A Jewish man davening At Rebbe Nachman’s Tziyon In Uman was stabbed over Shabbos.
Emergency first responders from United Hatzalah were quickly called to the scene, and treated the victim, who was on the verge of losing consciousness. The victim was then evacuated to a local hospital.
Local Jewish officials say this is not the first time the assailant has attacked visitors in Uman. After this weekend’s attack, however, local Jewish officials “have lost their patience, and this time they will put an end to this.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Agudah’s annual convention has long been the key venue for members of the Jewish community to convene together with Torah leaders and community askanim to discuss and address the critical issues facing the klal today. A direct descendent of the First Knessia Gedolah in 1923, 95 years later the Agudah Convention’s content may have changed, but its mission has remained the same: To gather under the banner of our Gedolei Yisroel to advance the interests of the Jewish community.
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Rav Eliyahu Kubo, av beis din of Saloniki, author of Aderes Eliyahu and Sheni Hame’oros Hagedolim (~1628-1688). The Kubo family had immigrated to Greece from Spain during the Spanish expulsion. Rav Eliyahu became Chief Rabbi in Salonika.
Rav Tzvi Hersh Margulies of Lublin (1805)

Dozens of cartel gunmen attacked a town hall in northern Mexico, triggering a running battle with security forces that left 19 dead by Sunday in a fresh sign of the deteriorating security around the country.
The assault started about noon on Saturday, the eve of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first anniversary in office. Polls show that Mexicans regard the failure to curb violence as the greatest weakness of the generally popular leftist leader.
López Obrador is also under pressure from President Donald Trump, who revealed last week that he wants to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The Mexican leader told a rally on Sunday that he had no intention of returning to the kind of “war on drugs” led by the army in past years.

Former congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa., ended his presidential campaign on Sunday, a little over five months after he launched his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.
The move brings the number of Democratic contenders to 17, with the Iowa caucuses roughly two months away.
On Twitter and in an email to supporters, Sestak voiced his gratitude for “this priceless opportunity as I end our campaign together.”

American retailer Walmart Inc. is recruiting cashiers, food handlers, pharmacists, and merchandise stockers in Yerushalayim, according to various job listings posted by Walmart on LinkedIn over the past few weeks. The listings suggest that Walmart intends to open its first location in Israel in the very near future. Walmart could be the first American mega-retailer to set up shop in Israel.
Walmart has yet to respond to Calcalist’s request for comment.
In early 2018, Calcalist reported that representatives of Walmart had visited Israel to look into the possibility of opening a branch in the country.

Millions of Americans who had to navigate a bomb cyclone and a Midwest windstorm on the way to Thanksgiving celebrations will encounter more inclement weather when returning home Sunday and Monday as a major winter storm takes shape in the Northeast and a new storm hits the San Francisco Bay area.
In the Northeast, heavy snow, mixed precipitation and strong winds are expected to develop in many areas beginning as early as Sunday. Freezing rain was already falling in parts of Pennsylvania on Sunday, making roads hazardous, and the stage is set for a burdensome Monday morning commute for many from New York to Portland, Maine.

A reduction in the garbage pickup schedule for Borough Park schools has left mountains of trash bags piled on the sidewalk, big enough to dwarf students passing by.
“It is a disgrace what has become of our district. @NYCSanitation refuses to service yeshivas in our community. Every community deserves to be clean and get basic service from the city. This cannot be allowed to continue,” Community Board 12, which includes Borough Park, tweeted in September, along with photos showing massive mounds of black garbage bags.
City Councilman Kalman Yeger, who represents the neighborhood, claimed that scaling back on the pickups was “a deliberate decision” by Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia “to harm our community. I know because she told me,” Yeger tweeted.