London- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a backlash from furious lawmakers on Thursday over his use of charged and confrontational language in Parliament about opponents of his Brexit plan, as the Speaker of the House of Commons warned that the country’s political culture had turned “toxic.” In a raucous and bad-tempered debate on Wednesday, […]

 
Though its been many years since prolific composer Rav Shmuel Brazil has released any original music to the public, music is always a part of his life. For the first time in over a decade Rav Brazil is ready to release some original niggunim under a new brand, “Hakshivah.” I am proud to present the first single from the project titled “Shofar Gadol.”

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It became a joke, but many years ago, when Hillary Clinton was still thought to be a somebody, she met Russian President Vladimir Putin and gave him a present. It was a cheap plastic reset button, meant to symbolize that she and her then boss Barack Obama were going to reset America’s relationship with its old nemesis. Of course, as with much else that she and Obama attempted, nothing happened.
Rosh Hashanah is our reset button, and a whole lot more. On this day, Hakadosh Boruch Hu examines everyone and every creature and decides what type of year they will have. We have the ability to do teshuvah and reset ourselves and our actions and the way we have conducted ourselves throughout the year.

The dwellings of two Palestinians accused of murdering yeshiva bochur and Israeli army recruit Dvir Sorek will be destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces, after an appeal by the suspects’ families was denied on Tuesday.
Nasir and Qassem Asafra are accused of ambushing and stabbing to death the nearly 19-year-old Sorek, who disembarked a bus outside Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Judea and Samaria to return to his religious seminary and whose body was found in the early hours of Aug. 8.
The accused terrorists’ families were notified of demolition plans by the IDF earlier this month and given the chance to appeal the decision. On Tuesday, their appeals were rejected and the demolition orders signed.

Blue and White Party No. 2 Yair Lapid will not join a government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Blue and White form a unity government, party sources said Tuesday.
“Lapid is for unity, but will not sit in Netanyahu’s government,” said the sources according to Ynet.
Senior officials involved in the negotiations between the two parties also said that during Tuesday’s talks representatives of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz insisted that Gantz would not serve under an indicted prime minister, according to the report.

Portland,Ore.- Vaping products, one of the fastest-growing segments of the legal marijuana industry, have taken a hit from consumers as public health experts scramble to determine what’s causing a mysterious and sometimes fatal lung disease among people who use e-cigarettes. The ailment has sickened at least 530 people and killed nine. Some vaped nicotine, but […]

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Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that President Trump has been “completely vindicated” by the released transcript of his call with Ukraine’s president.
“The president did nothing wrong,” Pence told Fox News’ Lou Dobbs in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday night. “He had a conversation with a world leader [and] spoke about issues that were appropriate issues related to our strong relationship with Ukraine, and it was nothing more than that.”
“From the day after the election, Democrats have been trying to overturn the results” of the 2016 election, Pence said, and “it’s just not going to work.”

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President Donald Trump alleged Wednesday that Hunter Biden got China to put $1.5 billion in a fund, an assertion flatly denied by Biden’s lawyer, who said earlier this year his client had not received anything from the investment.
Trump, who has made a similar allegation for months, is referencing information from a book by Peter Schweizer, “Secret Empires,” that first detailed how Hunter Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with his father in 2013.