by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Technological advances can make enormous changes in life. Medicine, for example, has advanced enormously with ever improving imaging techniques. Communications as well, have improved with the combination of cell towers and advanced video processing algorithms. It is time to bring the Parah Adumah back and here is how we […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Reb Aryeh Kanievsky shlita is the grandson of Rav Chaim zt”l, and spent many hours each day being meshamesh him. He learned in the Ponevech Yeshiva under Rav Gershon Edelstein and under Rav Boruch Dov Povarsky. He also runs the amutah established by Rav Chaim l’zaicher nishmas his grandmother. […]
Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, 34, the terrorist who murdered four Israelis on Tuesday was deemed a “ticking time bomb” by prosecutors in 2015 but was nevertheless granted a lenient four-year prison sentence. Abu al-Qi’an, who was married and a father of four, was working as an elementary school teacher in the Bedouin town of Hura […]
As Russia escalates its war in Ukraine and stories of civilian casualties and destruction in cities reach the United States, support has risen for a major American role — and so has fear of the threat Russia poses to the U.S. The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds […]
It’s not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being scrutinized. Senators are also being watched at this milestone moment in history considering the first Black woman for the high court. Some senators are overcome with “joy,” as Cory Booker of New Jersey described the swell of emotion he felt over the […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday made a formal determination that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “Today, I can announce that, based on information currently available, the U.S. government assesses that members of Russia’s forces have committed […]
HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein, the brother-in-law of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, met with the police officers who guarded the mittah of the Gadol HaDor at the levaya on Sunday.
NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of fighting in Ukraine, where the country’s defenders have put up stiffer-than-expected resistance and denied Moscow the lightning victory it hoped for. A senior NATO military official said the estimate was based on information from Ukrainian officials, what Russia […]
Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, director of New York government relations for Agudath Israel, joined elected officials from Queens, as well as religious leaders, advocates, and families to call on New York
OJPAC on Tuesday released statistics it obtained from the New York State Education Department showing massive increases in the number of students enrolled in yeshivos over the past 20 years.
Rabbi Eliyahu Greenberg is used to distressed phone calls. As the head of a chesed organization that helps impoverished families in Eretz Yisroel, his phone is constantly ringing with urgent
Channel 12 News reporter Yair Cherki published a rare video of the levaya of HaRav Chaim Kanievksy’s father, the Steipler, z’tl, in Bnei Brak in 1985. Since 1985, the world
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Devorah Chana Phillipson of Monsey. She was 55. Devorah Chana a”h, was born in Boro Park to Mr. and Mrs.
U.S. securities regulators say they have legal authority to subpoena Tesla and CEO Elon Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out a 2018 court agreement that his tweets be pre-approved is not valid. The Securities and Exchange Commission also disclosed publicly that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that […]
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded his endorsement of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks in his state’s Republican Senate primary, dealing a major blow to the congressman’s campaign. In a statement, Trump cited Brooks’ performance in the race and what he perceived as Brooks’ attempt to move Republicans beyond Trump’s false 2020 election fraud claims. […]
In response to a question about one of her previous judicial rulings, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted that the Black Hebrew Israelite group is a cultural and
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said new forms of digital money such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins present risks to the U.S. financial system and will require new rules to protect
Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 84. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. She had previously been Clinton’s ambassador to the United […]
With Europe facing its most precarious future since World War II, President Joe Biden will huddle with key allies in Brussels and Warsaw this week as the leaders try to prevent Russia’s war on Ukraine from spiraling into an even greater catastrophe. Biden embarked Wednesday on a four-day trip that will test his ability to […]
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