My father is a big Talmid Chacham, and was a rabbi in an important yeshiva, now the yeshiva closed, and he is left without any income! Beside this he has a son with down syndrome who requires special treatments not covered by insurance and needs special education. Please help him go through these momentary hardships, until he finds a new position, and has something to go through the holidays happily! Thank you so much for your generous contribution, and may Hashem bless you and your family! CLICK HERE TO DONATE!​

Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees a broader potential audience in stadiums, offices and elsewhere. Customers at the stores near Amazon’s campus in Washington can flash a palm for entry and to buy goods. The company chose palm recognition, according to Dilip Kumar, vice president of Physical Retail & Technology, because it’s more private than other biometric technology, and a person would be required to purposefully flash a palm at the Amazon One device to engage. “And it’s contactless, which we think customers will appreciate, especially in current times,” Kumar wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

Scott Brennan stood powerless in the Iowa Democratic Party’s war room in the wee hours of Feb. 4 as efforts to report 2020′s first presidential caucuses results failed spectacularly. But the Des Moines lawyer had been worried for years. He had been the Iowa Democratic chairman when Barack Obama won in 2008, and since had seen the state trending solidly Republican, with President Donald Trump easily carrying it in 2016. Iowa’s swing state days were gone, he thought. “It’s over man,” Brennan said in February. But there are signs Iowa may be competitive again. Deep concerns about the economy and dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus have changed dynamics of the race.

In what is likely the first incident of its kind in the area, a deer was seen running around the Flatbush community on Tuesday. Flatbush Shomrim was the first to receive multiple calls from residents in the area of Ocean Parkway and Avenue S reporting a deer jumping from property to property. The NYPD was called, and after chasing it around for more than an hour, Emergency Services Officers managed to shoot it with a tranquillizer. It was unknown where the deer came from, as there are no deer whatsoever in this residential community. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The following is a letter that was received today by all Ezer Mizion staff. They are currently in desperate need of equipment to save the burgeoning numbers of coronavirus patients in Israel.  Click here to help them get the equipment they need. They are accepting all donations at this time to bring in the equipment they need. Dear Team, We are in the throes of a new outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Israel is in lockdown. Thousands are being tested daily and the numbers of confirmed patients rises every single day. The numbers of people who are seriously ill, hospitalized and those on respirators is increasing at a frightening pace. To meet the growing need, Ezer Mizion is in urgent need of additional respiratory equipment for immediate loan.

A father who escaped from the cult with 5 young children, the youngest just a couple of months old desperately needs your help. The mother who refused to leave, only showed up to challenge him in an expensive and tough custody battle that forced him to borrow money and sink further into debt. He now faces the daunting task of raising them alone while trying to make parnassa and starting a business with no funds. Please open your hearts and contribute generously to give these children a chance at having a good life, with the proper care they need, rent, food, education, clothing, house cleaning and nanny care etc. And help their father get on his feet so he can provide for them-that would be ideal! Click to donate!

Easing winds gave California firefighters a break Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural blaze that killed three people. Breezes replaced the powerful gusts that sent the Glass Fire raging through Napa and Sonoma counties Sunday and Monday, scorching more than 66 square miles (170 square kilometers). At least 95 buildings have burned in wine country, including homes and winery installations. A wildfire burning farther north in rural Shasta County has destroyed another 146 buildings. The fire in wine country pushed through brush that had not burned for a century, even though surrounding areas were incinerated in a series of blazes in recent years.

The following is an op-ed co-written by rabbi Chaim David Zwiebel and Avi Schick in the NY Daily News: Yesterday, Jews across the world observed Yom Kippur. It was a day filled with prayer, introspection and commitment to improve. On more than a half-dozen occasions, we asked God to suppress plague and disease . . .  Anyone who ministers to a congregation knows that too often there is a disconnect between what we pray for and our behavior. We sincerely seek the end of the virus, but we are not yet doing all that we can to make that happen. Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health experts have pointed to wearing a mask as the single most important step one can take to prevent the spread of the virus.

Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91. In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations that continues to this day. His 2006 ascension in Kuwait, a staunch U.S. ally since the American-led war that expelled occupying Iraqi troops, came after parliament voted unanimously to oust his predecessor, the ailing Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, just nine days into his rule.

U.S. home prices rose at a faster pace in July as the housing market continued to show strength in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, rose 3.9% in July from a year earlier, up from a 3.5% annual gain in June. The July gain was slightly higher than economists had expected. The 20-city index excluded prices from the Detroit metropolitan area index because of delays related to pandemic at the recording office in Wayne County, which includes Detroit. Phoenix (up 9.2%), Seattle (7%) and Charlotte, North Carolina (6%), reported the biggest year-over-year gains. Sixteen of the 19 cities saw prices rise at a faster pace than they did in June. The smallest gains came in Chicago (up 0.8%) and New York (1.3%).