In our ever-changing and ever-challenging society, a Rav needs to be proactive to confront the issues of the times and to inspire and lead his Kehilla. This is the goal of the annual conference of the Midwest Agudas Yisroel Council of Synagogue Rabbonim.

The 18-year-old driver that blew through a red light and caused the death of a bicyclist in Flatbush, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide.
The NYPD says that Mizra Baig, 18, of Rego Park, Queens was charged in the crash that took the life of 52-year-old bicyclist Jose Alzorriz.

A book truck delivering equipment to a construction site in Flatbush overturned on Wednesday morning.
It happened on Avenue U near Ocean Parkway.
The FDNY is operating on scene and reports that thankfully there are no reported injuries or evacuations at this time.

There are rumors viral on social media that have emanated from a camp called, “Camp Machne Yehuda” in Lakewood, which stated the following (unedited) Psak in the name of Rav Elya Brudny:
“Camp Machnane Yehuda just got a Psak from Reb Elya Brudny that there’s a big Midas Hadin on mi bamayim and therefore should not go on any water trips.

A two-year-old child was pulled out of a pool in Jackson, NJ, on Wednesday morning.
Lakewood Hatzolah was on the scene at the incident at around 9:30AM, and found the child in cardiac arrest.
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Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet — or at least on Facebook.
Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you limit what the social network can gather about you on outside websites and apps.
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Airlines expect record crowds over the week-long Labor Day period, continuing a rise in travel that has boosted the airlines’ profits all year.
The trade group Airlines for America forecast Tuesday that 17.5 million passengers will fly on U.S.
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Officials in a New Hampshire town are trying to figure out how a recently opened time capsule from 50 years ago has nothing in it.
Library director Cara Potter in Derry tells WMUR-TV that since she started there five years ago, the safe has been sitting on a shelf.
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A young girl discovered something slithery at a New Jersey airport security checkpoint: a 15-inch-long snake.
Transportation Security Administration officials at Newark Liberty International Airport said in a release that it appears the thin, black snake with a yellow ring around its neck was forgotten by a traveler Monday night.

Walmart sued Tesla for “gross negligence” on Tuesday, saying that the electric car company’s energy division installed solar panels that went up in flames on its store rooftops.
The retailer said fires broke out at seven store rooftops between 2012 and 2018, causing millions of dollars in damage.