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It is eight of Shvat,
Shvat Mevorchim, Rosh Chodesh Sivan.
Rosh Chodesh is going to be on Sunday.
Parshas Bamidbar, kuf ches yud toshavim
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All right. Now, it's not available yet
in text message, only on WhatsApp. Just
saying. Just saying. Trump says
President Xi Jinping is also against
Iran's nuclear weapons. And then, he
called him he called Iran crazy over and
over. And there's Well, more more more
where that came from, but we'll tell you
soon. Israel carried out an airstrike in
Gaza just now, a short while ago. So, we
have to bring you this news. The strike
targeted senior Hamas military leader
Izz al-Din al-Haddad. I did mention him
a few times here. He was a major
operative, a major Hamas leader.
Um I think they put him up as the next
guy there after the the Yahya Sinwar was
killed. It hit a residential building in
the city's Rimal neighborhood. Now, I
don't I don't need you to get this. This
is really Security officials say there
are initial indications that he was
actually killed, this Haddad,
in the attack. He was responsible for
many deaths, especially throughout the
October 7th attack. Medics report
that three people were killed so so far
in the bombing. So, we don't yet exactly
know. It was an apartment building
there. The action took place despite the
existing ceasefire agreement.
At least 96 people died in India's dust
storms in heavy rains. A man recovered
his Bitcoin password after 11 years, all
thanks to AI.
Okay, stay tuned for more news where
that came from. But, before we do that,
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Ora auction. Ora, da da da da dum. Dum,
you know the song? All right, President
Donald J. Trump finished a two-day visit
to China
where he met with President Xi Jinping
in Beijing. Xi Jinping in Beijing. Right
after the meeting, Trump announced big
business deals with China and said
that they secured orders for 200 Boeing
passenger planes. Yesterday I said 500,
I do apologize. It was a mistake from
one of the sources I received. Anyway,
plus a commitment to consider American
oil from Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska.
He said, "We're going to have Chinese
ships arrive to those ports and they're
going to buy oil." So, it's a better
thing. Now, they won't have to go
through the Strait of Hormuz. They won't
have to rely on these. He says, "America
produces way more cleaner oil and better
oil and twice as much
as as as um the Arab nations there."
China also said
that it will invest billions of dollars
into American technology companies, but
there is no deal yet for advanced Nvidia
chips, which Trump, we all know, doesn't
want to give them. China's energy
purchases was also part of the
discussion. President Trump's visit to
Beijing this week was was basically
marred by a serious physical standoff.
An intense dispute disrupted erupted,
sorry, between US Secret Service agents
and Chinese security forces. Chinese
officials attempted to stop the US
agents from entering the main meeting
room there, specifically blocking the
presidential briefcase.
We all know what that briefcase entails.
This quickly escalated into a physical
clash over security protocols. Reports
say that the White House aide was
trampled during the fight. The aide was
not seriously injured, although now the
US and Chinese officials eventually
resolved the dispute. So the meeting
between President Trump and President Xi
Jinping
then went on ahead as planned. Now,
during the summit, President Xi Jinping
gave a blunt warning to President Trump
about the possibility of a future clash
and conflict between the two the two
nations.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump
said that Xi Jinping
also doesn't want Iran to have a nuclear
weapon. He explained that Iran should
make a deal or they would get
annihilated.
Or all die. It will only take one plane
and one minute according to Trump. He
said, quote, "Any sane person would make
a deal, but they might be crazy." He
kept saying this over and over again
that Iran is crazy. And this is exactly
the reason why they should never have a
nuclear weapon because they are crazy.
On China's end, Xi Jinping promised not
to give military equipment to Iran
anymore, but said
that the Strait of Hormuz must stay open
to all ships. Now, let's see, is he a
liar, a blatant liar like Putin is? Who
knows? We don't know. For these two
issues, China is willing to help the
United States specifically for
negotiations. A reporter asked President
Donald J. Trump if he rejected the
latest proposal from Iran and why. Trump
answered, "Well, I looked at it
and
if I don't like the first sentence, I
just throw it away." A reporter asked,
"What was the first sentence?" Trump
answered, "An unacceptable sentence
because they have fully agreed to
because they have fully agreed no
nuclear and if they have any nuclear of
any form, I don't read the rest of it.
In other words,
it's an unacceptable sentence because
they have fully agreed no nuclear. They
didn't agree no nuclear. In other words,
that I'm sorry if I'm confusing you
there." A reporter interrupted and
asked, "So, 20 years is not enough for
you? It's got to be permanent. In other
words, they asked for 20 years no
nuclear." Trump answered, "No, 20 years
is enough, but the level of guarantees
from them, in other words, is got to be
a real 20 years." In other words, he
doesn't want them to lie. The art of the
deal means you don't read past the first
sentence.
A reporter asked, "Would the US defend
Taiwan if it came to a war with China?
Like if China Who would they defend?"
President Donald J. Trump answered, "I
don't want to say that. I'm not going to
say that. There is only one person that
knows that, and you know who it is, me.
I'm the only person. That question was
asked to me today by President Xi. I
said, 'I don't talk about that.'"
A New York Times reporter asked, "What
if What the US would gain if it resumed
bombing Iran?" And asked about China
offering to help end the conflict. Trump
answered by calling the reporter's
coverage treasonous.
And he said,
he said, he and the Chinese president
agree Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,
and the Strait of Hormuz must be
reopened. But he added, "We don't need
any favors."
A reporter asked President Trump what
Chinese President Xi Jinping said about
the United States during their meetings.
Trump answered, "He said America is the
hottest country in the world. He said
under Joe Biden, it was a declining
country, doing really poorly. What we've
done is a virtual miracle." He said way
more than that. We have no borders and
all that.
All right.
Trump said that nobody wants to take
over the leadership in Iran. Since the
first and second level leaders have been
killed, the third level leaders do not
want to take responsibility. But Trump
thinks they're much more reasonable and
in many ways smarter than the previous
regime. According to Iran, its supreme
leader Mojtaba Khamenei is now in
complete health after healing from his
injuries. His aide said that Khamenei's
foot and lower back was slightly injured
in the Israeli bombing, obviously, and
that a small piece of shrapnel had hit
him behind his ear, but that the wounds
are healing.
But he has still hasn't been seen in
public, so we don't know if that's true
or not. Right now, the main generals
heading the country are Masoud
Pezeshkian, Ahmad Vahidi, Mohammad
Bagher Ghalibaf, who's the parliament
member, we mention him a lot here,
Alireza Arafi, and Gholamhossein Mohseni
Ejei.
Or Ejei.
If you know who that is, who cares,
right? Here. Here you have them. CENTCOM
Commander Admiral Brad Cooper
updated lawmakers in Washington about
Operation Epic Fury, or now we don't
know the name. Now, he said the US
destroyed much of Iran's and naval power
and that 90% of Iran's defense industry
is destroyed. So, Iran cannot launch
huge missile attacks anymore. But,
Cooper warned that Iran's military is
still dangerous. CENTCOM stopped 76
commercial ships linked to Iran,
including a suspected floated a floating
weapon ship, a big weapons ship that,
you know, has guns and all kind of
things near the UAE. US lawmakers failed
to pass the proposed law that basically
would a limit Trump's war powers against
Iran. So, now Israel and the US are
planning possible new attacks on Iranian
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All right, next story. 90-year-old
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas,
you know who he is? Mahmoud Abbas. The
President Mahmoud Abbas has been
reelected. Of course, he was, right? He
is now the chairman of the Fatah
movement. During a majority vote, Abbas
demanded the release of all Palestinian
prisoners and funds for their
pay-to-kill fund. Do you know what that
means? They want more money to pay
Palestinians to murder Jews. He is
specifically named convicted terrorist
Marwan Barghouti as his top priority.
Barghouti became increasingly popular
before he was arrested because he was a
leader of demonstrations and the youth.
The internationally recognized
government of Yemen and the Houthi
terrorists, you must remember, reached a
major prisoner exchange agreement this
week. They've agreed to release more
than 1,600 prisoners captured during the
war. This is the largest exchange since
the conflict began in 2014. The Houthi
group will release 580 prisoners. These
captives include soldiers from Saudi
Arabia and Sudan who had been fighting
on behalf of the Yemeni government
coalition. In return, the Yemeni
government will release 1,100 Houthi
prisoners. Now, the agreement was
negotiated during talks backed by the
United Nations in Jordan. The Red Cross
is expected to help carry out the
massive swap.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of
Israel, said
that Israel now controls 60% of Gaza.
The IDF
issued evacuation warnings in eastern
Deir al-Balah, and local military team
is now working to carry out this
evacuation. Israelis also preparing to
stop a flotilla heading to Gaza from
Turkey. We spoke about this a few times
already. These 50 boats carry around 500
activists who left Turkey and include
the Turkish Humanitarian Relief
Foundation IHH. They have asked Turkey
to to that, but they didn't listen.
We will see how that turns out. The
chief rabbi of Tzfat
Now, it's a very controversial situation
subject this obviously might I tell you.
Rav Shmuel Eliyahu has made a call for
the construction of a permanent shul on
Har HaBayit.
That's that's a little bit of a a
stretch. He called on the Israeli
Knesset to approve this building project
immediately. He stated he believes it is
time for Yidden to have a dedicated
place of daven on the site of the Holy
of the Samikdash. This statement has
already generated significant immediate
public reaction, both outrage and of
course support from different
communities.
I'm here to report the stories and the
facts. Israel signed a $34 million deal
to build
external fuel tanks, external fuel tanks
that which is attached to the F-35
fighter jets.
Now, they carry massive bombs already,
but if they carry external fuel tanks,
the tanks will let the jets fly much
further away and farther at distances,
which is a very good without needing to
refuel too much. The High Court in
Israel rejected concerns from the
Attorney General about incoming Mossad
chief Roman Gofman. Roman Gofman, the
Attorney General claimed that Gofman may
have tried to influence the outcome of
the court petitions. These were filed
against his appointment
during recent meetings with Mossad
officials. The High Court dismissed the
concerns. Well, he's coming in.
Groups of Haredi from protesters made a
outside the home of Israel's military
police chief. They protested the Haredi
draft bill and the the arrests of the
draft dodgers of Bachurim that they
arrested recently with tricks like pizza
delivery guys and other things that they
did, very not nice things. The Israeli
government is now pushing to pass a
large five-year plan that directs
hundreds of millions of shekels towards
the Haredi Moises and communities. This
move comes, obviously, and we reported
here as the coalition tries to
fast-track several major laws before the
potential dissolution um dissolution of
the Knesset.
Harav Lamba ordered them to dissolve the
Knesset. Reports say Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is using this
spending package specifically to protect
himself and encourage Hariri parties not
to back out and not to back an early
election date on the September. The
five-year plan mandates that 25%
of the education ministry's construction
budget must be allocated for these
specific community projects.
Talks for lasting agreement between
Israel and Lebanon
are happening right now. It's still
happening in Washington. Representatives
from Israel and Lebanon are talking face
to face. Hezbollah Yimach Shmo U'Zichro
have publicly stated it is against these
Washington talks. Obviously, they are.
This is making people in Lebanon very
afraid. They don't They worry that
Hezbollah is going to escalate things
and may start killing people inside the
country to stop them deal with being
stop the deal from being finalized and
stop them deal with the Zionist
movement.
All right, let's talk about the next
part of the news. Rav Yisrael Chaim
Leiberman,
Hashem Yinkom Damo. Sorry, I made a
mistake. This is I'm remembering Yisrael
Leiberman from yesterday. Zechuto
Zechrono Livracha passed away yesterday
at age 98. He lived in Lakewood and
formerly lived in Borough Park. He was a
Holocaust survivor
and had a connection to the generation
of Torah Yidden from before the
Milchamah, which is amazing is is a
major deal.
Passed away yesterday. May his neshama
have an aliyah and be a mensch for all
of us in Shabbos Kodesh Rosh Chodesh
Sivan.
Davening for Davening for our healing,
the Gellis Shleima.
Yep, he suffered and went through the
concentration camps.
We'll talk about my grandfather's
yahrzeit as well. It was yesterday. I
mean, they declared his yahrzeit
yesterday because nobody knows when he
was killed. My great-grandfather, the
Machluta Reb Chaim Leiberman,
his yahrzeit was Chof Zayin. That's what
they declared it to get along with his
wife.
The Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg has
begun a four-day Eastern Europe journey
known as Bonei Olam.
Bonei Olam, the Rebbe arrived by private
jet. It was a major
um
It was a major um um what's a um cer-
cer- celebration outside in the streets
to begleiten the Rebbe on a private
plane to the Romanian city of Satmar
this morning. And later visiting Sighet
for a l'chaim in the local shul
courtyard there at the kever of this
Mach Moishe
Satmar Rebbe's Rebbe's zaidas.
The Rebbe
was crying while davening for the
children of Klal Yisrael for the geulah
shleimah. And did this right before
reciting obviously the tehillim of the
shluch kodesh which you can do today by
the way is Erev Shavuos 7. And the Rebbe
prepares to spend Shabbos in Krakow.
The Belzer Steipler of MDY
his chevre went to Morocco with all his
students and talmidim. They visited the
kever of uh
um Sol Lala Solisha Solisia or Solisi.
I'm not sure the name exactly, but she
was basically on the day of her
yahrtzeit the daf yomi maggid shiur was
joined by the daf yomi maggid shiur was
joined by major donors and supporters.
Obviously at the kever the group prayed
sincerely for all the talmidim, all the
people that learn for the for the
MDY obviously and all of Klal Yisrael.
She was killed al kiddush Hashem
because she was killed after she refused
to convert to Islam and marry a local
Islam- Islamic man there. She was
killed. Which that which is why they
went to the kever and honor her
her yahrtzeit which is which was
yesterday or two two days ago. The chief
rabbi of Ukraine Reb Moshe Asman wrote
to the foreign minister. He asked the
government to stop treating Israel
differently than other countries. The
issue is a ship loaded with Russian
wheat which Ukraine claims was stolen
from territories taken by Russia. Last
month the Ukrainian foreign minister
trea- um threatened to end talks if the
ship docked in Haifa. Because of this
threat Israel refused to unload the
cargo.
The ship sailed to Turkey and is now
selling the wheat there. Rabbi Asman
said the Ukrainian government must now
work to stop the sale to Turkey. He said
that they should not they should apply
the same exact pressure they used
against Israel against Turkey, too.
A $15 billion dollar deal for Sazerac
Sazerac, I think it's pronounced that,
to buy Jack Daniel's was canceled.
Sazerac is owned by a Jewish Goldring
family and doesn't perform obviously
they don't keep they're not religious
and they never made comments on
Passover. If the company bought Jack
Daniel's, all of that whiskey could
become
kosher
for Passover, which is basically
forbidden to drink. Because of the
purchase was canceled, Jack Daniel's
will not have to be removed from tables
to change conditions and so forth.
Otherwise, it would be a major problem
because a Jewish a Jew owns it and they
don't sell their comments.
Two Scottish Green politicians wore pro
wore pro-Palestine scarves during their
oath ceremony and critics called it an
extremist political stunt.
Now, the next story a California
Superior
court judge ordered the
the organization Cars for Kids to stop
advertising. They said that the
organization violated local laws against
false advertising and unfair
competition. People said that the
charity misled donors because it didn't
reveal its Orthodox Jewish mission. They
said that the Cars for Kids failed to
say that the donation money basically
was not going to uh underprivileged kids
in California. It was only going instead
to Orthodox Jewish program in New York
and in New Jersey.
Hundreds of people lined the streets of
Golders Green yesterday. Ooh, that was a
major deal to welcome King Charles III.
He visited to show his support for the
local Jewish community who are the
victims of an anti-Semitic attack
recently. Those you remember the story,
this included a recent ambulance fire
and obviously a terrorist stabbing.
Joined by Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis
and King and the King personally met
with Rabbi Moshe Schein
and Rabbi [ __ ] around who both were
attacked if you remember back during the
during the stabbing attack, both men
were seriously wounded and spent time
recovering in hospital from their
injuries. Baruch Hashem, they're back.
They're healthy. The King wanted to
personally offer support and praise
their bravery and miraculous survival.
King Charles
also walked along
uh among local Jewish shops, received
gifts, challah, and other things, and
thanked volunteers from Shomrim and
Hatzalah for their dedication to the
neighborhood's safety.
Police in Alice Springs, Australia,
arrested a man for publicly showing a
swastika tattoo. The 25-year-old man was
officially charged for tattoo for this
tattoo on his leg.
Antisemitism. I spoke yesterday about
the story, and people have asked me and
called me. They didn't understand why I
said just for having that name he should
be arrested. Well, I said it on a man
who's actually an antisemite who wanted
to poison Jewish children. So, yes, I
said it on him. I made a joke about his
name.
So, you mock a person like that. At
least the least I can do for I wouldn't
even call him a person. He's an animal.
Somebody has like just like this this
Dan Bella, whatever his name is, are
also a Nazi individual who his mission
is to kill Jews. That's all he wants. He
wants to kill Jews. He said he wants to
run for something in Florida. He wants
to run for politics.
So, yeah, these people need to be
need to be treated this way. So,
obviously, I mocked him and made fun of
him because he is an antisemite, a big
antisemite. He basically loves Hitler
and Amachelly. He wants to see the Jews
finished. And somebody actually pointed
out something that the fact that the the
this kid, the man I mentioned his name
should be arrested just for having that
name, besides the the criminal um
action that he the criminal the the
crime that he wanted to commit, which is
giving poisonous poison candy to
children to do his children,
the fact that he doesn't know anything
about Jews because he doesn't realize
that Jews keep kosher. The fact that he
didn't know that means that they don't
know anything. They learn everything
from the internet, and that's when they
come and commit their crimes.
The The is education. They don't know,
and the internet is poisonous to them.
And that's what happened. It poisons
their heads with such
such with such terrible things. Anyway,
President Donald J. Trump his Shabbos
250 ooh proclamation officially begins
tonight today. The proclamation calls
for Americans to observe a national
Jewish Shabbos from Friday evening until
Motzei Shabbos Kodesh.
It's Shabbos he has to run.
It is time. He's coming over from China.
He's all busy now.
Quickly make for this and that. Shabbos
Shabbos Kodesh. Shabbos Kodesh. Shabbos
Kodesh. It's the first time a sitting US
president has publicly called for a
national Shabbos observance.
The event is part of a Jewish American
Heritage Month and the 250th anniversary
of the United States. Trump said,
"People of all backgrounds can use the
day of rest, prayer, reflection, and
gratitude."
I'll just mentioning that go issue of
Shabbos Mitzvah. So, you have to be
careful with that. It's very important.
It's not really a you know, the issue.
At least turn them off. Switch the
lights on or something like that. Do
drive or whatever if you're not
obviously if you're not a Yid.
Trump's approval ratings are falling
ahead of the US midterm elections.
Many voters are unhappy about inflation,
the economy, and foreign policy. Polls
show Democrats are doing better in some
areas. However, Republicans may still
keep control of Congress because of
gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is when a
voting district
voting districts are changed to help one
political party. Republican-led states
change district maps in what ways that
may help Republicans win more seats, but
Democrats say the new maps are unfair.
Experts say they're doing the same thing
by the way. District changes could make
it harder for Democrats to win the House
even if Trump stays unpopular.
Vice President J.D. Vance spoke in
Bangor, Maine in on Tuesday on Thursday
ahead of the primary elections the
midterm elections.
He accused Democrats or ahead of the
primary elections obviously.
Republicans said, "He accused Democrats
of refusing to stop fraud by voting
against measures called the Save Act
bill. Vance also specifically called out
Governor Mills during the event where
hundreds of supporters want waited for
hours to hear him speak. Donald Trump
supporters supports this specific
criticism again against Democrats. Trump
often refers to Democrats as the
Democrats saying that the group is
sometimes represented by low IQ
individuals.
The FBI is offering $200,000 rewards for
information about Monica Witt, a former
US Air Force intelligence officer
accused of spying for Iran.
Now officials say Witt escaped to Iran
in 2013. There she shared classified US
defense information with the Iranian
government. The FBI believes she may
still be helping Iran today.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog canceled
the trip to New York next week. His
office said well
though they thought first of all it was
because of circumstances right now.
Um you know, uh because he's scared that
Trump is again going to push him to
pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and he doesn't want to, but his office
declined that and said no, that's not
the reason he canceled his trip. The US
military canceled plans to send 4,000
troops to Poland. Secretary of War Pete
Hoekstra made this decision because
Trump wants to lower the number of
American soldiers in Europe. US defense
officials said they were surprised by
the decision.
Trump's Justice Department expanded the
lawsuit against Washington D.C. The city
The legal action now targets the city's
ban on gun suppressors. This adds to the
existing challenge against the city's
ban on big AR-15 rifle guns used for
hunting.
A US appeals court restored a $655
million judgment against the Palestinian
Authority and the PLO. The money will go
to American families who were hurt and
victims by the terrorism during the
Second Intifada.
The Trump administration is creating a
new unit to deport green card holders
tied to violent crimes or gangs. Senator
Tom Cotton also introduced the bill
against family members of terrorists
living in the US, which is very similar
to the previous one we said. Top 10
trendy Aragua gang leader named
Chuqui or Chuqui was surrendered
basically from Colombia to the US. He
faces terrorism and drug charges. The
deal the DEA is monitoring the port of
Vancouver in Canada right now. Officials
say chemicals of fentanyl production
enter through that port. The drugs are
later smuggled into the United States.
They're monitoring it. Donald J. Trump
may may drop his $10 billion dollar
lawsuit against the Internal Revenue
Service IRS. Reports say he will end the
massive lawsuit in exchange for the
creation of a new one a new 1.7 billion
dollar compensation fund. This money
would be used to com- to compensate his
political allies who claim they were
wrongfully targeted and obviously
defamation by the current
administration.
Or the previous administration. Justice
Department is reportedly considering
Well, he means Democratic side
obviously. It's considering the
settlement which Democrats are already
condemning as a slush fund. The US
Senate moved this week to stop paying
lawmakers during any future government
shutdowns which is a major move. The
resolution advanced with an unanimous
vote
100 to zero showing agreement that
senators should also feel the impact of
a lapse in funding which is amazing
thing. No pay no play.
Yesterday we reported that Kevin Warsh
was confirmed as the new Federal Reserve
chair. After this announcement Federal
Reserve Governor Steven Mnuchin
submitted um Steven Mnuchin Mnuchin
Steven Steven Mnuchin Steven Mnuchin
whatever his name is or her name is I
don't know. You see I'm very Oh, there
he is. There we go. Submitted his
resignation. He said he will step down
right after Warsh is officially sworn
into office. I'm sorry I didn't know the
name but it's okay. Let's move on,
right?
Three senators want the US government to
invest into American lithium supplies.
You know the lithium batteries, you know
what I mean. The lawmakers want the
department to invest directly into
American lithium supply chains for
everyday electronics and of advanced
military gear. They said that a massive
untapped lithium deposit is that a
massive untapped um lithium deposit is
sitting underground across the southern
United States.
United States is sitting on liquid gold
besides that. New York City police
bulldozed more than 200
200 illegal motorcycles, scooters,
scooters and motorcycles in Staten
Island on Tuesday. The city is taking
strong action against unregistered bikes
on the streets. Police say they have
seized over 5,700 illegal vehicles since
the start of the year. This comes after
a terrible tragedy last month and only a
10% growth in that, by the way. On April
1st, by the way, a 7-month-old baby was
killed
by a stray bullet in Brooklyn drive-by
shooting. The shooters got away on such
illegal mopeds.
In other New York City news, the city is
is changing rules for property taxes.
They lowered the starting point for a
new second home tax. If you have a
second home, used to be $5 million that
you have to pay extra tax, now it went
down to $1 million. Officials are also
talking about adding a new tax on people
who buy homes with cash.
I guess Mandani's trying all different
ways to get more money. At the same
time, store owners are facing new street
rules. Businesses are now required to
install see-through security gates
instead of solid metal ones. Store
owners are very unhappy with this
change. They say the clear gates will
cost them a lot of money to install and
could actually lead to more break-ins.
A 42-year-old man in Florida named Brett
Blackman was found guilty of stealing $1
billion from taxpayers. He ran a massive
scheme that tricked Medicare patients.
Blackman used foreign
call centers to push elderly people into
accepting medical braces they didn't
even need. He then paid doctors to write
fake prescriptions without ever checking
the patients. The false bills were sent
straight to the government. Reports say
Blackman and his wife used the stolen
money to pay for a highly expensive
lifestyle. Before being caught, they
showed off gold chains and luxury items
on the internet. He will be sentenced in
August and faces up to 20 years in
prison.
What a way to trade gold chains for iron
chains. The US Department of Justice is
dropping fraud charges against Indian
billionaire
Gautam Adani.
Prosecutors say he originally planned to
pay $250 million in bribes. The case is
now being closed after Adani hired
President Trump's personal lawyer Robert
J
um Robert J someone.
His legal team promised that Adani will
invest $10 billion into the United
States economy if the case is dismissed.
Now, they say this massive investment
will also create 15,000 new jobs. All
right.
Divers found a homemade underwater bomb
at the base of the Alabama Dam. This dam
holds drinking water supply for an
entire city. The divers apparently found
the bomb while they were doing some
routine maintenance on the dam.
Officials in Illinois lost track of
hundreds of suspects wearing ankle
monitors. Officials warned that the
tracking system has major flaws. So,
some of the people with ankle monitors
ignored violations and later committed
violent crimes.
Should I say
36 countries approved plans to create a
special court again against Russia's
invasion of Ukraine. The court will try
to charge Russian leaders for the crime
of aggression. Those two support the
plan
Those who support the plan are European
countries, Australia, Costa Rica, and
the European Union. Ukraine has pushed
for the court since Russia invaded in
2022.
And it hopes that it will bring justice
and accountability. The court is
expected to focus on top Russian
political and military leaders. How they
will get them, I don't know. At least 96
people died after dust storms and heavy
rain hit northern India.
The heavy rain and lightning moved
through um
Uttar and Uttar Pradesh. Don't remember
the name. Don't know the name. Anyway,
in the most populated states in India.
Many deaths happen because of falling
trees and damaged buildings.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing
a revolt inside the Labour Party. You
already know this. Health Secretary Wes
Streeting resigned because he lost
confidence in Starmer. And Andy Burnham
and Angela Rayner may also challenge the
full leadership. In other words, they
want to take over. CIA Director John
Ratcliffe made a very rare trip to
Havana. He gave Cuban officials a direct
demand. Ratcliffe said the United States
will only talk about trade and safety if
Cuban government makes real basic
changes and they make concessions. He
wants Cuba to share intelligence and
stop protecting groups that are against
the US. After the meeting, Havana let
Havana let let let a political prisoner
go free on Thursday. The pressure comes
as the US Justice Department gets ready
to file official charges against former
Cuban President Raul Castro. The charges
are connected to when the Cuban
government shut down US planes 30 years
ago. Cuba is dealing with a total
breakdown of its basic system. The
country's energy minister said that the
island has run completely out of oil and
diesel fuel. This is causing blackouts
the last 22 hours every single day,
stopping hospitals from working and
causing trouble among the people. Even
with these terrible problems, the Cuban
government today said no to a 100
million-dollar aid package from the
United States that was meant to help the
Cuban people in exchange for obviously
these demands. They said no to it. Can
you imagine? They don't care about their
people. A man got back his Bitcoin
wallet after losing his password for 11
years. Now,
this wallet had five Bitcoin, which is
worth about 6.5 million South African
rand, which is more than 360,000
US dollars. Now, obviously, 11 years
ago, Bitcoin wasn't worth much. When he
bought it then, it was very cheap. Now,
he forgot his password, but after
changing it many, many years ago, you
know. Now, with the new technology
available, he used Claude the to help
find the password. The AI checked old
files through using co-work, right? Or
dispatch or co-work. They have a section
on the computer by the way. You could
just tell it to do things and it starts
searching for files. It searches all the
computer and found an old wallet file
with a clue. The man then unlocked the
wallet successfully. He said it had
tried trillions of password before.
Experts said the AI did not break
Bitcoin's security, obviously. They said
the AI only helped search for old files
and information. The story shows how AI
can help solve difficult computer
problems.
And he made himself three over $300,000.
How wonderful is that, right? With AI.
Sometimes AI can help you. Anyway, my
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Yesterday, the 27th
27th day of Iyar, which is Chof Zayin
Iyar Mach, the Yahrzeit of seven several
Yidden, Hashem Yinkom Dumo, who were
murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis, and
we remember my my grand my
great-grandfather, Reb Nachum HaCohen
Schwartz, Hashem Yinkom Dumo, and his
wife, Pearl.
Hashem Yinkom Yinkom Dumo, from the city
of Tokai. Rebbe Tokai we called him.
He was a very special person. He was one
of the most important Hasidim of Rebbe
Shayale Kerestir. He was so close to
Rebbe Shayale that the Rebbe Shayale
used to call him the Koin Gadol of
Tokai. That's what he called him. He was
also known for pressing grapes every
year with a minyan of men who went to
the mikvah just to make pure wine for
the Belzer Rebbe's four cups on Pesach.
This is interesting story, but his true
greatness showed up showed at the very,
very end in the spring of 1944. The
Nazis and the Mashgichim forced the Jews
of Tokai into the cattle cars for a
terrible trip to
to the end, to Auschwitz.
During that train ride, Rebbe Tokai
gathered his whole family together and
he told them that they need to be happy
because they were going to be fulfilling
a great mitzvah of making a Kiddush
Hashem.
Actually, my aunt's great aunt Rivka who
passed away um beginning of last week, I
think it was, they arrived to Auschwitz
on the morning of Shabbos.
And she mentioned this as well. She was
there. She was there, but she was saved,
obviously, together with my grandfather
who was saved.
And they remember him standing in the
lines, obviously, rechts, links, links,
rechts. He went links and never came
back.
He held up his tefillin and he showed my
grandfather to take it, but
if he would have done that,
my grandfather would have done that, he
probably would have been killed because
there was a Nazi sitting there, but one
officer looked at my grandfather, or I
think he was a
I guess one of the Gestapo,
um told my grandfather, my grandfather,
his basically
his grandson. He was his grandson.
Um my grandfather, he helps my great,
great grandfather. Anyways, the point is
he told him to stay and not to go not to
go over there, not to take the tefillin
because he's going to get himself killed
and many others. So, he didn't. He felt
so bad until like his last day, my
grandfather remember this, but obviously
during the war he had a major story
there where he came into his dream and
he actually saved his life by something
that he told him that he was very sick
with ty- with a with a typhoon with this
with this uh
typh- sorry, disease excuse me
and he gave him
remedy he told him to take he was
working in the kitchen so he told him
take a brick from the oven underneath
the oven and put it on your chest with a
wet rag if you can he worked in the
kitchen my grandfather in Auschwitz and
so he told him to take that and put on
his chest and he'll wake up feeling fine
he did exactly that and he actually woke
up feeling much better which was a major
miracle then it's a story that he wrote
and actually he felt like okay this was
kind of a you know he felt bad because
he didn't take his film but he was
anyway sent to be killed and it was very
very sad and it happened on this day
because this is the day that they left
and they the Nazis took them away.
So let's remember the names Mrs. Mrs.
Malka Schwartz and her children Yeshaya
Yeshaya Ruchol
Yita Yita Malia
Laya Yehudis and Miriam
and also Mrs. Chana Gittel Roth and her
children Dof Gedaliah Ruchol and
Mordechai Yitzchak
all of them
all of them were killed by the Nazis
in that light let us all
go into Shabbos Shabbos skin Shabbos
let's clean up all that mess like Trump
said
and that's our news round up for the day
have yourself a wonderful Shabbos
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