Former Vice President Joe Biden says “no one ever spoke to me” about his son’s work with a Ukrainian gas company.
His remark Wednesday came in response to comments made by a former State Department official to impeachment investigators last week.
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Once again, the fire department responded to the streets of Jerusalem’s Meah Shearim neighborhood to remove a Palestinian flag that was flying, presumably placed by residents.
Firemen succeeded in removing the flag without incident.
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Moshe Abutbul, former mayor of Beit Shemesh and now a freshman Shas MK, discovered on Monday that a fake Twitter account had been opened in his name.
“I filed a complaint to Knesset Security Officer Yosef Griff on a fake Twitter account in my name,” Abutbul said.
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A woman living in a van in San Diego with her pet rats has agreed to give them up – all 300 of them.
The San Diego Union-Tribune says the San Diego Humane Society went to the woman’s van near Del Mar on Oct.
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There has recently been a shortage of glatt meats resulting from shechita in Poland, which is where Badatz Eida Chareidis and Badatz Kehillos shecht, a Kikar Shabbos News report explains.
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Last year was a blessed one for the Kinneret, which gained far more than in any of the past recent years. Baruch Hashem, during the summer months, the Kinneret only lost 60cm (25.5 inches), far less than was predicted.
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A Kikar report on Wednesday profiled the rabbanim who will continue the legacy of Hagaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz ZATZAL.
The rabbanim filling the positions of R’ Karelitz in the past few years were appointed by the gadol himself.

On motzei Shabbos, October 26, motzei Shabbos Bereishis, Israel moves clocks to standard time.
On Sunday, October 27, 2019, at 2:00AM, clocks are turned backward 1 hour to 1:00AM, local standard time instead of daylight savings time.
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A poll released by Israel News13 shows that after two elections for Knesset, the nation remains almost evenly divided and neither side is capable of forming a coalition government without the other.
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At 8:00PM on Wednesday evening, President Reuven Rivlin gave the mandate to form the next government to Blue and White leader Benny Gantz Wednesday night. At a press conference in Jerusalem, Rivlin called on political parties to make “concessions,” while Gantz promised to “try to form a liberal union government.”