Students at Beth Rivkah Ladies College give a total of 148 feet of hair to Zichron Menachem foundation

JTA/TOI

Some 150 students at a Jewish school for girls in Australia donated their hair toward the production of wigs for Israeli children suffering the effects of cancer.

The shear took place last month at the Beth Rivkah Ladies College, a Chabad school in Melbourne, according to a report published Wednesday on the website of the Chabad movement. The students, who grew their hair for 10 months, gave up braids measuring four inches and longer to assist the Zichron Menachem charity in Israel.
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By World Watch Monitor, October 26, 2016:

The  Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ, Lafia, Nasarawa State destroyed.

Nigeria’s Middle Belt is the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, including this past week where attacks have occurred in both Kaduna and Benue states. Now a recent report about another state in the Middle Belt, Nasarawa, shows that it too has been the scene of serious violence against Christians. In the period January 2013–May 2016, 826 Christians were killed and 878 injured. There were 102 churches destroyed or damaged.
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By Patrick Goodenough | October 28, 2016

(CNSNews.com) – Russian President Vladimir Putin charged Thursday that the “elite” in the U.S. were trying to divert voters’ attention away from acute problems like the national debt, gun violence and police shootings by accusing Russia of trying to influence the election.

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By Jeff Dunitz, THE LID

“Pleading the Fifth” has become a kind of pop-culture reference with the rise in popularity of TV cop dramas.

We hear the phrase often in our popular media and we’ve come to believe it’s just something one says when facing down the authorities. However, it really isn’t that common of an event, and it can still be quite surprising when someone uses the phrase in a government hearing…

Especially when that someone is the Attorney General of the United States. Read more…

She appears to have used her official powers to do favors for major Clinton Foundation donors.

by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, NATIONAL REVIEW,  October 29, 2016 4:00 AM

Felony mishandling of classified information, including our nation’s most closely guarded intelligence secrets; the misappropriation and destruction of tens of thousands of government records — these are serious criminal offenses. To this point, the Justice Department and FBI have found creative ways not to charge Hillary Clinton for them. Whether this will remain the case has yet to be seen. As we go to press, the stunning news has broken that the FBI’s investigation is being reopened. It appears, based on early reports, that in the course of examining communications devices in a separate “sexting” investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the bureau stumbled on relevant e-mails — no doubt connected to Huma Abedin, Mr. Weiner’s wife and, more significantly, Mrs. Clinton’s closest confidant. According to the New York Times, the FBI has seized at least one electronic device belonging to Ms. Abedin as well. New e-mails, never before reviewed by the FBI, have been recovered. Read more…

By Lynne Lechter, PHILADELPHIA EXPONENT

The popular dystopian series The Hunger Games contrasts the pampered, powdered denizens of the capital district of Panem with the hardscrabble, miserable lives of the inhabitants of the surrounding districts that the capital controls. It stands as an allegory of our current choices for president. Hillary Clinton is the ultimate capital insider, with rings of assistants who poll test her every rehearsed and guarded word. Donald Trump is the rough-at-the-edges outsider, whose speech is not well-oiled, fluid or nuanced. He identifies with the poor workers and strives to overthrow the corrupt, oppressive power of the capital.
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By Yoram Ettinger
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #215, October 27, 2016

1. According to KPMG, one of the four largest global auditing firms, Israel has become a leading hothouse for FinTech companies. 9 out of 100 globally-promising FinTech companies are from Israel, an improvement from 8/100 in 2015. One of the Israeli companies, Payoneer digital payments company, raised $180MN on Oct. 6 in a round led by the Silicon Valley-based Technology Crossover Ventures and the Bala Cynwyd, PA-based Susquehanna Growth Equity (Globes Business Daily, Oct. 27, 2016).
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Obama has waited eight years to exact his revenge on Israel for not supporting his hostile, strategically irrational policies. And he has no interest in letting bygones be bygones.

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

Godfather 2, mafia boss Michael Corleone discusses the fate of his brother, who betrayed him, with his enforcer.

“I don’t want anything to happen to him while my mother is alive,” Corleone said.

Message received.

The brother was murdered after their mother’s funeral.
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By Deroy Murdock, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE

If Donald J. Trump becomes president, he barely will have time to attend his own inaugural parade. The Republican nominee promised voters in Gettysburg, Pa., Saturday that he would stay spectacularly busy on his first day in office.

As part of his Contract with the American Voter, Trump pledged to take 18 major steps on January 20, 2017. Most of these give center-right voters excellent reasons to support Trump at the polls.

Trump’s first six steps aim to “clean up the corruption and special-interest collusion in Washington, D.C.” Read more…

By Ted Belman

I have been waiting for this.

Sarah Palin Facebook post yesterday –

“Great day – returning home from early voting to see Todd, Trig & Tripp shooting pucks on our already-frozen lake; planning logistics to get back on the campaign trail for the last week of this imperative fight for our kids’ and grandkids’ future in the greatest country on God’s green earth!

This is huge. She has a huge following among Evangelicals, Catholics and women. She will definitely move the needle. She will influence many to vote.

Romney turned his back on her and he lost because millions of Evangelicals didn’t bother to vote.

Go Sarah Go.

By MARTIN SHERMAN

By presenting the divide between Trump & the post-Obama surrogate, Clinton, as an “America vs Europe” one, Pat Condell understates the true nature of the dichotomy

It is unusual for American voters to get a real choice in a presidential election but this is a genuine fork in the road for America—and the world. It’s one direction or another from here.

Pat Condell, America’s Moment Of Truth, October 25, 2016

The upcoming US presidential election has been a topic I have tried to refrain from writing about. Indeed, I wished to avoid expressing any opinion of the depressing debacle of the US elections, consoling myself with the thought that, in comparison, Israeli politics look like a dignified exercise of the democratic process.
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BY JIM GERAGHTY, NATIONAL REVIEW

I’m accused of being a pessimist about Donald Trump’s chances on Election Day — accurately. But let’s take the optimistic outlook for once, and see how things look for the GOP nominee if he catches a lucky break and the ball bounces his way.

Give Trump all of the traditionally Republican Mountain West states, the Midwest, Texas, and everywhere in the South except North Carolina and Florida, which we’ll return to later. Trump’s lead in Georgia has been small but consistent. Assume Evan McMullin doesn’t win Utah. Assume Hillary doesn’t steal an electoral vote in Nebraska. Trump’s only led one of the three polls in Arizona this month, but let’s assume that state sticks with its traditional support for the GOP nominee.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK?

THE BLAZE

Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Wednesday that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would be leading Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by eight points if he was the Republican presidential nominee.

In addition, he told Yahoo Global News anchor Katie Couric that Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who battled for the GOP nomination during the primary season, would be besting Clinton by 12 points. He said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who also fought hard against Trump but ultimately endorsed him, would be “dead even” with the former secretary of state right now.
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Ayelet Shaked: The attorney general can counsel the government, but when it comes to legislation, there’s no such thing as veto power and Knesset has final say • Mendelblit: Political echelon must understand rule of law doesn’t mean the rule of AG.

By Yair Altman, ISRAEL HAYOM

Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit has no veto power of legislation proposals, and his role begins and ends with providing the government with legal counsel, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Wednesday.

Speaking at a Kohelet Policy Forum, Shaked said that as elected public officials, the prime minister, ministers and MKs are the only ones with legislative power.
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Palestinian Authority Arabs take advantage of inspectors’ holiday for illegal land grabs.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Illegal Arab construction surged in Judea and Samaria during the Jewish holiday season, the non-governmental organization ‘Regavim’ reported, with Palestinian Authority residents taking advantage of the absence of building inspectors to establish facts on the ground.

Regavim documented dozens of instances of illegal construction which were undertaken during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, when building inspectors employed by the Civil Administration are on vacation.
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by Michael Freund, JPost
October 27, 2016

Yesterday marked the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, an event heralded at the time as a historic breakthrough, one that would bring about a warm and lasting reconciliation between the two countries for generations to come.

So much for the desert-driven delusions of the past.

For while the accord has certainly resulted in mutually beneficial arrangements, such as the 15-year gas deal signed by Jerusalem and Amman last month, the sad fact is that although Jordan may be Israel’s neighbor, it isn’t really much of a friend.
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I am going to vote for the candidate that protects the Constitution and makes America what it can be – and was.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

I am an Orthodox rabbi. I am also an attorney and an adjunct professor of law. I clerked 20 years ago for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Boggs, one of the most brilliant minds I ever have known in any of my walks of life, soon thereafter served as chief judge of the Sixth Circuit.

Of course, I am disgusted by the stories that dominate the election campaign. I am disgusted as a law professor, an attorney, a father of daughters, and as a rabbi. Women making accusations that they have been sexually abused — Paula Corbin Jones who received an $850,000 settlement from Bill Clinton; Kathleen Willey who went to Bill Clinton in the White House, desperate for a job after her husband killed himself; Juanita Broaddrick, a Clinton volunteer who insists he raped her; the new list of women whose names I am only now learning who say that Donald Trump groped or kissed them against their will. The abused women whose reputations and lives were destroyed by Hillary Clinton, as she defended her husband’s public profile after each “bimbo eruption.” Hillary referred to victims as “looney tunes” and worse, her team including the likes of James Carville and Sidney Blumenthal characterized them as “trailer trash,” and Hillary most infamously ruined the life of 12-year-old Kathy Shelton, raped by a 41-year-old whom Hillary was required to defend. There was nothing wrong in Hillary defending—every accused criminal deserves a good defense. But Hillary destroyed the girl in the process and proceeded years later laughing about that case and regaling an interviewer with anecdotes of that tragedy.
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technopeasant • 3 hours ago

Trump: 45.3 (+1.2)
Clinton 44.2 (-0.8)

DT+1.1 (was HC+0.9 yesterday)

Demographic shifts in margins:
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