By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman
“It’s just not going!” Sometimes, that’s how we feel, isn’t it? Whether it’s the davening, the learning, being a kind husband and father. You fill in the blank. We try. Oh, how we try. And sometimes (maybe even oftentimes?) it just feels like we’re up against a brick wall. And then the worry can start to creep in. What’s going to be?! What’s going to be with teshuva? With my gezeirah for the new year? With…

Merlin Entertainments, the parent company of Legoland, announced Wednesday that the long-awaited Town of Goshen park near Route 17′s Exit 125 will open on July 4, 2020.
It will be the largest Legoland theme park Merlin Entertainments has ever built, with more than 50 rides, shows and attractions across seven themed “lands” on 150 acres of the total 500 acres it owns.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. diplomats encouraged Ukraine’s newly elected president to conduct an investigation linked to Joe Biden’s family in return for a high-profile visit to Washington with President Donald Trump. It soon escalated into what one feared was a “crazy” swap that risked vital U.S. military aid. That’s according to a cache of […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to announce his resignation next month, Politico reported Thursday night.
The report of Perry’s expected resignation comes days after the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent questions to Perry related to his travel to Ukraine amid scrutiny of the Trump administration’s dealings with the country.
The Energy secretary traveled to Ukraine in May for the inauguration of the country’s new president, Volodymyr Zelesnky, whose contacts with President Trump are now at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
Sources close to Perry claimed to Politico that his resignation would be unrelated to scrutiny over Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders came to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s defense on Thursday night after President Trump called the New York Democrat a “wack job” on Twitter.
“It’s going to be a real pleasure defeating you,” Sanders tweeted in response to Trump’s post.
Trump made his comment after a woman attending an Ocasio-Cortez town hall said that the lawmaker’s support of the Green New Deal was not enough and that she should campaign on “eating babies.”
Read more at The Hill.
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The White House reportedly plans to send Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter as early as Friday saying President Trump doesn’t need to comply with Democratic lawmakers until the full House chamber formally approves an impeachment inquiry against him, Axios reported.
By sending Pelosi the letter, Trump and the White House are aiming to force House Democrats in toss-up districts to take a formal stance on impeachment, Axios noted, adding that Republican sources say that even as the chamber’s minority party, GOP lawmakers can have a greater say in impeachment hearings and other parts of an inquiry once the full chamber formally approves it.

President Trump on Thursday night defended his push for foreign governments to investigate allegations of corruption, asserting he has an “absolute right” to call for such help from a foreign power amid blowback over his push for probes into former Vice President Joe Biden.
“As the President of the United States, I have an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate, or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other Countries to help us out!” Trump tweeted.
Trump maintained in a subsequent tweet that his push “isn’t about a Campaign,” despite political backlash for seeking probes related to Biden, a top political rival who is leading polls for his party’s nomination to take on Trump in 2020.

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It looks as though the ill-named Forever 21 will be shuttering some stores, as it charts its way through murky financial waters.
The Los Angeles-based retailer announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a letter to customers Sunday. The letter made it clear that the clothier was not going out of business, but filed for bankruptcy protection as a “deliberate and decisive step to put us on a successful track for the future.”
“We are confident this is the right path for the long-term health of our business,” Forever 21 said in the letter to customers. “Once we complete a reorganization, Forever 21 will be a stronger, more viable company that is better positioned to prosper for years to come.”