months later, after video of the shooting appeared online and provoked outrage.

A majority of Americans disapprove of protests against restrictions aimed at preventing the spread the coronavirus, according to a new poll that also finds the still-expansive support for such limits — including restaurant closures and stay-at-home orders — has dipped in recent weeks. The new survey from the University of Chicago Divinity School and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 55% of Americans disapprove of the protests that have popped up in some states as some Americans begin chafing at public health measures that have decimated the global economy. Thirty-one percent approve of the demonstrations.

Sen. Ted Cruz is working on a book, to be published in October, about the Supreme Court. Regnery Publishing announced Monday that the book was called “One Vote Away” and would draw upon the Texas Republican’s long legal background to provide an inside look at key court decisions. “With the perspective only a veteran government leader and seasoned Supreme Court advocate can bring, Cruz will outline these crucial Court battles as a powerful wakeup call to Americans to the exceptional power of a single Supreme Court vote against the backdrop of the 2020 election and in the decades to come,” according to a statement from Regnery, a conservative publisher. Cruz previously wrote the memoir “A Time for Truth.” Before first being elected to the U.S.

Since the first line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, New York’s subway has never ceased running. There were brief blips of interruption after 9/11 and in the last decade for hurricanes and blizzards, but for more than 115 years the rumbling on the rails has kept the click-clack heartbeat of New York. A second, tunneled city that, like the skyward metropolis above, never sleeps. Last week, for the first time, the trains stopped running in a planned shutdown. Between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., the subways and New York’s 472 stations began closing for a nightly cleaning to disinfect trains.

The Supreme Court is holding its second week of arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, with audio available live to audiences around the world. The highest profile cases are up this week, including two on Tuesday involving the potential release of President Donald Trump’s tax returns. On Monday, the justices heard two cases, including one from California about the appropriate separation between church and state. Some observations, trivia and analysis from our Supreme Court reporters (all times local): 1:15 p.m. The Supreme Court has wrapped up its fourth day of historic arguments over the phone because of the cornorvirus pandemic. The justices heard two cases Monday.

As he encourages the country to “reopen,” President Donald Trump is confronting cases of the coronavirus in the White House itself, spotlighting the challenge he faces in instilling confidence in a nation still reeling from the pandemic. Two known cases of COVID-19 among staffers in one of the most-protected complexes in America have sent three of the nation’s top medical experts into quarantine and Vice President Mike Pence into “self-isolation.” The scare comes as the White House this week is emphasizing to the American people the steps being taken to assure their safety — in hopes that will coax them to resume normal activities.

Meron this year looks different.  There isn’t 100,000 people there. However in a free service, you can send names for tefillah for free through Yad L’Achim to Meron now As you know, Tuesday is Lag B’Omer a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶s̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶J̶e̶w̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶M̶e̶r̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶a̶v̶e̶n̶.

Mayor Deblasio condemned the anti-Semitic attack against Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg last night, but made no mention of the Tweets he fired off last week which named the entire Hasidic community by name. A tweet by NYC COuncilman Kalman Yeger mentioned the Mayor’s condemnation and wrote “Gee. I wonder what rhetoric could have possibly led to THIS.” At the Monday morning press conference, Deblasio said the following: “I want to talk about an incident that happened last night and this is something that we’ve seen in the context of this whole painful crisis. Remember, there were too many times, way too many times over the last 10 weeks when I’ve had to talk to you about incidents of bias directed at Asian Americans in the context of the coronavirus crisis.