Baruch Dayan Emmes: Shimon Yochai Lasri z”l, a 21-year-old son of popular rav and baal teshuvah speaker Rabbi Michael Lasri Shlita, was niftar on Shavuos morning after drowning in Ashdod

It is now being confirmed the death toll in the mass shooting in Florida has reached 50 and the official number of wounded stands at 53. US President Barak Obama

A gunman who appears to be identified with the Islamic State opened fire in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub, murdering over 50 people and leaving at least as many wounded

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Weary Republicans are looking for assurances that Donald Trump can maintain the discipline needed to stay on message as he prepares for a bruising general election run-up against Hillary Clinton.

Far from ending the two wars he inherited from the Bush administration, Barack Obama is wrestling with an expanded set of conflicts in the final months of his presidency, from

Six airlines won permission Friday to resume scheduled commercial air service from the U.S. to Cuba for the first time in more than five decades, another milestone in President Barack

The presidential race shifted to the nation’s capital Friday, with Democrats executing a carefully orchestrated plan to unify their party around presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. Her likely general election rival,

This past Tuesday, David Duke, that proverbial fount of informed discourse, made a series of bizarre and baseless remarks about Jews on his radio program. This should come as no

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times PREPARING FOR SHAVUOS Shavuos is called Z’man Matan Toraseinu. Originally, this event occurred in the Hebrew year 2448 (3324 years

[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times] It is a custom whose roots reach back to the earliest era of our nationhood. In order to make up

Italy’s parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that would criminalize the spreading of Holocaust-denial propaganda as well as any statements that deny genocide or crimes against humanity. Those prosecuted could

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke this week defended Donald Trump on his radio show over comments Trump made about the Mexican roots of Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Duke blamed

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Today, a number of people will be getting haircuts for Shabbos and for Shavuos. If those people read this article

Belgian authorities have carried out another search and arrest in the investigation into the suicide bombings that killed 32 at Brussels Airport and the city’s subway in March. The Federal

There’s an old saying: You get what you pay for. Or maybe not, at least in the world of Social Security. Workers pay for the Social Security Administration (SSA) through