A Virgin Atlantic flight that departed London to Tel Aviv on Monday night was forced to turn back 20 minutes after takeoff when a laser beam hit the cockpit, temporarily
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Amazon is making its first foray into providing health care services, announcing Wednesday that it will be offering its Amazon Care telemedicine program to employers nationwide. Currently available to the
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Someone once said that we are in desperate need of a “Jewish Snopes” right now. That person may be spot on. Here is why.
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One of the last Iraqi Jews in Baghdad, a doctor who treated the poor free of charge, passed away at the age of 61, reports said on Tuesday. Dr. Thafer
Russia is recalling its ambassador to the United States for consultations, the foreign ministry said Wednesday without citing a specific reason. The move to bring Anatoly Antonov to Moscow comes
“It just doesn’t make any sense!” Rabbi Cohen* could feel his blood pressure rise. Yakov’s latest Chumash test faced him accusingly, crumpled and covered in red marks. Yakov, of course,
The Israeli Defense Ministry on Tuesday announced it has completed an upgrade of the country’s Iron Dome rocket-defense system to cope with an additional array of aerial threats. The Iron
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a historic visit to the tzion of Reb Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron on Wednesday afternoon together with Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana. The prime
When Shimon Levi was a baby, he survived a terrorist attack against all odds. A suicide bomber had set off 35 explosives right next to him and his parents. Hours
On Wednesday evening, a serious accident took place on Golda Meir Boulevard, where a minibus carrying a number of Charedim was involved in an accident with a private car. First
The European Union’s drug regulator insisted Tuesday that there is “no indication” the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots as governments around the world faced the grimmest of dilemmas: push on
A terrible tragedy occurred in Israel on Wednesday with the news of the passing of Reb Meir Fein, z’l, at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem at the age of 23,
Reports of more than 50 beheadings by Mozambique’s Islamic extremist rebels have raised international alarm over the new level of violence in the country’s north. The killings mark a bloody
Mrs. Hannah Porat was born in Munich, Germany. To a world-famous art-dealer, who she later discovered was a grandson of a jewish Cohen who intermarried with a german woman. PLEASE
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