A landmark at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti on Wednesday night.
According to Knox News, the words, “Jews did 9-11,” and, “Google: Dancing Israelis,” were found scrawled on “The Rock” — a large stone on the university campus that has become an informal designated area for graffiti and often political messages.
The graffiti refers to the conspiracy theory that Jews and/or Israel were the real culprits behind the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda terrorist attacks. “Dancing Israelis” refers to a connected conspiracy theory that claims a group of Israelis were caught celebrating the attack.

Boeing Co.’s troubled 737 Max jets are unlikely to return to service until early 2020 as regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe remain divided and the planemaker has yet to submit its finalized software fix planned for this month, according to Barclays.
In a note lowering forecasts for the company, analyst David Strauss estimated the company’s free cash flow for 2021-2022 will be about 20% lower than what was expected before the aircraft was grounded, in the high $20s per share range.
The analyst said his updated view “reflects a substantial slowdown” given that large customers appeared to have significantly reduced payments based on their financial disclosures and that Boeing’s progress payment balance hadn’t increased in the second quarter.

President Donald Trump could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a U.N. General Assembly meeting, with “no preconditions,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
Pompeo’s remarks came during a news briefing to unveil new sanctions against Iran, including against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reported.
The briefing came just hours after Trump announced on Twitter the resignation of national security adviser John Bolton, who bolstered the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign against Iranian nuclear capability.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency, senior adviser to Rouhani Hesamuddin Ashena said that Bolton’s resignation was a “clear sign that the U.S. maximum pressure strategy has failed.”
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A tropical storm warning was issued Thursday for the Bahamas, less than two weeks after Hurricane Dorian devastated the commonwealth’s northwest region as a Category 5 hurricane.
The U.S. National Weather Service issued an advisory warning that tropical storm conditions are expected in the northwest Bahamas, including the Abaco Islands, by late Friday. No significant storm surge is anticipated as the storm is only predicted to give off two to four inches of rain.
The Abaco Islands were pummeled earlier this month by Hurricane Dorian, a storm that wrecked boats and flipped-over cars in the streets. After the storm, the area was filled with flattened houses, crushed businesses and mangled playgrounds.

President Trump said Thursday he does not believe the Israeli government is spying on the United States.
His remarks came after a news report said U.S. officials thought Israel had placed surveillance devices around Washington.
“I don’t think the Israelis are spying on us,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. “I really would find that hard to believe.”
Trump said he has a strong relationship with Israel, pointing to his administration’s policies on Iran, of which the Israeli government has been supportive. Trump later added that “anything is possible” but repeated that he doesn’t believe it.
Read more at The Hill.

Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen told former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday that his appeal against possible criminal charges against him has been rejected, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The rejection may pave the way for an indictment of McCabe, who according to a Justice Department Inspector General’s report made false statements to federal investigators about his disclosure of information to a journalist in 2016.
McCabe was fired without receiving a pension by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018 after the IG concluded McCabe “lacked candor” when questioned about the incident.

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang will reportedly announce a $120,000 giveaway during Thursday night’s primary debate — a move that he left as a surprise but said would be “unprecedented,” Politico reports.
Yang’s campaign will randomly select 10 families for the giveaway and award them a total of $120,000 over the next year, with each family getting $1,000 per month, as the team pilots a program for the White House hopeful’s universal basic income proposal, according to Politico.

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Rav Chaim Shaul Kahan.
Rav Chaim Shaul leaves behind his wife, Rebbetzin Devorah, and his five children, sons R’ Mordechai in Lakewood and R’ Moshe in Far Rockaway and daughters Mrs. Yocheved Kikin of Lakewood, Mrs. Hinda Rivka Levy from Flatbush and Mrs. Miriam Harrar from Lakewood.
The levayah will be tomorrow Friday at Shomrei Hadas, located at 3803 14th Ave, Brooklyn, New York.
Boruch Day Emmes.

Senior leaders of the Chabad movement in Israel have endorsed the Yahadut HaTorah party, just days ahead of the September 17th general election.
Rabbi Chaim Shalom Deitsch, the head of the Tzemach Tzedek organization, and Rabbi Zalman Goffin of Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim of Kfar Chabad came out with a special call for Chabad-Lubavitch members to vote for the UTJ in the upcoming elections next week.
Rabbi Deitsch wrote: “In answering the question of who to choose, we have nothing but the words of the Rebbe who said we should vote for the most charedi list, and it is undoubtedly the list of Agudat Yisrael,”
Rabbi Goffin also said: “The most charedi party, as the Rebbe instructed us [to support], is the Yahadut HaTorah party.”