The first debate of the 2020 election season takes place over two nights on Wednesday and Thursday. Twenty Democratic candidates will take questions in downtown Miami.
Sixty seconds for answers, a television audience of millions and, for some candidates, a first chance to introduce themselves to voters.

(by Chaskel Bennett)
Imagine if an Orthodox Jew would be denied entry to the polls on election ‎day? The outcry would be swift and overwhelming. Charges of antisemitism and bigotry would ring across social media and would be rightfully condemned by everyone.
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Rabbi Avraham Salim, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Meor Torah, was injured in a car accident on Wednesday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while he was on a fundraising trip for his yeshiva.
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A rare Minyan was held this morning in the only Shul in Bahrain. The reason: A group of Jews who were in Bahrain for the Peace conference, including Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special adviser for Middle East peace.

Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced Wednesday that he is returning to politics and forming a new party that will aim to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections.
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Two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency’s response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people, the Broward County sheriff said Wednesday.
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Dear Rabbi Frankfurter (Editor of Ami Magazine),
I am reaching out to you as an avid Ami fan and subscriber. But I am also reaching out to you as a real estate owner in NYC.
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The hafganos in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh continued on Tuesday, the result of two chareidi sisters being arrested by military police. The protesters lit garbage bins on fire and when the fire department arrived, they blocked fire trucks and then stole equipment from the truck.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed Tuesday for the Palestinians to consider a $50 billion economic support plan they have already rejected because it does not include a political resolution to the long-running conflict with the Israelis.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Wednesday just under two months after the deadly shooting at his Chabad of Poway.
The rabbi’s remarks were part of a larger address calling on countries around the world to collaborate to fight anti-Semitism and hate speech in general.