by Rabbi Yair Hoffman They were a group of forgotten neshamos.

Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset for a party roiled by infighting since President Donald Trump’s victory. Malone’s victory over Republican Josh Parsons in Tuesday night’s election might provide a light in the darkness for Democrats who are at each others’ throats publicly and struggling to unify around a strategy to counter Trump. Malone’s victory came in a county that Democrats say they haven’t represented in the chamber in over a century. Malone said in an interview Wednesday that he was helped by Trump’s embrace of chaos and rejection of a methodical, cohesive and by-the-book strategy of accomplishing his agenda in his first two months.

The IDF on Thursday morning confirmed the overnight airstrike in southern Lebanon that killed a senior Radwan Force commander. The elimination was carried out by a drone that targeted the commander’s vehicle as he was driving. “An Air Force aircraft, directed by Division 91, attacked overnight in the Derdgha’iya area in southern Lebanon and killed the terrorist Ahmed Adnan Bajija, a battalion commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force,” the IDF spokesperson stated. “During the war, he advanced and carried out numerous terror attacks against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces.

After Israeli leftists spent hours protesting on the streets this week and threatening a civil war, the coalition succeeded in passing a judicial reform bill overnight Wednesday. No other country in the world has a judicial selection process like Israel, with a leftist echo chamber responsible for electing its judges, shackling the elected government.  And the bill that passed overnight, a watered-down version of the original bill, is not enough to change the composition of the courts and its authoritarian power –  it is only a tiny baby step to correcting what is wrong with the judicial system and restoring autonomy to the government.

Israel will move its clocks forward by one hour overnight Thursday, marking the start of daylight saving time (DST). The switch will take place at 2 a.m., with the time jumping to 3 a.m. The six-hour time difference between Israel and the US for the past several weeks will now revert to a seven-hour time difference. DST will remain in effect until standard time resumes on October 26, 2025. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs are a “direct attack” on his country and that the trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low. Trump said earlier Wednesday that he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports and, to underscore his intention, he stated “This is permanent.” “This is a very direct attack,” Carney responded. “We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.” Carney said he needs to see the details of Trump’s executive order before taking retaliatory measures. He called it unjustified and said he will leave the election campaign to go to Ottawa on Thursday to chair his special Cabinet committee on U.S. relations.

President Donald Trump told Newsmax that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has faced intense criticism from his own party for failing to stop the Senate from passing a temporary funding bill, which ultimately avoided a partial government shutdown. Schumer had originally promised to rally his Democratic colleagues to oppose the bill by blocking the cloture motion, which requires 60 votes to end a filibuster and move the legislation forward for a full vote. However, as pressure mounted over the looming government shutdown, Schumer changed his stance, leading to calls for him to step down from his leadership role.

Family getting up: Wednesday (4/02/25)AM Rebbetzin Gittel BauskWife Reb. Gittel will be sitting in Israel until Monday night.

The revelation that President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials posted the specifics of a military attack to a chat group that included a journalist hours before the attack took place in Yemen has raised many questions. Among them are whether federal laws were violated, whether classified information was exposed on the commercial messaging app, and whether anyone will face consequences for the leaks. Here’s what we know so far, and what we don’t know. ___ KNOWN: Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked. It is not approved for carrying classified information.

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Governor Kathy Hochul of New York made it clear on The David Pakman Show that her state will not participate in large-scale deportations, stressing that state law enforcement will not collaborate in such operations. “We’re not going to allow this mass deportation,” Hochul stated, emphasizing that her cooperation will only extend to situations where a warrant exists or when an individual is listed on a terrorism watch list.

Family getting up: Tuesday (4/01/25)AM Mr. Yoel Smith Son

The judge overseeing the civil lawsuit involving a Signal group chat among members of Trump’s cabinet regarding Houthi attacks is the same judge who previously intervened to prevent the administration from deporting individuals suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang. James Boasberg, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was appointed by Obama and is currently handling the case brought by the organization American Oversight against five cabinet members, as reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a global trade war — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty. Trump is no stranger to tariffs. He launched a trade war during his first term, taking particular aim at China by putting taxes on most of its goods. Beijing responded with its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products ranging from fruit to automotive imports. Trump also used the threat of more tariffs to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate a North American trade pact, called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in 2020.

The London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that Israeli officials are allegedly using the ongoing talks as a pretext to push forward a plan that would force Palestinians out of Gaza. “There are attempts to embarrass Cairo through an Israeli plan aimed at advancing the forced displacement agenda,” one of the sources was quoted as saying.

(By Alexandra Segal) There’s something about watching history in the making. Seeing a moment in time, knowing you were there as it occurred, and that it would be remembered as monumental for all time. I think it’s safe to say that I, along with close to 6,500 other women felt like we were part of a historic moment, between this Sunday and Monday nights. In an opulent theater built for royals — the Kings Theatre — in the heart of Brooklyn, girls and women of all ages and backgrounds flooded from near and far (many flying in from Chicago, Switzerland, Toronto, Florida, Texas and other places) to hear the soulful sounds of one Shaindy Plotzker, a 28-year-old powerhouse who commands the stage and captivates every audience, event single time.

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