Avinu Malkenu
Our Father, our King,
we have sinned before You….
Our Father, Our King,
show us grace and answer us, for we have no good deeds
Perform acts of benevolence and kindness for us
and save us

(Jewish New Year) begins at sundown on Monday September 29
and ends at nightfall on Wednesday October 1

~ Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch
Sixth leader of Chabad-Lubavitch; 1880-1950; lived in Lubavitch, Warsaw and New York; headed the movement’s active resistance against the Communist suppression of religion in Russia and transferred the movement to the US during World War II.

~ Daniel 9:18-20

Israel should withdraw from nearly all territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace with the Palestinians and Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Monday as telling a newspaper
OLMERT LAMENTS "EVIL WIND OF ISRAELI EXTREMISM"
EU mission supports FATAH police
PA official: Hamas looking to destabilize FATAH
FATAH to launch "Third Intifada"
Hamas releases 35 Fatah men from Gaza Strip jail
PA, Israel negotiating for release of top Hamas "parliamentarian"
Mideast Quartet Urges Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord by Year's End

Hamas "parliamentarian" calls for more “martyrdom operations”
Hamas MP: A Palestinian Who Kills One Jew Will Be Rewarded As If He Killed 30 Million

Stocks slip after European banks get bailed out
US authorities said Monday they had facilitated a takeover of Wachovia's banking operations by Citigroup Inc. in a deal that gives the government a stake in one of the nation's biggest banks.
$920B more to bail out the world
Somali pirates aboard a ship carrying tanks and weapons that they have seized say they are surrounded by at least three foreign warships.
One is the American US destroyer USS Howard, another is from Russia but the nationality of the third is not clear. But one of the pirates said they were not afraid and had enough food to withstand a siege. A maritime expert said the ship was carrying "dangerous chemicals" and warned against using force.
Pirates "Die Strangely" after taking Ukranian ship
Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill "within days" of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.
Crewman dies in Somalia pirate drama: captain
One of the European crew on board a Ukrainian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates has died of an illness, his captain said Monday, in a telephone interview from the vessel.
US: Hijacked arms headed to Sudan, not Kenya
May Michael be at my right & Gabriel at my left
MI MINI MICHA EL UMISMOLI GAVRI EL
Uriel before me and Raphael behind me
UMILFONAI URI EL U MAY ACHORAI R'FO EL
And above my head... the Presence of GOD
V'AL ROSHI SH'CHINATH EL
Avinu Malkenu ~ Reb Yisroel Edelson