Olaf Scholz became Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor Wednesday, opening a new era for the European Union’s most populous nation and largest economy after Angela Merkel’s 16-year tenure. Scholz’s government takes office with high hopes of modernizing Germany and combating climate change but faces the immediate challenge of handling the country’s toughest phase yet […]
Con Edison, the New York utility company, is planning to build an electric transmission facility off the coast of New Jersey to connect multiple offshore wind projects and bring the power ashore. The company on Monday proposed “Clean Link New Jersey,” a transmission network into which numerous turbine-powered wind farms can plug. It would carry […]
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Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may offer important protection against the new omicron variant even though the initial two doses appear significantly less effective.
The NYPD is searching for a thief who broke into the same shul 3 times over the past two weeks, swiping at least $2,200 from the shul pushka during the
Congressional leaders reached an elaborate deal Tuesday that will allow Democrats to lift the nation’s debt limit without any votes from Republicans, likely averting another last-minute rush to avoid a federal default. Hours later, the House passed legislation overwhelmingly along party lines that kicked off a multi-step process. Congress approved a $480 billion increase in […]
Why did NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio suddenly impose a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on private businesses? To stick a finger in the eye of Mayor-elect Eric Adams, insiders told the
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors, the latest in a string of victories for Republican-led states pushing back against Biden’s pandemic policies. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker, in Augusta, Georgia, issued a stay to bar enforcement of the […]
A helicopter carrying India’s military chief crashed Wednesday in southern Tamil Nadu state, killing 13 of the 14 people on board, a senior government official said. Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat’s condition was not immediately announced. S.P. Amrith, a senior civil administrator of the area where the crash took place, said rescuers were able […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The following collection of Rav Elyashiv zatzal’s rulings on commonplace matters involving theft has been adapted from the Ashrei HaIsh series, a compilation of Rav Elyashiv’s writings. The questions have been reformulated to accommodate this format. If someone has a discount at a bookstore and his friend does not. […]
A 26-year-old woman was stabbed and seriously injured next to Kever Shimon HaTzaddik in Jerusalem at about 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning as she was taking her children to school
A prominent CNN anchor was in contact with Jussie Smollett, the black actor who allegedly fabricated a story about being attacked by hooded white men in Chicago last year, it
Residents of Israel’s seaside metropolis Tel Aviv have for years complained of how expensive it is, with living costs taking a chunk out of their paychecks. Now a new report affirms their dissatisfaction with the prices. Tel Aviv has emerged as the most expensive city to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a […]
Everybody wants to be a Talmid Chacham, everybody wants their children to be Talmidei Chachamim. What exactly is a Talmid Chacham? What’s the definition of a Talmid Chacham? They tell
Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, a whistleblower alleged Tuesday. In devastating evidence to a parliamentary committee, Raphael Marshall said thousands of pleas for help via […]
Not a US citizen? No problem. Cast your vote here. That’s the message New York City is sending to non-citizen residents of the Big Apple who comprise nearly 1 in
The Jerusalem District Planning Committee on Monday froze the plans for the construction of a new Chareidi neighborhood in Atarot, saying that a survey must first be carried out on
The national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates met Monday with Iran’s hard-line president in Tehran, a major visit for the Gulf Arab federation that has long viewed the Islamic Republic as its main regional threat. Israel is very concerned about the warming of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Iran, Yisrael Hayom […]
Members of the Toras Emunasan forum, a Dati Leumi organization that is working to combat the daycare cuts advanced by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, demonstrated outside the home of Yamina
China accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit on Tuesday after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns. Rights
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