House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, Washington’s odd couple, have a limited set of mutual legislative interests in a capital beset by dysfunction and awash in presidential politics.
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A Jet Blue flight at JFK Airport has been placed into quarantine, after two passengers showed possible signs of having the highly contagious measles virus.
Sources tell YWN that JetBlue Flight 410 from Santo Domingo Republic is carrying dozens of Orthodox Jewish passengers who are returning from a Pesach program.

From before we were married my wife has been going away every year to Pesach hotels or what not. Her whole life she never knew anything else. Baruch Hashem we have the means to easily go away every year to all the top programs we have been to over the years, and we have just about been to them all.

Two-day delivery is going out of style.
Amazon, which hooked shoppers on getting just about anything delivered in two days, announced Thursday that it will soon promise one-day delivery for its U.S.
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The Vhaarev Na program, the brainchild of Rabbi Dovid Newman, is not merely a learning program but a lifestyle, where bochurim learn and then chazer again and again until they “own” the gemara.

Coalition talks between Likud negotiators and the chareidi parties began on Sunday, April 28, 2019. The factions met in Knesset on Sunday ahead of the start of talks at 6:30PM.
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President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday, April 28, 2019, hosted, for the fourth time, a meeting of ‘Zikaron BaSalon’ ahead of Yom HaZikaron (Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day). This year, Beit HaNasi hosted Holocaust survivor Yosef Hershkovich who was born in Sighet in northern Transylvania.

Elad Mayor Yisrael Porush sent an urgent letter to all chareidi MKs who have just been elected to the Knesset, demanding that the coalition negotiations include budget allocations for the chareidi cities, which he says are discriminated against in comparison with other cities.

There was a fire in a multi-story residential structure on Chaviva Reich Street in Bat Yam on Sunday afternoon. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they succeeded in bringing the blaze under control in a relatively short time.
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The Justice Department has informed the House Judiciary Committee that Attorney General William Barr may skip a Thursday hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report if committee lawyers seek to question him.
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