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It's Thursday, Parshas Ki Sovu,
August 27th, 2026. My name is Rabbi
Shmuel Schwartz and I'm your host on
Edge.
>> On Edge.
>> Your daily report of the news of the
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The IRGC struck a Kuwaiti oil tanker in
the Strait of Hormuz and Moscow
officially threatened to bomb British
military bases after new missile
technology was given to Ukraine.
As Yom Tov approaches, the State
Department issued a worldwide order to
protect global Jewish communities while
the FBI arrests an Ohio man for sending
death threats to a Jewish congressman.
And we have new data details on the
Iranian assassination plot that forced
Yair Netanyahu, the son of the prime
minister of Israel, to immediately flee
from the United States in Miami. And a
known anti-Semitic YouTuber,
well,
Tyler Oliveira, he doesn't call himself
anti-Semitic,
but the footage he put out is obviously
so, is now targeting local neighborhoods
in from Crown Heights to New Square, but
exactly how you should respond if he
approaches you.
Um I believe I heard yesterday that they
took him in to the Square Rebbe.
I think so, without cameras and mics. I
think so. I'm not sure exactly what the
details are, but I will let you know.
And also might as well let you know
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Yeah. Let's start with Russia. Russia.
Russia Russia Russia. Today we'll start
with Russia. A car bomb went off in St.
Petersburg in Russia. The explosion
killed
um
I think a Russian It doesn't say his
name. A Russian lieutenant colonel and
critically injured his wife. The blast
occurred around 10:00 a.m. their time,
local time, near a supermarket. An
improvised explosive device, an IED,
detonated immediately after the officer
started the engine and began driving
away from his home. Shattered nearby
shop windows, obviously, and scattered
debris across of uh dozens of meters.
Much of the housing in the immediate
area is owned by Russian Defense
Ministry of military families. Officials
say this is the latest in a string of
attacks uh targeting military personnel
tied to the war in Ukraine. In other
news, Russian President Vladimir Putin
is threatening the United Kingdom and
France.
This comes after British Prime Minister
Andy Burnham, the new one, right?
Visited Kyiv not too recently, right? If
you remember that, and announced a major
new deal.
Britain and France are giving Ukraine
the secret blueprints for very
long-range Storm Shadow missiles. So,
Ukraine can build the new weapons
themselves. They signed the deal, and
the Russian government is furious.
Senior adviser to Putin warned that
Moscow might launch hacking or military
strikes against the factories making
those missile parts for the Shadow Fleet
missiles. And uh for the not Shadow
Fleet, for the Shadow uh what's it
called again?
Shadow long Storm Shadow missiles,
excuse me. They're very long-range. They
fly very accurately and they're very
expensive as well, so I guess they gave
them the blueprints to be able to make
them themselves in um Ukraine.
So, Putin and his advisers were very
angry and said that they will threaten
those bases, those UK and French bases
if they do so.
When Moscow accused Britain of
in their quotes in this um statement
adding fuel to the fire, Burnham fired
back by asking reporters who started the
fire.
Okay. Russian military uh launched a
massive overnight strike hitting nine
different cities across Ukraine with
drones and missiles.
Critical infrastructure and residential
areas were hit across several regions in
Ukraine and at least six people were
killed.
There was also fire at the Rozetka Depot
which is in Brovary region.
And Rozetka is the largest online
marketplace in Ukraine. Like I said, you
know, it's a big online marketplace.
Rozetka's the
Sorry, so Ukrainian officials say that
um they are desperately short on Patriot
air defense missiles that they need to
stop these incoming rockets because it's
chaos and havoc.
Um earlier this week Russia bombed a
shopping center in the hometown of
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy killing 15
people. I think this is 16 people
actually but 15. It was a double tap
strike where a second drone hit the area
roughly 30 minutes after the first
targeting emergency responders and
rescue workers that arrived to the scene
trying to rescue people and then boom
another one comes. At least 16. People
actually say that yes and over 130
wounded including numerous children.
Several people remained missing in the
wreckage.
Russian officials now believe that
President Vladimir Putin might
eventually use tactical nuclear weapons.
Smaller nuclear bombs meant for the
battlefield as uh
as a a last resort in Ukraine which is
very dangerous. Western officials are
very worried about this possibility. Now
there is no sign of that that Russia's
actually preparing to use nuclear
weapons. Russia's closest partners China
and India have strongly warned Putin
against using such weapons.
Okay, so
it has uh
The war with Iran has now reached the
6-month mark.
6 months already. It has caused billions
of dollars in damage to American
equipment. Obviously, there's no active
ongoing military war but there is a war
going on.
That includes regional radar systems and
a CIA station in Riyadh.
Obviously, because they have to use a
lot even with, you know, the resources.
Even with Iran's top leaders killed, the
IRGC has managed to stay in control.
This morning, the IRGC Navy struck a
Kuwaiti oil tanker.
They hit the ship
as it tried to pass through through the
Strait of Hormuz. The strike started a
fire on board.
This comes right after the US Secretary
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, Pete
Hegseth told the press in big letters he
told them, "We control the Strait of
Hormuz." Listen to him.
>> numbers. Iran can't run anything
through. We can. The world economy
realizes that and so they they made a
big bet on controlling it and they
can't. And the devastating things our
military did to their navy and then
>> In other words, Pete Hegseth says that
Iran cannot control the Strait of
Hormuz. They can't. They simply can't
because the US is fully in control. The
United States military is strictly
enforcing its naval blockade against
Iran. Central Command says today that
its forces have redirected 75 commercial
vessels, disabled three, and boarded two
to ensure compliance. Yesterday we
reported that the Revolutionary Guard
claims um
that Iran and Oman reached a deal to
share the waterway with money,
obviously. They agreed to share the
revenues generated from uh what's it
called again? From collecting fees from
ships passing through the Strait of
Hormuz
and not allowing military ships through.
This is um Araqchi himself saying
I guess he can't hear him. It's fine.
Doesn't make a difference because
whatever he's saying, you know,
Trump has previously said already that
he will bomb the help you need out of
Oman if they help Iran. Iran is claiming
now that
it is the United States who is blocking
the final talks, basically. Obviously, I
mean, they're saying that they can't get
anything done because the United
Anyway. Meanwhile, Qatar's Foreign
Minister met with Iranian Parliament
Speaker Ghalibaf and pressed for
regional de-escalation. That's what
they're doing. Altani was which is the
foreign minister called dialogue the
best path to resolve differences and
urged a return to diplomacy from both
the United States and obviously Iran.
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Nepal.
Um as we reported yesterday, a massive
flash flood uh caused caused by a
a glacier
a glacier, excuse me, collapse.
It collapsed and basically killed over
350 people. 350 people along the border
of of Nepal and Tibet.
It was awful.
So, like I said, the huge flash floods
It it it took over the news by storm
actually. And literally, I mean,
figuratively figuratively speaking,
by glacier collapse.
A glacier collapse that have this has
killed the massive flash floods caused
by a glacier collapse have killed over
people along that border. Now, the
disaster happened when
the glacier broke apart
and fell into a river.
This sent a deadly wall of water and mud
and rock crashing through local
communities, buildings, everything.
People didn't have enough time to run
away. Officials described the flood as a
tsunami from the sky. At least 50
Americans are said to be among the
missing right now and along with the
people from over 30 other
other countries. The army and police
have sent helicopters to try and save
people.
India and other neighboring countries
are trying to help as well.
I believe Israel's next. They're going
to be I mean, you know, sending their
people there too because that's what
they usually do. They send out teams to
most of these um
disastrous
you know,
areas like as we heard written right
now, Colombia, Venezuela. The Badatz of
Eidah Hachareidis in Jerusalem is
calling for a massive rally this Sunday.
They are responding to the Israeli
military's plan to hold a specific draft
day.
The military wants to enroll Chareidi
yeshiva bocher into a new program that
they have set up. The Badatz released a
public letter urging the community to
come out and rally. They are asking
everyone to protest against the Gzeiras
Hagyius.
This morning in Yerushalayim, the Belzer
Rebbe led a Slichos service using the
Edah HaChareidis Nusach.
Um Sephardic massage. The event was
organized by Zohar, the group of ballet
achieves.
You know.
Uh do I might have tell you by the way.
Um
You know, I had them here on my show not
too long ago on Tisha B'Av. You can
visit it if you want on just one
shabbos.com.
Good job is great great organization. It
has drawn hundreds of participants
obviously from the tour organization
themselves. As you can see here, we
spoke about
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A very interesting schmaltz we had with
him and a lot a lot a lot of stories to
tell. It's a 2-hour and 23 minutes long
thing. You can find it there. It's 8024
as well. 8024.com but they obviously put
it over here. Anyway, let me know what
you think of it. If you want to go on
there.
Now. Um
This other event has drawn hundreds of
participants and bells of see them to
the great bells of smedrish.
You can hear it from the side.
>> [chanting]
>> Anyway, it was very nice to see. A fire
broke out in Bnei Brak yesterday on the
bottom of floor on the bottom floor of
the Nadworn great bes medrish. The fire
started right where the Talmud Torah and
Yeshiva Ketana are located. All the
kinderlach and teachers are safely
uh safely got out as soon as the smoke
began to spread. Investigators traced
the fire to a broken gas tank outside
the building.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of
the Abbeygate
bombing. For those of you
who remember
an ISIS an ISIS like an Islamic
terrorist suicide bomber detonated an
explosive device outside the airport in
Kabul.
Now, the attack killed 13 American
service members during the withdrawal
from Afghanistan. President Trump says
that the United States has caught the
main terrorist responsible for the Kabul
airport bombing.
In a public statement yesterday,
President Trump honored the victims and
the families.
And he said he promised the families
justice during his campaign. And he
announced that the military has now
captured the mastermind behind this
attack. Of course, he also blamed former
President Joe Biden for the deaths.
Trump and said that Biden badly managed
the withdrawal leaving troops
defenseless and allowing the Taliban to
free thousands of Islamic terrorists
from Afghan Afghan prisons.
Next, the United States State Department
gave a new worldwide order. They ordered
American embassies across the globe to
push the governments in those countries
to protect the Jewish communities.
The order calls for police protection
along the neighborhoods the the
neighborhood streets that Yidden use to
walk to shul. Embassies are told to set
up clear communication plans with local
Jewish organizations right now. This
will create a direct system to warn the
community if there is an imminent
immediate threat during Yom Tov
holidays. Next, as we reported earlier
this week, Netanyahu revealed that one
of his sons had been the target of an
Iranian plot to kill him during an
interview. Newer videos are coming out
now and the Yair Yair Netanyahu who
lives in Miami was the was the target of
an assassination attempt.
Intelligence agencies believed that
Iranian agents
were on the ground in the Miami area
conducting surveillance
of of the younger Netanyahu of the
younger Netanyahu's movements. according
to the report. Yair Netanyahu was told
to immediately leave Florida and return
to Israel. He left the country so fast
that he left all of his belongings
behind. He claims it was a reporter who
gave away his location and security
details. Speaking of assassination
attempts, someone sent severe death
threats to a Jewish congressman from
Florida last week. The FBI has now
arrested the man who wrote them.
Congressman Randy Fine received
an email threatening to set fire to his
home. The message also threatened to
kill his entire family. Federal agents
tracked the message to Columbus, Ohio.
They arrested 26-year-old Alex Miller.
Sounds like a Jew himself. This is
already the fourth time in recent years
that federal agents arrested someone for
sending death threats to this
congressman himself. Now, the YouTuber,
and obviously, so to speak, the way he
puts his videos out, Jew hater, named
Tyler Oliveira has now been spotted in
New Square.
This comes after people saw him recently
in Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Borough
Park, and Lakewood. He put up these
videos. He claims he goes to communities
to try and expose welfare and fraud and
has millions of followers because of
that. People are being ordered not to
talk to him. Simply keep quiet and walk
away. Because
yes, he has interviews with people.
People talk to him.
Give him information, but he cuts out
the pieces and just gives you what he
wants
you to hear. And he makes it sound as if
like all the Jews in the entire world
and everywhere
live off welfare.
I once gave a whole thing about it here,
segment on my news, because he already
put out so many YouTube clips. First of
all, if you're not educated enough how
to talk to such people, do not open your
mouth. Don't talk. There's no point.
Because he takes advantage of those
people. He comes in hours that everyone
is at work. And the people out there,
obviously people that aren't coil, stuff
like that, doesn't understand this,
right? So, he thinks they're living off
welfare. He catch one person who says it
out of the We know that all of us work
very hard for a living. We we our taxes.
And excuse me, like he comes into our
neighborhood and says that we live off
welfare. If something if we do benefit
from the taxes
from the welfare, whatever the
government gives us, it's basically our
taxes that pay for that welfare. So, I
mean,
we work very hard, we pay for our
houses, we pay for our utilities, we pay
taxes, we're very loyal and good
citizens, and he comes and makes us look
like as if we are Let's just try to do
something. It's not really working for
him anyway, because, you know, As if
somebody like let him do his thing what
he thinks he's doing, and but you don't
have to contribute to that. Just ignore
him. Ignore him. He doesn't deserve If
he wants to do this, if he doesn't want
to spread love, he want to he wants to
spread lies about us, don't give it to
him. If he enters a private property or
refuses to leave, contact the Ramapo
Police Department and let law
enforcement handle it.
The Lakewood looks like we need to con-
contact Mike Lawler. Mike Lawler has a
very good way of doing this.
Mike Lawler is is is a beautiful soul.
He's a heart I met him yesterday
actually at an event for uh Mazel tov to
Mendy Unger made a bar mitzvah
yesterday, and Boruch Shwartz was
married got married yesterday as well.
Two big simchas, two big people that a
lot of people know. Boruch Shwartz is
one of the Monsey Scoop's people. He's a
very well-known figure in the political
field of the Jewish you know, community.
And Mendy Unger as well, he's a writer
in the moment, and also we had him
several times in our show. He's a news
analyst, and he's a great person. Made a
bar mitzvah his son yesterday, mazel tov
to him. But I also want to mention that
Mike Lawler
is a great person. He's running for
re-election. Hard race by the way, close
race, very very close race.
But we need to make sure that he stays
in office because the stories I've
heard, the people he's helped, and the
people he helps until today, you know,
you can contact him anywhere in the
world by the way. He doesn't just help
people from this district. I heard
people from all over the place. If they
need anything any sort of help,
anything, immigration, if it's finance,
if it's a problem with law enforcement,
if it's an issue with
anything anything, the government's
problems or
be it what it is, doesn't make a
difference. Company taking advantage of
you and you needed, you know, solar
panels issue, you you can you know that
Lawler is on your side because he takes
care of his constituents in a very, very
close way and he has a voice in
Congress. He's a power. He's a powerful
voice and he cares. He cares about every
single person in the community, not only
our community. I heard from every single
community out there. Be it No matter
what color you are, no matter what race
you are, every single community. And
this is what I heard about him. So, Mike
Lawler is the person you want to vote
for if you're in the new NY-17 district
and you have a chance to vote. And you
didn't register, you go out and register
now to vote. Go out and register. If you
didn't register your kids, your
18-year-olds, you know, from 18 and up.
Every kid, I know your Yeshiva Sam,
register them to vote. And if they're
not here during the voting time in
November, you you sign up for absentee
ballots. It's okay. But the point is you
have to register. Yes, your voice makes
a difference because you know why?
Because if you don't go out and vote and
he loses, then you're going to not
realize what you've been missing. Cuz
right now, everything's great.
Because Refuah Helpline, countless of
lives he's saved. I've heard personal
stories.
I mean,
he's helped them speed up the process of
insurance and all the different things
that red tape that can kill people, you
know, can kill people literally for
waiting for waiting. And he's helped
speed up those process. Help Refuah
Helpline, Hatzolah, all these Chaim
Medical, Chaim Medical, all these
organizations that need the help to get
to cut the red tape. And Mike Lawler's
there for them. There for them. He's a
voice in Washington. He has a voice and
because of that, he has a way to
help his office is open 24/7. Literally,
you can call him whenever you want. It's
unbelievable. They're always active.
They're always active. So, this is why
Mike Lawler needs to be
voted for re-election and to stay in his
seat, to stay in Congress to be able to
help his constituents further because,
you know, once the holiday of Rosh
Hashanah stops, you will notice it then
and it's going to be hard. Don't wake up
then. Do it now. Go out, register to
vote. Again, I'm doing this on my own.
My own I'm not even I haven't been asked
to do this. I'm telling you I'm I'm
doing this on my own. Yes, I'm involved
in the campaign a little bit and doing
uh videos for them. But at this point
here right now, the news never asked me
to do this. I'm doing this on my own. I
feel like it's so important. I live in
the NY 17 district, but many of you
probably listening to this know this as
well. The Board of Education voted
Wednesday night to completely cancel
courtesy
bussing for students who live nearby in
Lakewood. Lakewood basically bussing
crisis is basically affecting public
schools as you know, right? Under the
state law, the district only
has to has to bus younger kids living
more than 2 miles away. The board says
the township simply does not have the
money to pay for the short shorter extra
routes anymore. For years public school
families got that short distance bussing
for free. Meanwhile, the Jewish families
had to pay with their own money, but the
cut comes just days days day before the
new school year starts. It's a massive
price price increase for the from
communities and everyone who uses the
bus. In other news, the tech company
Meta, which is Facebook, right? The
group that owns Facebook, Mark
Zuckerberg, agreed to pay an 18 billion
dollar settlement to several American
states. The states sued the company over
the social media addiction in children
and teenagers. They said Meta designed
its apps on purpose, Instagram,
Facebook, to make young people addicted
to the cause and harm them. Meta agreed
to pay 18 billion dollars in damages and
restructure their apps.
Also, Health and Human Services
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Oh,
we haven't heard him in a while. Is
arguing with Pennsylvanian Governor Josh
Shapiro over the measles outbreak.
Yesterday we reported that Governor Josh
Shapiro announced that two unvaccinated
people in the state died from the
disease. Kennedy accused Shapiro of
lying to the public and said that the
governor's office made up the two
measles deaths completely. Kennedy has
said that parents should decide about
vaccines for their children, not the
state. He got a lot of bad feedback for
that statement, obviously, as you can
imagine. Here in New York, local small
grocery stores owners are protesting New
York City Jumaane Williams mayor Jumaane
Williams. You see what happens when you
don't go register to vote and you don't
vote?
Yeah, you get the results of that,
exactly. They are fighting his plan to
open government-run grocery stores. It
never works. Socialist government,
people, never work. So, I'm sorry, you
know, these
communist socialist ideas ideologies do
not work.
Obviously, the business owners held held
a protest outside in Harlem to fight
against this project. They also filed
two separate lawsuits against the city.
The lawsuits claim the mayor's grocery
store will hurt their small business
businesses by charging less and drive
anyone out of business. Also, the Trump
administration is officially labeling a
British group called Palestine Action as
a terror organization. Finally, okay.
About time. They are now labeled as a
specially designed global terrorist. The
decision immediately freezes any money
the group has in the United States. It
also makes an
illegal for Americans to do any business
with them. The move follows a similar
terror label by the United Kingdom. This
is the first known case of a British
left-wing protest group getting this
specific US label, which is big.
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