By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com I was once asked to translate for a well-respected Rosh Kollel from an illustrious Torah family. The Avreichim in the Kollel did amazing Kirub
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Andrew Cuomo, the sick, disgraced former governor of New York, is plotting his path back to power. According to people close to Cuomo, who is now facing possible prison time
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The body of Yanai Rimon, z’l, who was swept away in a waterfall in Mexico on Wednesday was found on Motzei Shabbos. “The Rimon family announces with unbearable grief that
A Turkish court on Friday extended the arrest of the Israeli couple who were arrested for photographing the palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Turkish prosecutors telling the judge
A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison with hard labor, the maximum penalty under three charges, despite calls by the
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