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Recap: Jordie gets a text message to come to Zevi’s house and bring the envelope. Aunt Ellie is wary, but the boys decide to go. When they get there, a woman in a burka answers, and she seems familiar. Zevi sees a mole on her finger and realizes that she’s Alikah Ahmar, the terrorist. Her voice sounds like the woman he’d lent his phone to. He makes an excuse that he forgot the envelope. The woman calls for someone named Omar. Zevi and Jordie run away. They pass a little girl named Shaindy, and they tell her to take the envelope and give it to her mother. Then they run away and shimmy up a tree. They call the police and, while they are sitting in the tree waiting for the police, Zevi takes out Nana’s journal and they begin to read.

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This week’s haftarah tells the story of Yirmiyahu HaNavi’s purchase of land when catastrophe loomed over Israel. This command from Hashem seemed to make no sense, even to the Navi who wrote it, but he listened to the Ribbono shel Olam, Who told him, “Behold! I am Hashem, the G-d of all flesh. Is anything hidden from Me?”

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 During the Manhattan hush money trial against former President Donald Trump, Judge Juan Merchan cleared the courtroom following a contentious exchange involving defense witness Robert Costello. Costello, who previously advised Michael Cohen, was brought in to discredit Cohen’s testimony. However, Costello’s demeanor, including shaking his head and making audible comments in response to the judge’s rulings led to repeated objections from the prosecution and visible frustration from Judge Merchan.

“After the attack on October 7, there was a lot of anxiety around school security,” says Rabbi Baruch Rothman, Darchei Torah’s director of institutional advancement. “Parents worried about sending their children to school. We took some very visible and concrete steps to increase our security.” This alleviated the anxiety, but it came at a high financial cost.”