By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com One of the most confusing aspects of halacha regarding prayer lies in the nature of the obligation of Krias Shma for women. What follows is a brief overview of this area of halacha. Hopefully, it will clarify things – rather than confuse it. WOMEN ARE EXEMPT FROM TIME-BOUND MITZVOS […]
Kansas voters on Tuesday sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights, rejecting a ballot measure in a conservative state with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement
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Tree enthusiasts who make the trek to the world’s tallest tree deep in a Northern California forest will face a fine and possible jail time after park officials declared the remote area off-limits because of damage done by trampling visitors to the tree and surrounding forest, a park official said Monday. The tree, a 380-foot […]
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Israel Police on Wednesday arrested two more people who are suspected of involvement in the case of the disappearance of Moishe Kleinerman, who has now been missing for 130 days.
Israelis have a high rate of obesity compared to the rest of the world, don’t exercise enough, and smoke too much were the dismal results of Israel’s fourth national health survey published on Tuesday. The survey, carried out by the Health Ministry’s National Center for Disease Control, was based on phone interviews with 4,135 Israelis […]
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Elon Musk’s wealthy high tech allies don’t seem too happy about receiving subpoenas from Twitter as part of the company’s legal battle with the Tesla CEO. San Francisco-based Twitter is suing Musk in Delaware in an attempt to get him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, a deal Musk is […]
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A Saudi cleric prayed for G-d to “bring annihilation upon the plundering and occupying Jews” in a Friday night sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, according to a video translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute. “Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the plundering and occupying Jews for they are no match for you,” […]
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Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in a more than a decade-old maritime border dispute between the two neighbors, a U.S. envoy and Lebanese officials said Monday. Lebanon and Israel have been officially at war since Israel’s creation in 1948 and both countries claim some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) […]
Two more bodies were found within the burn zone of a huge Northern California wildfire, raising the death toll to four in the state’s largest blaze of the year, authorities said Tuesday. Search teams discovered the additional bodies Monday at separate residences along State Route 96, one of the only roads in and out of […]
Iran submitted an official letter of complaint to the UN Security Council about a statement made by Israel’s national security adviser, Channel 13 News reported on Monday evening. In a rare interview with Channel 13 last month, National Security Adviser Eyal Hulatah said, among other things: “We’ve acted in Iran not infrequently over the past […]
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