The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency said Saturday that Iran pledged to restore cameras and other monitoring equipment at its nuclear sites and to allow more inspections at a facility where particles of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade were recently detected. But a joint statement issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran’s […]
Increases in China’s defense budget have been “appropriate and reasonable” and are aimed at meeting “complex security challenges,” a spokesperson for the country’s rubber-stamp parliament said Saturday. Wang Chao gave no indication of whether the rate of increase to be announced Sunday at the opening of the National People’s Congress’s annual session would be above […]
A skin lesion removed from President Joe Biden’s chest last month was a basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer — his doctor said Friday, adding that no further treatment was required. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden’s longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully […]
The Biden administration now considers Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich a “persona non grata,” Channel 12 News reported on Friday. The administration is furious about Smotrich’s statement that “Huwara should be wiped out,” and according to the report, a US source told Channel 12: “If Smotrich was ‘persona non grata’ before this statement, now…he is ‘persona […]
Rosh Yeshivas Tifrach HaGaon HaRav Aviezer Piltz paid a shiva visit to Reb Avraham Noach Paley, who is sitting shiva for his two sons, murdered in the Ramot terror attack,
The publicist Yehonatan Geffen, who has been a columnist in Yediot Achranot for many years, shamelessly called for murderous violence against supporters of the current government, calling on opposition leader
An Israeli man was injured over the weekend in a shooting attack in southern Chevron. An Arab terrorist shot at a passing car and the driver sustained a bullet wound
In this heartfelt tefilla found in the Vilna Siddur, we beseech Hashem to merit having pure children and grandchildren who busy themselves learning His holy Torah, and doing His mitzvos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation Parshas Tetzaveh is somewhat unique. It is the only parshah after Bereishis in which Moshe Rabbeinu’s name is strangely absent. Bereishis, of course, all took place before Moshe Rabbeinu was born. (In Dvarim, the entire sefer begins with, “These are the words that Moshe spoke,” so […]
Republican senators are accusing the Biden administration of using $39 billion meant to build computer chip factories to further “woke” ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor. The administration has countered that these elements of the funding guidelines announced Tuesday will improve the likelihood of […]
As dead whales continue to wash ashore on the U.S. East Coast — and particularly the Jersey Shore — officials and academics are planning a wide array of monitoring and research aimed at preventing or minimizing harm to whales and other marine life during construction and operation of offshore wind farms. A dead whale washed […]
The arrival this week to Rio de Janeiro of two Iranian warships that Brazil’s government authorized to dock has prompted rebukes both from Israel and the U.S. “Israel sees the docking of Iranian warships in Brazil a few days ago, as a dangerous and regretful development,” the spokesperson of Israel’s foreign relations ministry, Lior Haiat, […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump are each headed to Iowa in the coming weeks, making their first trips of the year to the leadoff Republican voting
A run of strong economic data and signs that inflation remains stubbornly high could lead the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate higher in the coming months than it has previously forecast, several Fed officials say. On Thursday, Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s influential Board of Governors, said that if the economy […]
Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability and the limits of executive power. The department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked briefly Thursday in the highest-level in-person talks between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But there was no indication of any movement toward easing the intense tensions between their two nations. The short encounter came as relations between Washington and […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable. But experts say removing them will cost billions, a burden that will fall hardest on small communities with few resources. Concerned about the chemicals’ ability to […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com 404 Pages. 2023, Artscroll’s Shaar Press There is no storyteller like Nachman Seltzer. And there is no story like that of the development and growth of Roy and Leah Neuberger. Put them together in a manner that only Artscroll knows how to do, and you have a winning combination […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence declined to say Thursday whether he would back Donald Trump if his former boss were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. Pence, widely expected to seek the nomination himself, suggested that Trump’s leadership style isn’t what the party needs in the upcoming White House race. “I think we’ll […]
A frum father and two of his sons were tragically taken from us in a late-night residential home fire near 35th and Northern avenues in Phoenix on Wednesday night. The
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