Q. I have heard people say they “don’t sell chometz gomur.” Why not?
A. A common method for relinquishing ownership of chometz before Pesach is to sell it, typically through an agent, to a gentile. The chometz remains in the house, in a closed-off area that has been rented to its new owner. After Pesach the agent repurchases the chometz on your behalf (and the rental period ends).

הגרמ”צ ברגמן בבדיקת חמץצילום: שוקי לרר
 
הגרמ”צ ברגמן בבדיקת חמץצילום: שוקי לרר
 

As is well known, Rav Chaim Kanievsky makes a siyum on kol haTorah kulah every year, completing Talmud Bavli,Talmud Yerushalmi, Tosefta, Sifri, Mishnayos, Shulchan Aruch, Rambam, and other segments of Torah.
The most recent siyum made by the venerable gaon took place this morning, Erev Pesach, following the vasikin minyan at the Lederman Shul on Rechov Rashbam in Bnei Brak, where Rav Chaim regularly davens.
In addition to a large number of bechorim who joined so that they would not have to fast the customary taanis bechorim on Erev Pesach, a large crowd gathered to watch as the hadol hador made a siyum on all of Shas.

Lakewood, NJ – Lakewood, an area of 26 square miles, has 217 miles of Township streets. It also has thousands upon thousands of garbage receptacles – bins that, while serving town residents, belong to the Lakewood Public Works Department, which is responsible for the maintenance and repair of Township roads and sewers, Township parks and open space, snowplowing of Township streets, leaf and brush collection, and, of course, garbage and recycling collection.

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Uber on Thursday night confirmed that it has raised $1 billion for its autonomous driving unit at a post-money valuation of $7.25 billion.
Existing Uber shareholders SoftBank Vision Fund and Toyota were joined by Japanese auto parts maker DENSO. Toyota and DENSO will invest a combined $667 million, with SoftBank’s Vision Fund putting in the rest. Toyota is also committing up to an additional $300 million over the next three years to deploy autonomous vehicles into the Uber’s network by 2021.
Uber is preparing to go public next month, and this deal could soothe some investor concerns about the cash-burn on self-driving R&D.
Read more at AXIOS.

Poland should follow Greece in stepping up pressure on Germany to pay billions of euros in damages for Nazi occupation during World War Two, a lawmaker in charge of Warsaw’s reparations campaign said on Thursday.
Greece’s parliament voted a day earlier to launch a diplomatic push to press its case — and Berlin responded by reiterating its position that all such claims by invaded countries had long been settled.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who heads the Polish parliamentary committee on reparations, said in a tweet that the Greek vote showed WW2 compensation had become an international issue.
“It’s time for a decision from the Polish Sejm (lower house of Parliament),” added the lawmaker from the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party.

Hezbollah has not abandoned its plans to invade parts of northern Israel during a future conflict, a top IDF office said in interview excerpts published on Thursday.
“We, of course, will not let that happen,” outgoing GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick told the Hebrew news site Ynet.
Strick — who is finishing up a two-year stint as the head of the Northern Command — said he had “no doubt” the IDF would win any potential war in the north.
According to Strick, the IDF has been “most effective” in pushing the Iranians back from the border with Israel in southern Syria in recent years.

Pesach is one of the most wasteful times of the year in Israel, JPOST reports.
According to data published by food rescue organization Leket Israel and accounting firm BDO, 106,000 tons of food, worth approximately NIS 1.126 billion ($313 million), goes to waste during the month of Pesachl – about 14% higher than regular monthly waste.

A 92-year old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been charged with being an accessory to thousands of murders by German prosecutors on Thursday.
The former guard, named only as Bruno D., was charged by Hamburg prosecutors with aiding in the “malicious and cruel” killing of prisoners at the Stutthof concentration camp. D. served as a concentration camp guard there for nine months, from August 1944 until April 1945. Stutthof was located in what is presently Poland.