President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from the United Nations on Wednesday that the 74-year-old organization risks being unable to pay its staff and bills if member nations don’t cough up their annual dues soon, USA Today reports.
Washington owes the U.N. $381 million in back payments and $674 million this year, according to the U.S. mission to the U.N. As the largst contributor to the 193-member organization, the U.S. has long sought to pressure the U.N. to rein in spending.

A new poll released Wednesday by Fox News shows that just more than half of all registered voters support President Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.
Those surveyed said 51% to 43% that Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Four percent said he should be impeached but not removed from office, and 40% said he should not be impeached at all.
The poll also showed a clear partisan divide. Of Democrats surveyed, 85% said Trump should be impeached and removed, as did 13% of Republicans. Those opposed to impeachment and removal included 9% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans.

The Orthodox Union on Wednesday night expressed its deepest sympathies to the Jewish community of Halle, Germany, where an attack left at least two people dead and others injured after a gunman targeted a shul.
“This senseless act of anti-Semitic violence was not only a heinous attack on the Jewish community of Halle, but it’s yet another example of anti-Semitism in Germany which continues to proliferate. Every Jew has the right to practice their religion without fear of being a victim of terror,” said Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Allen Fagin.
“An attack on a Jew anywhere is an attack on every Jew, and our prayers and thoughts are with our brethren in Halle,” added Fagin.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs responded to a medical emergency in Elad which saw a 9-year-old boy sustain a serious injury while building a sukkah on Erev Yom Kippur in Elad.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Dovid Entebbe who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “We responded to an emergency where a nine-year-old boy was using an electric circular saw to cut wood while helping to build his family’s sukkah. Two of his finger were severed completely. Together with other EMS personnel I treated the boy forbhis injuries at the scene, after which he was transported to the hospital for further care.”
{Matzav.com}

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
There is a special mitzvah of simcha on Sukkos. Chazal teach us in Sukka (51a) that a person who never witnessed the Simchas Bais Hasho’eiva never witnessed true simcha in his life. The gemara describes in great detail the view that was seen in Yerushalayim and the great juggling acts that took place at the Simchas Bais Hasho’eiva. The Yerushalmi in Sukka (5:a) says that the reason why it is called Simchas Bais Hasho’eiva is because people would draw Ruach HaKodesh from the simcha at the Simchas Bais Hasho’eiva. Yona became a Navi because he was oleh regel and therefore was zocheh to Ruach HaKodesh due to the simcha he experienced.

Hundreds of esrogim were seized at an airport in England.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency held up the shipment at the Manchester Airport under new and stricter regulations on the import of citrus fruit. Esrog importers were unaware of the new rules, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews worked with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to have the 600 esrogs taken to a Manchester shul, where the stalks could be trimmed to meet the stricter rules, the Board of Deputies reported. The fruits also must be destroyed immediately after the holiday.
Some 10,000 etrogs were due to be imported to Britain for Sukkot this year.

Yair Lapid — co-chairman of Israel’s centrist Blue and White party — issued a rare, if indirect, criticism of the Trump administration on Monday, expressing support for two US senators opposed to the president’s just-announced plan to pull American troops out of northern Syria to clear the way for a Turkish invasion.
The critique of Trump’s move has centered on the likely consequences for the region’s Kurdish population, whose US-allied militias played a decisive role in the defeat of the Islamic State.
“I join my friends @LindseyGrahamSC and @ChrisVanHollen in their call to impose sanctions on Turkey and suspend it from NATO in response to any attack on the Kurds in northern Syria,” Lapid tweeted.

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Mar bar Rav Ashi (466 CE)
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Today in History – 11 Tishrei
· Censorship of Jewish books in Russia, 1796.