Following a day of violence in which one person was shot by police and another set on fire, Hong Kong’s leader pledged Monday to “spare no effort” to halt anti-government protests that have wracked the city for more than five months.
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The Ma’adanei Miki company, which produced packaged salads, dips and smoked fish, closed its doors last weeks after 80 years of operation. The company, which was officially founded in 1992, began as a family business in 1939.
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The first snow of the season may actually arrive Tuesday as some cold rain looks to transition into snow.
While the snow should not amount to much more than a coating in the city, areas to the far north and west in the higher elevations could get an inch or two.

The Chofetz Chaim writes that parents should daven for three things for their children – that they should be oskim baTorah, yarei shamayim, and have middos tovos. This statement of the Chofetz Chaim informs us of the goal and purpose of mosdos hachinuch – that after the eight or so years in yeshiva the child should come out imbued with ahavas haTorah, yiras shamayim and middos tovos.

White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is facing opposition, including from a former Trump administration adviser, in his bid to join a lawsuit over testimony in the House impeachment inquiry.
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A Jewish man is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed in what appears to have been an attempted robbery in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Sources tell YWN that the incident happened on Monday just after 1:00PM, when the victim – who is a contractor – received a phone call from a woman calling for an estimate on a construction job at Jarvis Avenue & Beach 7th Street.

Russia responded to Israel’s Supreme Court’s decision on Sunday to deny hacker Alexi Burkov’s appeal against his extradition to the United States, according to a Maariv report on Monday.
The Russian Embassy in Israel wrote on Twitter: “”We regret the decision of Israeli’s High Court of Justice to turn down Mr.

Turkey on Monday deported citizens of the United States and Denmark who fought for the Islamic State and made plans to expel other foreign nationals as the government began a new push to send back captured foreign fighters to their home countries, a Turkish official said.

The mother of children targeted in a one of a series of egg attacks on Jewish targets over the weekend in Brooklyn is speaking out.
Police said a synagogue was vandalized with eggs around 6 p.m.

Transportation Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Betzalel Smotrich had harsh words for the memorial marking the 24th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, citing the left-wing turned a memorial event into a left-wing political rally.
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