Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Wednesday that he “misspoke” when he told reporters he may slow his frenetic campaigning pace after a recent heart attack.
The Vermont senator backtracked in an interview with NBC News just a day after indicating that health concerns would force him to change “the nature” of his campaign, in the short term, at least.

California’s biggest utility cut power to more than a million people Wednesday for what could be days on end in the most sweeping effort in state history to prevent wildfires caused by windblown power lines.
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The combative White House letter vowing to defy the “illegitimate” impeachment inquiry has actually put President Donald Trump on a more certain path to charges. His refusal to honor subpoenas or allow testimony would likely play into a formal accusation against him.

An Islamic terrorist already serving a life prison term for a bombing in New York City has been convicted of multiple counts of attempted murder and assault stemming from a shootout with police three years ago.
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The goats play a central, yet little understood, role in the avodah of Yom Kippur (no longer performed, but part of the Tefilos).  The chicken plays a role in the Ashkenazic practice of Kapparos immediately before Yom Kippur– also a little understood ritual.
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Pikuach Nefesh,
It is one of those things that no one really learns, almost like that invisible elephant in the room that we don’t want to talk about.
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The following is an open letter from Councilman Deutsch sent to the community on Erev Yom Kippur:
Dear neighbors,
The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins tonight at sunset, and I am writing to wish all those who observe an uplifting and meaningful holiday and an easy fast.

A While Ago,I heard an incredibly disheartening story about a man with an elderly neighbor in failing health.  He knew that she had almost no food, no access to medical care and no relatives at all.
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A female animal rights activist was captured on video weeping and crying as she held a chicken by a Kaparos Center in Brooklyn.
In the video below, watch the unnamed woman as she holds the chicken as if she is holding an infant.

E-cigarette vapor causes lung cancer and potentially bladder cancer in mice, damaging their DNA and leading researchers at New York University to conclude that vaping is likely “very harmful” to humans as well.
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