Even airlines are fed up with the mask mandates on aircraft and in airports. The chief executives of the largest U.S. airlines are now asking President Biden to allow the
When patients are battling a terminal illness and want access to an experimental drug, how much evidence that it works should regulators require before approval? Thats the question behind many of the Food and Drug Administrations toughest decisions, including last years controversial approval of Aduhelm. Many experts including the agencys own outside advisers […]
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Do you know the answer to these questions? Why do we skip ahead at Mincha time and read part of the next week’s Sedrah? Do we need to
A man who pleaded guilty in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified Thursday that he joined the conspiracy hoping he would be killed in a shootout with police. I no longer wanted to live, Kaleb Franks told jurors, minutes after settling into the witness chair in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. […]
Three teenagers approached and harassed a group of Jewish children on Wednesday in the vicinity of 17th Avenue and 61st Street in Boro Park. Surveillance footage shows the trio approaching
YidFlicks is proud to present Mint Media’s educational documentary about the extraordinary life of Rav Chaim Kanivesky. This twenty minute film will leave you inspired like never before. Watch the
The European Unions drug regulator said Thursday it was recommending that an antibody medication developed by AstraZeneca be authorized to help some vulnerable people avoid getting sick with the coronavirus. The European Medicines Agency said in a statement that it was advising the use of the new drug, sold as Evusheld, in people age 12 […]
We all know Chaverim. The phone number securely listed in our contacts along with all emergency numbers. Its one of those numbers we never want to use but the knowledge that it exists brings a measure of calm. Many of us have experienced car trouble at some point and Chaverim arrived to assist us. Thats […]
YWN obtained rare footage of the Steipler, z’tl, and HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, at the groundbreaking ceremony of Yeshivas Haran in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem in 1983. It’s
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday about the “special military operation” in Ukraine, a statement from the Kremlin said. Bennett “shared his assessment of
Syrian dictator and mass murderer Bashar al-Assad went on a unhinged rant against Ukraine, claiming that is president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is a “Zionist Jew” who “supports the Nazis that killed the Jews.” The West has proven that it does not have friends or enemies. It has only one enemy anyone who stands in the […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Technological advances can make enormous changes in life. Medicine, for example, has advanced enormously with ever improving imaging techniques. Communications as well, have improved with the combination of cell towers and advanced video processing algorithms. It is time to bring the Parah Adumah back and here is how we […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Reb Aryeh Kanievsky shlita is the grandson of Rav Chaim ztl, and spent many hours each day being meshamesh him. He learned in the Ponevech Yeshiva under Rav Gershon Edelstein and under Rav Boruch Dov Povarsky. He also runs the amutah established by Rav Chaim lzaicher nishmas his grandmother. […]
Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qian, 34, the terrorist who murdered four Israelis on Tuesday was deemed a “ticking time bomb” by prosecutors in 2015 but was nevertheless granted a lenient four-year prison sentence. Abu al-Qian, who was married and a father of four, was working as an elementary school teacher in the Bedouin town of Hura […]
As Russia escalates its war in Ukraine and stories of civilian casualties and destruction in cities reach the United States, support has risen for a major American role and so has fear of the threat Russia poses to the U.S. The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds […]
Its not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being scrutinized. Senators are also being watched at this milestone moment in history considering the first Black woman for the high court. Some senators are overcome with joy, as Cory Booker of New Jersey described the swell of emotion he felt over the […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday made a formal determination that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Today, I can announce that, based on information currently available, the U.S. government assesses that members of Russias forces have committed […]
HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein, the brother-in-law of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, met with the police officers who guarded the mittah of the Gadol HaDor at the levaya on Sunday.
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