By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Pikuach Nefesh,
It is one of those things that no one really learns, almost like that invisible elephant in the room that we don’t want to talk about.
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The following is an open letter from Councilman Deutsch sent to the community on Erev Yom Kippur:
Dear neighbors,
The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins tonight at sunset, and I am writing to wish all those who observe an uplifting and meaningful holiday and an easy fast.

A female animal rights activist was captured on video weeping and crying as she held a chicken by a Kaparos Center in Brooklyn.
In the video below, watch the unnamed woman as she holds the chicken as if she is holding an infant.

E-cigarette vapor causes lung cancer and potentially bladder cancer in mice, damaging their DNA and leading researchers at New York University to conclude that vaping is likely “very harmful” to humans as well.
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To our loyal readers, supporters, and dear friends around the world: With the world in its most uncertain and unstable times, we would like to wish all of you a Gmar Chasima Tova, and may we all be inscribed & sealed in the books of life, peace, health, and prosperity.
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
THE MITZVAH
The Shulchan Aruch (OC 604:1) rules that there is a Torah Mitzvah on Erev Yom Kippur to do the following three things: eat, drink, and have a festive food-filled meal.
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As House Democrats fire off more subpoenas, the White House is finalizing a high-stakes strategy to counter the impeachment threat to President Donald Trump: Stall. Obfuscate. Attack. Repeat.
Trump aides are honing their approach after two weeks of what allies have described as a listless and unfocused response to the impeachment probe.

A pair of tefilin stolen from Uman were found to be on sale on the popular Israeli ‘Yad2’ second-hand website, with the seller asking 8000 Ukrainian hryvnia. The photo shows the tefilin of Yaakov Yisrael Yanai, who reported they were apparently stolen from him during his stay at the tziyun of Rav Nachman ZT”L over Rosh Hashanah.

A foreign alien suspected of attacking a four-year-old chareidi girl has been released from detention. Police did not even both to question the child, the victim, as required. The parents, who live in a chareidi community in the Binyamin Regional Council complained to police that the girl was attacked by a foreigner.

Another swastika was found in Brooklyn, this one on 14th Avenue and 39th Street, on a very busy Boro Park Street.
The red Nazi symbol was found on a wooden board, and the NYPD and Boro Park Shomrim were called.