While Yahadut Hatorah is struggling to get the expanded housing portfolio into its hands, Kikar Shabbos News reports receiving a document showing the chareidi party is fighting hard for the housing portfolio.
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Gil Messing, who was tapped to become the next IDF spokesman, announced on Sunday that he will not be serving in the post, sending a letter to this effect to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Aviv Kochavi.
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A 5-year-old boy from Bnei Brak arrived at the emergency room o Schneider Children’s Hospital on Sunday morning with a piece of lumber nailed to his hand.
The boy, it turned out, had collected planks for Lag B’Omer when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his hand, a shocking sight: a rusty nail stuck in one of the planks – stuck in the back of his hand, coming out of the other side of his small hand.

A 30-year-old chareidi man riding an electric scooter was seriously injured on Motzei Shabbos, after he was involved in a hit and run accident.
On motzei Shabbos, MDA spokesman Zaki Heller reported that the man was injured “in an accident” which occurred on Golda Meir Blvd.

In a span of three days, two Jewish residents of Williamsburg have been physically assaulted in unprovoked incidents because of their appearance as Chasidic Jews. Anti-Semitic attacks in the Williamsburg Jewish community are growing in frequency and boldness.

The following is via ABC7 NY:
Imagine the possibilities if the NYPD could conduct active shooter training drills at the World Trade Center?
Now because of virtual reality they can.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is being deployed to the Persian Gulf to counter an alleged but still-unspecified threat from Iran, the latest in a long line of such deployments to the strategic region.
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In the 1890s, when the trend to shave the beard was gaining popularity in the Litvish regions of Lithuania and Russia and beyond (due to various secular influences*), the Chofetz Chaim zt’l published Kuntres Tiferes Odom.

The U.S. is awaiting retaliation from China over increased tariffs, after talks in Washington ended without a deal on trade, the president’s chief economic adviser said on Sunday.
“The expected countermeasures have not yet materialized.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be turning to President Reuven Rivlin to ask for a two-week extension as he continues efforts to establish a coalition government. He stated this on Sunday morning at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.