Lakewood Shomrim will have command post set up around town to assist residents on Yom Tov. Take note of the location nearest to you.

The Trump administration is floating a new policy that would impose a $998 daily fine on migrants residing in the U.S. illegally who decline to voluntarily leave the country.
Under the proposed rule, migrants who fail to pay the fines could also have their property seized. The initiative mirrors a similar effort from 2018, during President Trump’s first term, and is reportedly grounded in a 1996 immigration statute, according to a Reuters report.
Back in 2018, the enforcement of the law was far more targeted. That year, the Trump administration issued fines to nine undocumented migrants who had taken refuge in churches. In those cases, each individual faced penalties amounting to $60,000.

Pesach – חג הישועות The Festival of Redemption As we approach Pesach, we recall so many miracles in Mitzrayim during the departure from slavery – the beginning of Klal Yisroel’s journey to receive the Torah and to fully become and live as עם ה’.  For so many centuries, departure from one place in the golus inevitably led to going to another golus and establishing new yeshivos and kollelim, all of which had positive influences in their new locales.  However, over the last 16 years, a new approach and acclaimed method of limud Hashas has been developed and fostered in Eretz Yisroel at Reshet Kollelei Shas Yiden.

In an interview broadcast by Sky News Arabia, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar placed full responsibility for the ongoing conflict in Gaza on Hamas, emphasizing that the group’s actions have directly led to the continuation of hostilities.
“It’s Hamas’s fault that the war is going on. Who opened the war? Hamas. Who attacked on October 7? Hamas. Who is pushing now for war? Hamas,” said Sa’ar.
The Foreign Minister went on to say that Hamas’s refusal to release hostages and give up its weapons is what’s fueling the conflict.
“Hamas is pushing the war because it refused to release 59 of our hostages. Hamas is pushing for war because it’s not ready to disarm.”

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it’s not backing off its latest deadline for New York to end its $9 congestion toll on drivers entering the most traffic-snarled parts of Manhattan, despite a recent court filing that indicated the charge would remain at least through the summer. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who called the toll a “slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” originally told the state to end the tolling program by March 21. When state officials refused, federal authorities set a new deadline of April 20. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had said the state intended to ignore that deadline, too.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unleashed a blistering tirade against former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him a “moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” in response to Navarro’s dismissive remarks about Tesla’s manufacturing credibility. The tech mogul and Tesla CEO, 53, lit up social media after Navarro claimed on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Musk was “not a car manufacturer” but merely “a car assembler,” accusing Tesla of relying too heavily on imported parts. “Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk fired back on X. “Tesla has the most American-made cars.

More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, the White House said. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to comply with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. The White House confirmed the funding pauses late Tuesday night but offered no further details on what they entail or what grants to the schools are being affected.