🌱Yeshiva Fire + Hot Sauce Expo Back In Brooklyn • Daily Digest

Good morning, Brooklyn! It's Saturday, Oct. 16. A woman was spotted pouring gasoline on a Brooklyn Yeshiva Thursday and lit it. Read what happened next below.

Today's weather: Expect showers and an occasional thunderstorm. High: 76 Low: 54.

Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. Police are looking for a woman who tried to set fire to a Brooklyn Yeshiva Thursday. (Patch.com)
2. Kyla-Simone Sobers-Batties has been released from the hospital two weeks after being shot at a Brooklyn Park (CBS New York)
3. Here's why Kevin Durant isn't mad at Kyrie Irving: 'We are not going to change his mind." (The Athletic)
4. The annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo is returning a few months late, but it's still bringing the heat. (New York City Patch)
5. Staci Griesbach is digging deep into the country music of George Jones in Brooklyn. (Jazz-Quad)
6. Although often unseen, Jewish poverty is common in Brooklyn. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

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— Kevin Phinney

About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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