New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he intends to run for a fourth term in 2022.
Should he be reelected, Cuomo would be only the second governor in New York history to win a fourth, four-year term. His father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, served three terms and lost his bid for a fourth. New York has no gubernatorial term limits.
“I believe this state is doing great things at a time when a nation is floundering. I believe that. I believe we have the opportunity to set a standard for progressivity and normalcy. I know this job. I work seven days a week at it, and I think we have accomplishments,” he said.
Read more at The Hill.
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MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has promised to give half her fortune to charity.
She joins billionaires such as investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates in the Giving Pledge. The pledge was started by Buffett and Gates and calls for the richest to give away half or more of their wealth.
Bezos is estimated to be worth almost $37 billion after she got half of her husband’s fortune in a divorce settlement earlier this year.
Read more at BBC.
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As the Torah world readies itself for the 13th siyum hashas this upcoming January, a group of women are planing their own event to celebrate the end of the seven year cycle that covers the entire Shas, one Daf at a time.
The women’s event is scheduled for Sunday, January 5, 2020 at Binyanei Ha’uma in Yerushalayim. The event is being hosted by Daf Yomi 4 Women, an organization that offers daily Gemara shiurim for women.
For those who haven’t followed the full cycle, there will be a full completion of Shas at the event. Each participant will receive a page they will study, and together they will all jointly finish Shas term.
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Joe Biden’s campaign on Tuesday issued a sharp response to President Trump’s criticism of the former vice president while on a state visit to Japan, calling the president’s attacks on his potential 2020 rival “beneath the dignity of the office.”
“To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former Vice President speaks for itself,” deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement. “And it’s part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at the expense of our institutions – whether taking Putin’s word at face value in Helsinki or exchanging ‘love letters’ with Kim Jong Un.”

The city council in Krakow, Poland, has announced that a municipal street will be named next month after Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann, a caretaker of the Krakow ghetto orphanage.
During the liquidation of the orphanage by the Nazis, Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live or join them in their deaths.
Some 77 years after Kurzmann chose the latter, Walkative! tour guides collected hundreds of signatures to support their cause of honoring Kurzmann for his dedication, as well as the lives of the 300 orphans that were murdered.
The street-naming ceremony will take place on June 25.

President Trump’s son-in-law and assistant Jared Kushner has departed on a trip to Morocco, Jordan and Israel, the White House said Tuesday, signalling a fresh round of talks on a proposed US Mideast peace plan.
Kushner is accompanied by Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special representative to international negotiations, and Brian Hook, the special US representative for Iran, the White House said.
They “will travel from May 27 to May 31 to Rabat, Amman, and Jerusalem,” said a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Helped by the Israel Women’s Network, an 18-year-old woman barred from an Egged bus by a religious driver due to inappropriate garb is suing the company for $70,000 under charges of gender discrimination.
The woman was trying to reach her first day at work from a West Bank settlement and needed to be transported there by her mother due to the driver’s refusal.
Regretting that the driver “applied his personal worldview” to the situation, Egged said he had been summoned for a disciplinary inquiry.
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If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable to form a government by Wednesday at midnight, it is within parliament’s authority to dissolve itself, President Reuven Rivlin’s office said Tuesday, adding that the president “he hopes that we won’t be caught, G-d forbid, in another election campaign.”
“It is under the authority of the Knesset, according to the same exact law, to decide on dissolving [the Knesset],” the statement continued. “In light of this, the Knesset, as the representative of the sovereign, meaning the people, will bear the consequences of the decision in the future.”

A-Risalah Net, a site affiliated with the Hamas terror organization, on Tuesday morning said Iran has agreed to pay Gazan “martyrs'” families a total of half a million dollars.
The 1,700 families will receive a one-time grant through Iran’s “Palestinian Martyr” fund, intended to compensate for the cuts in their salaries.
Though the Palestinian Authority pays its own terrorists full salaries, it cut the salaries of 1,700 terrorists’ families and 2,000 prisoners and wounded from Gaza.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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