In news that is sure to excite the community, editors have announced the launch of a new Yiddish periodical titled Boro Park B’vinyana, a magazine which will offer in-depth insight and information behind the latest building projects undertaken by Mosdos and Shuls in the neighborhood.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times)
INTRODUCTION
Urgent reminder:  Do an Eruv Tavshilin today.
Whenever any day of Yom Tov comes out on a Friday – an Eruv Tavshilin must be made before the Yom Tov begins.

Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, declaring the “soul of this nation” at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election.
In a video posted on Twitter , Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A California motorist told investigators Wednesday that he deliberately drove into a crosswalk in a quiet Silicon Valley suburb, hitting seven people and injuring eight, but did not say why.
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IDF forces working with border police and the Civil Administration destroyed the apartment of 19-year-old terrorist Omar Abu Layla of Kfar a-Zivya in the Ephraim District. The heinous terrorist was responsible for the Ariel Junction/Gitai Avissar Junction attack that claimed the lives of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger HY”D of Yishuv Eli and IDF soldier First-Sgt.

President Donald Trump renewed his threat Wednesday to send more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border following an incident in which Mexican soldiers confronted U.S. personnel. Mexico blamed the incident on confusion, and said it was not looking for confrontation with the U.S.

A police dog that stumbled on a porcupine and got more than 200 quills stuck on his face while pursuing a suspect is resting comfortably Tuesday and will not lose his eyesight, authorities in Oregon said.
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Chairman of the Yachad party, Eli Yishai, claims that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised him a ministerial post in the new government if he backed Yahadut Hatorah, which he did.
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Mashgichei Kashrus employed by Rav Landau Shlita were attacked on Monday morning as they exited the Coca Cola plant on Kahaneman Street in Bnei Brak.
The Hamodia report cites that mashgichim were “attacked in an anti-Semitic incident” at 2:30AM as they left the plant upon completion of their shift.

After touring the National Lynching Memorial recently, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke of the “shame” he felt that some white people “kind of looked the other way during these lynching incidents.”
Former U.S.
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