NEW YORK NEWS

 Lee Zeldin has tightened the race for Governor to just 4 points, according to a Trafalgar Group Survey.  Zeldin, who is trailing incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul, touted the poll results on Twitter. “This latest poll shows that New Yorkers are starting to see who the real Kathy Hochul is, a corrupt, out-of-touch, weak Governor driving the state in the wrong direction,” he said.  Hochul is hitting back, trying to tie Zeldin to former President Trump.  “Lee Zeldin continues to embrace the most far-right fringe elements of his party,” she wrote on Twitter, “and he wants to be Governor of New York. I won’t let him drag our state backward.”

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 R’ Shimmy Benabou, a well-known Crown Heights businessman and entrepreneur in the food retail business, passed away Shabbos at the age of 49. Benabou was the founder of Koshertown on the corner of Albany and Empire, which turned from a corner store to a block supermarket with a cafe and Shabbos takeout. Benabou, who was known as a tremendous ba’al tzedakah, was honored as hundreds of people lined up on the service lane of Eastern Parkway to mourn his passing.  

Recap: The principal apologizes when he discovers that the culprit is really Kalman, and Kalman is suspended. The only problem is that when Ezra goes to the park to play basketball, Kalman jumps out and beats him up for telling on him. When he comes home with a black eye, his mother says she’s going to call the principal to tell him what happened. In the meantime, to distract himself from his troubles, Ezra sits down with Mickey to read more of the journal about the Wright brothers.