Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro of Lublin (1887-1933). His father, Rav Yaakov Shimshon Katz of Shatz, Romania, was a descendent of Rav Pinchas Koretz, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. His mother, Margala, was the daughter of Rav Shmuel Yitzchak Schor, author of Minchas Shai, and a descendent of the author of Tevu’as Shor. He was also a descendent of Rav Bechor Shor of Orleans, one of the Baalie Tosefos. He was married in 1906 and took his first appointment, Rav of Galina, in 1911. In 1921, he became Rav of Sanok, then in 1924 Rav of Piotrkov. It was while there that he wrote his sefer Or HaMeir. Also in 1923, he began the first cycle of Daf Yomi, having shared this idea at the first Knessiah Gedolah of Agudath Yisrael the previous year.

Uber posted a $1.2 billion loss Monday on healthy revenue growth, a better-than-expected result nearly six months after its May initial public offering.
The loss was narrower than the company’s $5.2 billion second-quarter deficit, beating analysts’ expectations, though it comes ahead of a potential stock sell-off later this week when employees are able to start selling their stock options.

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President Donald Trump suffered another setback in his effort to guard his financial information as a federal appeals court refused to block the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena to his accountants for tax records.
The 3-0 ruling by the federal appeals court in Manhattan moves the case closer to a possible showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court. If Trump loses there, he may run out of legal ways to halt District Attorney Cyrus Vance from obtaining the records.

The Trump administration notified the international community Monday that it plans to officially withdraw from the Paris climate accord next fall, a move that will leave the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases as the only nation to abandon the global effort to combat climate change.
President Donald Trump has long criticized the 2015 accord and insisted that the United States would exit it as soon as possible. As recently as last month, Trump called the agreement “a total disaster” and argued that the Obama administration’s pledges to cut carbon emissions under the deal would have “hurt the competitiveness” of the United States.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has settled a lawsuit with former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind — sparing her from having to testify in federal court Tuesday over why she blocked him on Twitter, The Post has learned.
“I have reconsidered my decision to block Dov Hikind from my Twitter account,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement obtained by The Post on Monday. “Mr. Hikind has a First Amendment right to express his views and should not be blocked for them.”
As part of a settlement deal reached, Ocasio-Cortez issued an apology.

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For Rockland DA a Prosecutor or Persecutor?
Another election is coming this Tuesday November 5th and is shaping up to be the most consequential for the Orthodox community in Rockland County.  While there is occasionally a question as to which candidates to support, that is not the case this year. This year, the hostility to the Orthodox community is out in the open.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a self-proclaimed white supremacist for planning to blow up a historic Colorado synagogue and poison congregants, federal officials said Monday. The FBI called the alleged plot a hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
Richard Holzer, 27, was arrested Friday night after picking up what he thought was a bundle of pipe bombs and dynamite from undercover agents, according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Denver. He was wearing a Nazi armband when he was arrested and carrying a copy of “Mein Kampf,” FBI Special Agent John Smith wrote in the filing.

One is the rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in New York, a member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah in the United States; the other is an esteemed posek, the head of the Bais Horaah Haklali in Yerushalayim, and a member of the nesius of Shuvu.
When they first met last week at a Shuvu school in Bat Yam, Rav Brudny sighed and told Rav Kook, “I remember clearly when your parents were tragically niftar.”
Rav Kook was surprised. Indeed, it was a tragedy when his father, Rav Shlomo Kook, the late Chief Rabbi of Rechovot, and his mother, Rebbetzin Yehudis Kook, and their two young sons were killed in a car accident, but how did the rosh yeshiva remember the exact date almost 38 years later?