While delivering remarks on the economy after touring the Volvo Group Powertrain Facility in Hagerstown, Maryland, President Joe Biden delivered a gaffe that would give a kindergartner pause.

Joe was fired up —maybe he just temporarily forgot how to count when he kicked off the remarks with this gem:

 
“Let me start off with two words: made in America.”
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Goronson Farm said it will take four years before the trees are ready to produce esrogim for Sukkos, but is offering a limited number of seedlings on Friday.
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The mother of a 19-year-old girl who was brutally assaulted on the New York City subway by a gang of neon green bodysuit-clad women, says she is furious over the incident. Speaking to the New York Daily News, the mother, who requested anonymity, said her 19-year-old daughter was out with a friend celebrating her birthday when they were beaten and robbed on the train by the gang in green. Both victims, 19, were waiting for an N train in Times Square around 2 a.m. Sunday when the “loud and obnoxious” attackers appeared, the mother said.

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.