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[The Old Broom and the Wet Schach Conundrum]( [The Old Broom and the Wet Schach Conundrum]( Rabbi Yair Hoffman So now that the National Weather Service is predicting a lull – in the rain, the question arises as to whether or not you can take a broom and shake off the excess rain that is trapped around the Schach on Shabbos tonight after it stops raining. A Chashuv Talmid Chochom […] [Read More »]( [WATCH: Airport Mayhem as Flooding in Terminals Sends Travelers Fleeing]( [WATCH: Airport Mayhem as Flooding in Terminals Sends Travelers Fleeing]( (VINnews) — Travelers attempting to leave New York via LaGuardia Airport on Friday were faced with ankle-deep water and huge delays, as a result of downpours and flooding. The airport was forced to close Terminal A — used by Spirit and Frontier airlines — as floodwaters bombarded the facility. Photos and videos posted online […] [Read More »]( [The Real War in Taiwan]( [The Real War in Taiwan]( Shlomi and Racheli Tabib, Chabad of Taiwan   Shalom and Ni Hao: Jewish Life in Taiwan   By: Chaya Chazan   PDF VERSION   “You know, there’s this place in Hong Kong that could really use a Shliach. It’s called Kowloon,” a yeshiva friend of mine told me, after he visited the city.   […] [Read More »]( [A Jewish Cemetery in Belarus Was Destroyed by Nazis. Now Its Headstones Are Being Made Into a Memorial.]( [A Jewish Cemetery in Belarus Was Destroyed by Nazis. Now Its Headstones Are Being Made Into a Memorial.]( (JTA) – Earlier this year, the local Jewish community of Brest, Belarus received a call from a young couple who had just purchased a fixer-upper house and needed some help with a difficult situation: Their basement was built from old Jewish gravestones. For nearly two decades, the Jewish community — and in recent years, […] [Read More »]( [VIDEO: Flooding in Orthodox Jewish Communities in Brooklyn]( [VIDEO: Flooding in Orthodox Jewish Communities in Brooklyn]( (VINnews) — With Succos approaching, multiple Jewish communities have been impacted by the intense rain and flooding. FOOTAGE OF FLOODING ON OCEAN PKWY: FOOTAGE OF WILLIAMSBURG:   [Read More »]( [Man in Peru Charged With Making Recent Bomb Threats to Us Synagogues, FBI Says]( [Man in Peru Charged With Making Recent Bomb Threats to Us Synagogues, FBI Says]( (JTA) – Authorities in Peru have arrested a 33-year-old man who the FBI has charged with making a string of bomb threats targeting U.S. Jewish institutions, including synagogues on Rosh Hashanah. Jewish groups expressed gratitude for the FBI’s efforts to track down the person behind the bomb threats. But one group that has been […] [Read More »]( [State Of Emergency: Storm Floods New York City Area, Pouring Into Subways and Swamping Streets]( [State Of Emergency: Storm Floods New York City Area, Pouring Into Subways and Swamping Streets]( YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city’s subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport. Up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain fell in some areas overnight, and as much as […] [Read More »]( [Putin Orders Former Wagner Commander to Take Charge of ‘Volunteer Units’ in Ukraine]( [Putin Orders Former Wagner Commander to Take Charge of ‘Volunteer Units’ in Ukraine]( – Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of “volunteer units” fighting in Ukraine, signaling the Kremlin’s effort to keep using the mercenaries after the death of their chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In remarks released by the Kremlin on Friday, Putin told Andrei […] [Read More »]( [Wonder Group Buying Meal Kit Company Blue Apron for About $103 Million]( [Wonder Group Buying Meal Kit Company Blue Apron for About $103 Million]( YORK (AP) – Wonder Group is buying meal kit company Blue Apron for about $103 million as the company looks to enhance its offerings. Wonder Group, which was founded by e-commerce mogul Marc Lore, began with vans that would deliver meals to residences, making the final preparations curbside. But the company faced push back […] [Read More »]( [Tel Aviv Bars Nonprofit’s Sukkot Events After Public Fiasco on Yom Kippur]( [Tel Aviv Bars Nonprofit’s Sukkot Events After Public Fiasco on Yom Kippur]( (JNS) – The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality on Thursday revoked a nonprofit’s permits to hold public events during the weeklong Sukkot holiday. The decision comes after radical secular protesters forcefully prevented Rosh Yehudi, a Jewish outreach group, from holding an outdoor Yom Kippur with separate sections for men and women earlier in the week. A municipality hearing […] [Read More »]( [US Quietly Acknowledges Iran Satellite Successfully Reached Orbit as Tensions Remain High]( [US Quietly Acknowledges Iran Satellite Successfully Reached Orbit as Tensions Remain High]( United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The U.S. military has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The […] [Read More »]( [Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California Dies at 90]( [Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California Dies at 90]( (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90. Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The […] [Read More »]( [When it Rains on the First Day of Sukkos]( [When it Rains on the First Day of Sukkos]( Rabbi Yair Hoffman Well, it doesn’t seem to be such good news for those anticipating  a dry Sukkos tonight.  Why?  Because the National Weather Service has not only stated that non-stop rain is expected to drench the five boroughs along with Long Island and parts of New Jersey, but they even issued a flood […] [Read More »]( [White House announces Civil Rights Act applies to forms of antisemitism]( [White House announces Civil Rights Act applies to forms of antisemitism]( — The Biden administration is touting what it regards as a “landmark” move in the implementation of its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. “Eight federal agencies clarified—for the first time in writing—that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits certain forms of antisemitic, Islamophobic, and related forms of discrimination in federally […] [Read More »]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2023 Vos Is Neias, All rights reserved. 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