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The Nassau County Republican Party held a press conference demanding the resignation of Congressman George Santos.  Santos has made international headlines for weeks because of the lies about his resume, from where he attended college to his “Jew-ish” identity.  County Chairman Joseph Cairo led the call for him to resign. “George Santos’ campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies and fabrication,” Cairo said. “He deceived the voters of the 3rd Congressional District, he deceived members of the Nassau County Republican committee, elected officials, his colleagues, candidates, his opponents and even some of the media. He’s disgraced the House of Representatives and we do not consider him one of our congresspeople.” Cairo has led the Nassau Republicans to a series of wins, including the victories in 2021 with the election of Bruce Blakeman as County Executive and Anne Donnelly as District Attorney, and in 2022 with the flipping of multiple federal and state seats.  

Recap: Libby has a recurring scary dream where she’s freefalling from the sky. She starts her new job, and she has to go into the second-grade class where they already went through three teachers.

NEW YORK NEWS

Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals have gone on strike. Union officials failed to reach tentative agreements with hospital administrators in a dispute over pay and staffing levels. The walkout involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and about 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Seven other hospitals were able to reach tentative agreements to prevent strikes.  At these hospitals, patients are likely to see disruptions in emergency rooms, childbirth, and other areas of care. “The entire New York City Labor Movement stands with our nurses, who are courageously taking action against dangerous understaffing that threatens the safety of their patients,” AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez remarked. “The decision to go on strike is never an easy one, particularly for workers who care so deeply about the patients and communities they serve. But hospital executives created this crisis by failing to hire, train, and retain nurses while at the same time treating themselves to extravagant compensation packages. Now it’s time for them to fix what they’ve broken.”

Eretz HaKodesh, the recently formed and recently elected Charedei party within the WZO and Israel’s national institutions, expressed its strong opposition to a letter issued by the Jewish Agency for Israel, and signed on by Jewish Federations of North America, Keren Hayesod and the World Zionist Organization, that criticized the new Israeli government led by Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu.

Estate and gift tax rules can be confusing. This article serves to provide some clarity to what can be overwhelming at best.

There is a federal gift tax and estate tax as well as a New York State estate tax. It is important to understand that estate tax and gift tax go hand in hand.

Recap: Libby and Avi meet his parents in the pizza store and break the news about Avi leaving medical school to go learn. His parents are upset and say they will no longer help them financially.