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The federal government has launched a criminal inquiry into the migrant shelters operating in New York City, demanding hotel staff to provide the names of individuals housed at these facilities, according to The NY Post.
At least two hotels in the city, including the Roosevelt Hotel, which serves as a migrant welcome center, and the Hotel Chandler in Midtown, have received subpoenas from the Southern District of New York, sources reported.
One subpoena served to the Hotel Chandler, which was reviewed by The Post, seeks testimony and evidence in relation to an unspecified “alleged violation” of immigration law.
The subpoena also requests that the hotel provide a list of the “full names of aliens” currently staying there.

As is known, Purim in Yerushalayim this year is Purim Meshulash, which means that Shushan Purim falls out on Shabbos and since all the mitzvos of the day cannot be fulfilled on Shabbos, some are fulfilled earlier and some later so the mitzvos are fulfilled on three consecutive days, Friday, Shabbos, and Sunday. The mitvzos of Megilla and Matanos L’Evyonim are fulfilled on Thursday night and Friday, along with Jews in unwalled cities throughout the world. On Shabbos, the Kriyas Hatorah of Purim is read along with a special Haftorah for Purim, and Al Hanissim is recited in davening and bentching. On Sunday, the mitzvos of Mishloach Manos and the Purim seudah are fulfilled.

In just a few hours, Jewish communities will erupt in celebration. The streets will fill with laughter, the sounds of joyous singing and lechaims shared among friends and family. Purim is a day of joy, but for too many people, it is something else entirely. It is a day of isolation, of suffering in plain sight while the world around them dances. It is for these people—the ones who feel invisible in their pain—that we at YWN feel compelled to speak up right now. For many months now, the growing mental health crisis in our community has been something we wanted to write about but held back. Each time we considered addressing the issue, another suicide had just occurred. Out of respect for the grieving families, we waited. Then, another suicide happened. So we waited again.

Jesse Furman, a U.S. district judge in Manhattan, said on Wednesday that the government must allow Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers to speak to him privately on the phone and gave prosecutors and lawyers for the anti-Israel former Columbia University graduates until Friday to tell him in writing when they plan to file written arguments, the Associated Press reported.
The initial hearing, which lasted about 30 minutes, centered on the government’s efforts to move the trial from New York to either New Jersey or Louisiana, where Khalil has been held. He is currently at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena, La., per the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fires back at pro-Hamas sympathizers and an AP reporter’s ‘insulting’ question about tariffs on ‘Hannity.’
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The post Karoline Leavitt: Trump Will Not Tolerate Siding With ‘Radical Islamic Terrorists’ first appeared on Matzav.com.

President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has detained roughly 33,000 illegal immigrants across the country—including thousands of gang members and individuals with ties to terrorism—since his inauguration on January 20.
During a media briefing on Wednesday, ICE officials reported that agents had taken approximately 33,000 illegal immigrants into custody between January 20 and March 10. This figure has already exceeded the total number of at-large arrests conducted under former President Joe Biden’s administration in Fiscal Year 2024.

Over the last 16 years, a new approach and method of limud Hashas has been nurtured and developed in Eretz Yisroel at Reshet Kollelei Shas Yiden. This phenomenon has captured the imagination and electrified lomdei Hatorah throughout the world, and has earned the avid support of Gedolim across the Torah spectrum.  Shas Yiden in UK & USA Shas Yiden not only grew from 6 avreichim metzuyonim to 126 avreichim geonim in five kollelim across Eretz Yisroel but, in response to repeated requests from abroad, a Shas Yiden kollel was first established in the UK, in Stamford Hill, London. The Shas Yiden reputation soared in this location and their first Annual Siyum Hashas with Gedolei Torah in attendance reflected the grandeur of those in Yerushalayim.

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America has issued the belwo statement designating tomorrow, Ta’anis Esther, as a Yom Tefila for the hostages, with special focus on bnei yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel. Similar statements have been issued by the Moatzos Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisroel and of Degel HaTorah in Eretz Yisroel. Agudas Yisroel also took the opportunity to request special tefilos on behalf of Shmuel ben Ita Etil, Rosh Yeshivas Philadelphia, Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Horav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita. The Rosh Hayeshiva’s condition has improved, but he still needs our tefilos.