Amy Skinner took notice when brightly colored structures started taking shape earlier this year on a drab patch of asphalt across from a Los Angeles park where she occasionally slept outdoors. Skinner, who’s been homeless for three years, watched as workers built a fence with a security gate and transformed the city-owned property into LA’s […]

When Ann Camden learned last month that her 17-year-old daughter got exposed to the coronavirus at school and was being sent home, she packed her belongings, jumped in the car

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Will the coronavirus ever go away? No one knows for sure. Scientists think the virus that causes COVID-19 may be with us for decades or longer, but that doesn’t mean it will keep posing the same threat. The virus emerged in late 2019 and it’s difficult to predict how it will behave over the long […]

Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with Channel 12 News on Thursday night that after the election he’ll “take Netanyahu and the Chareidim in a wheelbarrow to

Syria’s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded almost 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country, the U.N. children’s agency said Wednesday. The grim statistics were released in a UNICEF report ahead of the 10th anniversary of Syria’s conflict that began in […]

When Joe Biden visited this corner of southwestern Pennsylvania in the final weeks before the election, his goal wasn’t to win it so much as to show the area’s overwhelmingly white working-class electorate that his party was at least willing to try. “A lot of white, working-class Democrats thought we forgot them,” Biden said after […]

The Allure Group’s King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its newly installed aquatherapy pool. The addition of the pool, the first of its

A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot and will receive $557 million after taxes, officials said Friday. The winners claimed their prize weeks after

John Joseph Brown, 88, died peacefully last week at his home in Queensbury on February 6, 2021. John was an army veteran and a real estate agent. For decades, (1977

Jewish groups in Switzerland joined Muslim groups in protesting a ban on face-coverings as an infringement on religious freedom after a referendum was passed to ban them on Sunday, JTA reported. In a statement, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis and a Zurich native, said that the Swiss “has a […]

Taking place in the home of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlita in Eretz Yisroel, and with the participation of HaRav Reuven Feinstein shlita and HaRav Elya Brudny shlita in the U.S.,

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop

The IDF announced on Thursday that it has vaccinated the majority of its soldiers. “After ten weeks, I can say that the IDF is the first military in the world to reach herd immunity,” said Maj. Gen. Itzik Turgeman, the head of the military’s Technology and Logistics Directorate, which oversees its Medical Corps. Turgeman said […]

The first week of jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death established patterns for how attorneys go about dismissing potential jurors they perceive as unfavorable to their side. The defense is striking people who tell the court they already have strong feelings about Derek Chauvin’s guilt. […]

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Pesach vacation is almost here for some high school girls, and has already started for others.  During the school year,  most Girls’ high schools generally have davening take place in school itself. In the pre-COVID days many of them had it in a large auditorium, but in COVID times […]

A 21-year-old man who suffered a medical emergency during firefighter training in upstate New York died nine days after being stricken. Peyton Morse died Friday afternoon at Guthrie Hospital in

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In next Erev Shabbos’s Daf HaYomi (Psachim 118a) and in the Hallel HaGadol of the Haggadah, we can present a very nice interpretation of HaGaon HaRav Avrohom Trop.  It is on the idea that the parnassa of a person are as difficult as Krias Yam Suf – the splitting […]

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