South Korea confirmed Tuesday that Seoul and Washington are discussing its involvement in U.S. nuclear weapons management in the face of intensifying North Korean nuclear threats, after President Joe Biden
I am writing to you with a heavy heart, as my beloved father is facing an unimaginable struggle. His spine is injured and his kidneys are blocked due to a
Two men have been arrested and charged with vandalizing electrical substations in Washington state, attacks that left thousands without power over the holidays, and one suspect told authorities they did
A man who opened fire on a Brooklyn subway train last year, wounding 10 passengers in a rush-hour attack that shocked New York City, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal terrorism charges. Frank James, who had posted online that he was the “Prophet of Doom,” appeared in a Brooklyn federal court and admitted to pulling the […]
Forty-seven. That’s how many days of child care Kathryn Anne Edwards’ 3-year-old son has missed in the past year. RSV, COVID-19 and two bouts of the dreaded preschool scourge of hand, foot and mouth disease struck one after another. The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand […]
What are most teenage girls busy with? School. Friends. Shopping. Talking on the phone. But one 14-year-old girl was suddenly torn from this rosy, idyllic world, and thrust into an
In the wake of the fall of a Sefer Torah on Shabbos morning in Yeshivas Ponevezh, the Roshei Yeshivah established a day of teshuvah and hissorerus on Thursday as outlined
Chaim is the only boy in a family full of girls. He was thrilled that his bar mitzvah was approaching. Shortly before his bar mitzvah, he started to feel unwell.
Three members of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of Shas convened late Monday night in a meeting that was not coordinated with Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, the first such meeting of
Thousands of children from across Eretz Yisroel gathered in the main Gerrer beis medrash in Yerushalayim in the waning hours of Chanukah – after Mincha of Zos Chanukah— to depart from the yom tov of light with the fire of Torah. In the coming hours, thousands of children would be tested on hundreds of dapim […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com At the end of the 19th century, a girls’ cheder was established by Rebbitzen Malka (Malka the Rabbi’s wife) in Mir. The girls’ cheder taught the girls of the town to read and write, as well as some Chumash and Tehillim. The Cheder also taught the girls to write […]
An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot set for Tuesday night will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang. The big prize is the sixth-largest jackpot in U.S. history and has grown so large because no one has matched all six of the game’s numbers for more than […]
The Chinese government sharply criticized COVID-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against countries involved, which include the U.S. and several European nations. “We believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China lack scientific basis, and some excessive practices are even more unacceptable,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning […]
Three kedoshei elyon had one common concept when it came to learning Torah – they were the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar 1696-1743) when he came to Eretz Yisroel; the
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to charges that he cheated investors and looted customer deposits on his cryptocurrency trading platform as a judge
Agudath Israel of America is welcoming the inclusion of security funding and other community priorities in the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill signed last week by President Biden. The bill included $305 million for the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program (a top priority for Agudah discussed in more detail here) and funds many other programs of interest to Jewish […]
After years of much hard work and perseverance, Hatzalah of Waterbury has received full EMS licensure in the state of Connecticut. The license allows the organization to operate ambulances and
A 4-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and two adults survived Monday after their car plunged off a Northern California cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway near an area known as Devil’s Slide that’s known for fatal wrecks, officials said. The Tesla sedan plummeted more than 250 feet (76.20 meters) from the highway and crashed into […]
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