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The federal government shutdown will cause slight permanent harm to the economy — about $3 billion — according to a report Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.

The report says the five-week shutdown has slowed growth in the near term but that most of the lost growth “will eventually be recovered.”

Overall, CBO predicts that just $3 billion in lost gross domestic product will be permanently lost, a modest figure in a $20 trillion-plus economy.

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Israel says it is suspending operations of an international observer force in Hebron after over 20 years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Monday it would not extend the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, saying “we will not allow the continuation of an international force that acts against us.” It did not give a timeframe for the observers’ exit.

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All those Jew-haters advocating for BDS and boycotts against Israel better hope they don’t get cancer. Israeli researchers say that they will likely have a cure for cancer within a year, according to The Jerusalem Post.

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There is much speculation among political analysts regarding a united centrist left-wing bloc in the upcoming Knesset elections, and this seems to have led to a major campaign effort to create just that ahead of elections for the 21st Knesset.

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Several members of New Jersey’s Congressional delegation accompanied Gov. Phil Murphy to tour the crumbling Hudson River rail tunnel Monday, marking the latest effort to put pressure on federal officials to end a funding impasse that has effectively derailed a $13 billion plan to build a new tunnel.

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The displaced residents of the Netiv HaAvot neighborhood of Yishuv Elazar in Gush Etzion are quite vocal in their disdain for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. These are the former homeowners ousted from their houses in June 2018 by a Supreme Court decision, recognizing a minimal area of the community was on private Arab land.

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Polish prosecutors are investigating an anti-Semitic protest by dozens of far-right nationalists outside the gates of Auschwitz.

The incident took place Sunday in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated Auschwitz during World War II.

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Comedian and divisive former television star Roseanne Barr says her sitcom was canceled last year because of backlash against her support for Israel.

Barr spoke Monday at an event in Tel Aviv and said she had been “BDS-ed” by television network ABC.

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Senator Simcha Felder called on Mayor de Blasio to adopt an innovative “Food for Fines” program in NYC allowing New Yorkers to receive a reduction of their parking ticket fines for donated canned goods.

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It’s known as “the theater committee” for its high profile, high-drama role investigating President Donald Trump’s White House. And now, five of the fieriest Democratic freshmen in the House are players on that stage.

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Five Houston officers were injured during a shooting Monday and have been taken to a hospital, police said.

In a tweet, Houston police said the officers were “struck with gunfire following an encounter with a suspect” Monday afternoon in a neighborhood in southeast Houston.

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Hamas is planning to continue increasing hostile actions in southern Israel until the April 9, 2019 Knesset elections, hoping this will increase the number of votes among those who believe a peace agreement must be hammered out between Israel and Hamas.

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A federal judge in Florida has ordered $1 billion in payments and fines in a fraud scheme that fleeced thousands of investors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a news release Monday that the Woodbridge Group of Companies and its former owner were ordered to pay the money to investors as well as civil fines and interest.

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A Washington state baker is apologizing for a politically charged Valentine’s Day cookie that generated an uproar on social media.

KING-TV reports that Ken Bellingham, who owns Edmonds Bakery, has gotten phone calls from frustrated customers about the heart-shaped cookie with “Build that Wall” in frosting letters.

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Israel’s Health Minister on Monday, January 28, 2019, issued alerts for passengers who traveled on buses servicing cities which have major chareidi population centers.

The ministry alert states, “we would like to inform persons who were born from 1957 and after and have not been immunized against measles, both doses, to report to a ministry office near their home as soon as possible to get vaccinated”.

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The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on the state-owned oil company of Venezuela, a potentially critical economic move aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to cede power to the opposition in the South American nation.

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The state has asked the High Court of Justice to reject a petition that appears on the docket for Tuesday, January 29, 2019, which deals with bringing chametz into hospitals during Pesach.

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Heavy snow and powerful wind created blizzard-like conditions Monday across parts of the Midwest, prompting officials to cancel about 1,000 flights in Chicago and close hundreds of schools in several states.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Monday invited President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address on February 5.

The invitation from Pelosi comes after a planned January 29 date to give the address was scuttled due to the partial government shutdown.

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Yud Shvat (the 10th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat) is a significant date on the Chabad calendar. It is the yahrtzeit or anniversary of passing of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, HaRav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn ZATZAL (1880–1950).

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