Days after a blunder involving a recently deceased congresswoman, President Joe Biden privately apologized to her family.
In a speech at a White House conference on hunger last Wednesday, the president cast about for the lawmakers who helped organize the event, asking, “Where’s Jackie?” in seeming reference to Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN). Walorski died in an August car crash. Keith Walorski, the congresswoman’s brother, told the NY Post that the family had met the president for a half-hour conversation in the Oval Office. According to Keith, the Walorski matriarch, 83-year-old Martha, told Biden, “Well, Mr. President, we can tell you where Jackie is. She’s in heaven….”

After generating a disastrous ocean surge, destructive winds and devastating flooding in Florida, Ian still has one more act. The National Hurricane Center’s latest forecast calls for Ian, again a hurricane, to make a second U.S. landfall near Charleston, S.C., on Friday.
Hurricane warnings have been posted for the entire South Carolina coast, while tropical storm warnings are in effect from just north of West Palm Beach, Fla., all the way to Duck, N.C.

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Yerachmiel Begun’s Miami Boys Choir – favorites of many Matzav.com readers – has transformed over the last two weeks from a singing group popular among Jewish insiders to a viral sensation. On TikTok and Twitter, users have shared clips of the group’s concerts, overlaid its music with other scenes and inserted themselves into split-screen duets. New fans of the Miami Boys Choir, have chosen their favorite singers through their stage presence or their vocals.
JTA reports on the now-viral video of a 2008 performance of “Yerushalayim.” Some of the TikTokers have released lip sync videos of “Yerushalayim.”

Agudath Israel Reissues Kaporos Kol Korei

Reissuing a Rabbinic statement (Kol Korei) that was first published 15 years ago and that remains relevant today, Agudath Israel of America is calling upon the community to exercise care regarding the custom of kapporos before Yom Kippur. Given the size of the community, and the large volume of chickens that will be handled in the upcoming days, the practice of kapporos needs to be conducted in a manner that ensures that proper standards of kashrus, cleanliness, and humane treatment of animals, as defined by halacha, are met. This can be achieved by patronizing only those establishments that are under appropriate rabbinic supervision.

i24 News – Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid told the United Nations General Assembly today that the creation of a Palestinian state will be the “right thing for Israel” on condition that it will be a “peaceful one.”
Lapid said that a large majority of Israelis support the two-state solution, himself included.
“An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel’s security, for Israel’s economy and for the future of our children,” the prime minister stated.

New York City officials claim that many of the migrants who are being bused from Texas did not want to go to New York so they are helping them get to other states, Fox 5 NY reports. The New York City Commissioner of Immigration Affairs appeared on the FOX 5 NY morning show “Good Day New York” on Wednesday.
Commissioner Manuel Castro says that a lot of the migrants are fleeing Venezuela. Castro says, “Many want to go to places like Florida where the largest community of Venezuelans live.” He says they have family and community ties in Florida. “We’re helping them get to their actual final destination,” Castro says. “We’re doing our best.”

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Didn’t Kamala say the border was secure? She wouldn’t lie to Chuck Todd, right?

According to a Fox News report, illegal migrants decked out in full camouflage were spotted by Fox News cameras being lowered over an Arizona border wall Tuesday by human smugglers, Hannity reports.

King Charles III appeared to lose his temper at a leaky pen as he continues his nationwide tour following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Express reports that while visiting Northern Ireland, the new monarch accidentally signed the wrong date in the ceremonial booklet, writing September 12th instead of September 13th, before Camilla then points out that he had signed an earlier book with the same, incorrect date. The pen then appears to leak on the King, before he bursts out: “I cannot bear this bloody thing!”