An attorney for Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was charged last month with campaign finance violations, said Monday that his client is willing to comply with the House impeachment inquiry – and challenged the notion that President Donald Trump does not know Parnas.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Joseph Bondy noted that Parnas had a number of interactions with the president and his personal attorney, Giuliani, despite Trump’s claim that he was not familiar with his client.

The commissioner of the New York Police Department announced his retirement Monday after leading the department for slightly more than three years.
Commissioner James O’Neill said he plans to leave for a job in the private sector in December, describing the scheduling of his departure as “the right time for me.” Mayor Bill de Blasio named Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea as O’Neill’s replacement at a press conference.
“This job comes with a lot. It comes with a lot of pressure,” O’Neill said during the conference. “This is all I have thought about for the last 38 months — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s all you think about, is keeping the people of this city safe, and it was an honor to serve.”

On the Internet, using uppercase letters is shorthand for shouting. And Facebook has something to say with its redesign.
The company’s new corporate logo is its name in all uppercase letters. The redesign is Facebook’s most visible attempt to distinguish the social media app and website from its eponymous corporation, which also owns Instagram, WhatsApp and other entities.
The new logo is meant to convey “optimism” while the re-branding effort is focused on “clarity,” “empathy” and “creating space,” according to a company Web page. The Facebook app will keep its current logo.

The leader of Gaza’s ruling terrorist group Hamas on Monday threatened the head of Israel’s Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, who is currently trying to set up a government.
“Gantz has joined the bragging club today and is issuing threats and attempts at intimidation,” said Yahya Sinwar, according to Israeli news site Mako.
“We reply, we are waiting for you to form a government to see what you know how to do, and with the help of God, make you curse the day you were born,” Sinwar pledged.
“We are ready to attack Tel Aviv for six months, morning and evening,” the terrorist chief proclaimed.
Gantz is a particular object of hatred among Palestinians in Gaza because he was chief of staff of the IDF during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.

Self-described senior administration official pens soon-to-be-published book about President Trump; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports from the North Lawn.
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“There is no way to describe the acts of heroism and the danger they took upon themselves and all those around them to shelter an entire family,” said Sarah Yanai upon reuniting with the Greek woman who, along with her two sisters, hid her and five other members of her family during the Holocaust.
“The feeling is very emotional and very exciting. I cannot describe it,” said the 86-year-old. “What can I say? They saved our lives.”
At the Hall of Names at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem on Sunday, Greek rescuer Melpomeni Dina, 92, now living in Thessaloniki, Greece, was reunited with two survivors she saved during the Holocaust: Yanai, who now lives in Ramat Hasharon, and her brother Yossi Mor, 77, now living in Beersheva.

A Palestinian student at Benedictine University last week called on professor Harold Kasimow, a child survivor of the Holocaust, to condemn the establishment of Israel and the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Israel, walking out when he did not do so.
Kasimow is the George Drake Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa and a visiting scholar at Benedictine. He has been involved in Jewish-Buddhist dialogue since the 1960s.
Kasimow delivered two lectures at Benedictine University’s Lisle campus last week: “Advancing Abrahamic Friendship: Modern Popes in Dialogue with Jews and Muslims” on Oct. 23 and “Bearing Witness: Memories of a Child Holocaust Survivor” the following evening.

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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