Mordechai Ben David sings a stirring and moving version of Kol Nidre on the 1992 Chabad “To Life” Telethon. He is accompanied by pianist Yaron Gershovsky. Kol Nidre is the traditional prayer recited on the eve of Yom Kippur.
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley feared that former Pres. Trump could create a crisis or start a war during his final days in office and even took preventative measures, according to a new book by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee began Tuesday proceedings for a hearing on Afghanistan by fervently asking who has the power to cut off President Biden’s microphone and therefore censor him while he’s speaking. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was fielding Risch’s questions, denied the accusation multiple times. “We’ve all seen this,” Risch said. “We saw it as recently as yesterday. Somebody in the White House has the authority to press the button and … cut off the president’s speaking ability and sound.

The leaders of Egypt and Israel met Monday as part of the first official trip to Egypt by an Israeli prime minister in over a decade, and rising tensions in the Gaza Strip were at the top of their agenda. Gaza is sandwiched between Israel and Egypt, and both countries have enforced a border blockade of the territory to varying degrees since 2007, when the Islamic militant group Hamas took control there. The meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled a warming in a relationship that had been security-focused but somewhat cool under Bennett’s predecessor, Israeli hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu.

Dozens of extremists protested against Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion as he visited a Talmud Torah in the Bar Ilan neighborhood on Monday morning. The extremists protested against the mayor due to their opposition to the ongoing construction of infrastructure for the light rail train that will pass through the neighborhood. Police forces arrived at the scene and protected the mayor as he quickly left the scene. One protestor who clashed with the police was arrested. VIDEO & PHOTO CREDITS: ישי ירושלמי בחדרי חרדים On Sunday, Lion traveled to the home of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanivesky to receive a bracha before Yom Kippur, like he does every year. כמדי ערב יום כיפור עלה ראש העיר ירושלים משה ליאון להתברך במעונו של שר התורה הגר"ח קנייבסקי.

During the one year anniversary commemorative event for the Abraham Accords, the Biden administration representative refused to call the agreement by it’s name. At the event held at the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York City, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield was representing the Biden administration. She was joined by the UN Ambassadors of Israel, Bahrain, UAE, and Morocco. During her speech at the event, the US Ambassador referred to Accords as the “normalization agreements” and simply the “accords,” leaving out any mention of the name given to it at it’s time of signing by former President Donald Trump. Following the event, veteran Hamodia reporter Reuvain Borchardt asked the ambassador did not use the words “Abraham Accords” when she gave her speech.

Tens of thousands of children from all across the globe will storm shaarei shomayim on behalf of Klal Yisroel during Misaskim’s annual Aseres Yemei Teshuva asifa on Monday, September 13th. As in recent years, the main assembly will be held at 1 PM in the Bobover beis medrash on 15th Avenue and 47th Street, where thousands of boys will be davening together and will be joined by gedolim, roshei yeshiva and rabbonim. Hundreds of boys’ and girls’ schools worldwide will be taking part in the asifa via satellite hookup, with more than 12,000 children participating in Boro Park alone. The children will be reciting kapitelach 13, 20, 79, 121, 130 and 142 of Tehillim before they daven Mincha and say Avinu Malkeinu, Selichos of Shlosh Esrei Midos and Kabalas Ol Malchus Shomayim.

A Georgia man who was shot and killed outside a Comfort Inn in Queens by a suspected hitman dressed as a Hasidic Jew had $10,000 in his pocket at the time, police said. Jermaine Dixon, 46, of St. Albans, was getting into his car in South Ozone Park on Monday morning when the disguised hitman ran up to him and shot him at point-blank range in the back of the head. Police officials told the New York Post that the gunman had targeted Dixon because he believed the ex-convict, who spent 19 years in jail for murder and drugs charges, was cooperating with law enforcement as an informant and tried to steal the wad of cash without success.

Israeli bus drivers from across the country gathered at the Azrieli intersection of Menachem Begin Street and Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv, in order to protest how they have been treated by the Transportation Ministry. Among the reasons given for the strike, which was organized by the National Labor Federation (Histadrut) and the Union of Bus Drivers were: the loss of benefits incurred by a driver who switches from one company to another, the low pay, the recent wave of violence against bus drivers that has gone unchecked, and the difficult work environment that they are forced to endure. The drivers blocked the major thoroughfare, which leads to the large government complex in Tel Aviv, for most of the morning in protest.

A residential apartment building in Holon collapsed on Sunday afternoon, a day after 36 families were evacuated from the building. Israel Fire and Rescue Services evacuated the residents of the building on Shabbos morning after they were called to the site due to the sound of a blast in the building. The rescue crew discovered that significant cracks had formed in the building and some residents were trapped in their apartments as they couldn’t open their front doors due to a shift in the building’s shape. Rescue workers evacuated the residents and the police closed off the street next to the building. Residents were told they could not return to the building as it was at risk of collapse, a decision supported by municipality engineers who carried out an inspection of the building.