Yahrtzeits – 29 Elul
Rav Yaakov Halevi Lipschitz, author of Zichron Yaakov and secretary of Rav Yitzchak Elchonon Spector (1922).
Rav Naftali Hertz, Rav of Pintchov (1733)
Rav Raphael Landau, son of Rav Avraham of Tchechenov (1894)
Rav Yerachmiel Yeshaya Minzberg, Rav of Likova (1905)

President Donald Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the U.S. election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter.

State health officials said Friday that many patients sickened with mysterious lung injuries used black market marijuana vaping devices, offering the strongest clues so far into what might be making people sick.
Officials in Wisconsin and Illinois, the states that were the first to report cases, conducted in-depth interviews with 86 patients who said they used a wide range of e-cigarette products. The vast majority reported using illicit products containing THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana. The products were sold as prefilled vape cartridges – tiny disposable containers – and obtained from informal sources, officials said.

In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May 2018 nor recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights last March was his greatest accomplishment to benefit the Jewish people, two participants on the call told JNS.
The greatest accomplishment, this friend told Trump, was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, according to the participants.

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Reb Mayer Dovid Apfelbaum z”l.
Reb Mayer Dovid was the founder of the legendary Torah Tapes Library in Boro Park Library. Tens of thousands of hours of limud haTorah are to his credit, as thousands benefitted from his tape library, especially before the advent of the internet and other technological mediums.
A Holocaust survivor, Reb Mayer Dovid spent his decades after the war rebuilding what was lost, using his time and abilities to spread the devar Hashem, increase limud haTorah, and engage in numerous chassodim. One area in which he was supremely involved was shidduchim, devoting ceaseless efforts to this, especially for older singles. He was zoche to make over 120 shidduchim.

CBS NY reports: A community gathered Thursday in Rockland County to fulfill the promise to never forget.
They laid to rest some unknown victims of the Holocaust, murdered more than 70 years ago, more than 4,000 miles away.
They grieved for the dead without knowing their names. Bound by faith and history, a community indelibly marked by the Holocaust buried ashes of unknown victims from a death camp in Poland.
“I feel that we are really honored, blessed, having these remains left in our hands,” said Paul Galan, the president of the Rockland Holocaust Museum.
The discovery was made earlier this year as the Rockland Holocaust Museum moved to a new home, and a collection of items from Auschwitz was taken out of storage.
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