by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com His name was Rabbi Theodore Lewis z”l (1915-2010 – yahrtzeit 27 Tishrei). He was the Rabbi of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and was a talmid of Rav Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l and Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel zt”l as a student of the Mir Yeshiva. Later in life, […]
Two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after being struck in a drive-by shooting right outside Ahavas Olam shul in Southfield, Michigan. The incident occurred at around 11:15 pm on
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday night released the so-called Twitter Files, the details of which Musk had promised to release that show how Twitter suppressed free speech on its platform, particularly as it pertains to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. The following is what Taibbi wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread: What you’re about […]
A man who was freed in 2015 after spending a quarter-century in prison for an infamous tourist killing will receive nearly $18 million in legal settlements from the city and
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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday again demanded that he be reinstated as president following Elon Musk’s release of Twitter’s previous leadership’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the runup to the 2020 election. “Wow! That’s a really big story about Twitter and various forms of government Fraud including, specifically, Election Fraud,” Trump […]
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the
Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country’s oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it. Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set […]
A fast moving fire on Friday evening destroyed “Boosur” in South Fallsburg. Numerous fire departments from Sullivan and Ulster counties battled the blaze, which totaled the building. No injuries were
New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Mary Bassett said in a statement Friday that she was “leaving now so the next commissioner can have the chance to lead this great department for a full 4-year […]
A terrorist stabbed a Border Police officer shortly before Shabbos in the village of Huwara in the Shomron, lightly injuring him as he attempted to nab his weapon. The terror
A rocket was fired from Gaza into Israel at about 8 p.m. on Motzei Shabbos. The rocket landed in an open area near the town of Nachal Oz and b’chasdei
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Antisemitic rapper Kanye West has been booted from Twitter again after making multiple antisemitic posts on the platform Thursday night, including one in which he posted a mashup of the
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Chofetz Chaim writes that of the 248 positive Mitzvos of the 613 Mitzvos in the Torah, there are only 77 that are applicable today. The Chofetz Chaim writes in his preface to his Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar that a person should review these Mitzvos twice a week. What follows […]
President Joe Biden seemed to cast doubt on his plans to run for a second term in the White House while speaking at Tribal Nations Summit in Washington. As Biden
Salah Hamouri, a terrorist who years ago planned to assassinate HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef z’tl, will be deported from Israel to France, in a move advanced by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked. Hamouri, born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian father and a French mother in 1985, began engaging in terror activities from a young age and […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Most people know that there are six constant Mitzvos. But how often do we have to think about them? Here is an idea that can help us think about them hundreds of times a day. Download them as your phone wallpaper. The author can be reached at yairhoffman2@gmail.com
Earlier this week, Supreme Court Judge Yitzchak Amit rejected the appeal filed by the prosecutor’s office against the decision of a Jerusalem District judge to release to house arrest three
Legislation to avert what could have been an economically ruinous freight rail strike won final approval in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers responded quickly to President Joe Biden’s call for federal intervention in a long-running labor dispute. The Senate passed a bill to bind rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached […]
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