The Uvalde officer who was leading the citys police department during the hesitant law enforcement response to an elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down, a city spokeswoman said. Lt. Mariano Pargas retired on Thursday afternoon after 18 years working for the city, according to spokeswoman Gina Eisenberg. She […]
At least 17 members of one family were among those killed when a fire tore through a top-floor apartment in the Gaza Strip during a birthday party, a relative said Friday. Officials in Hamas-run Gaza have said Thursday nights blaze in a three-story residential building in the Jabaliya refugee camp was apparently fueled by stored […]
Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers on Thursday, after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to hardcore work or resign with severance pay. Some took to Twitter to announce they were signing off after Musks deadline to make the pledge. A number of employees took to a private forum […]
The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the presidents student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January. The Justice Department is fighting to keep Bidens plan […]
The Biden administration declared Thursday that Saudi Arabias crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, a turnaround from Joe Bidens passionate campaign trail denunciations of Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slaying. The administration said the senior position of the crown prince, […]
A new study carried out by Hebrew University revealed that the Philip Morris tobacco company published a far higher percentage of ads in the Chareidi sector than other minority populations
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Do you know Why BJJers only Date guys From Ponovezh?” BJJ, or Beis Jaakov Jerusalem, is considered one of the leading seminaries in Eretz Yisroel. Also known as Machon Sarah Schneirer, it is located in the Unsdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem. BJJ was launched in the early 1970s as a […]
U.S. home births increased slightly in the pandemics second year, rising to the highest level in decades, according to a government report published Thursday. Among almost 4 million births in 2021, nearly 52,000 occurred at home, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed. Thats up about 12% from 2020, following a 22% rise […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation In this weeks Parsha, Ephron tells Avraham Avinu, I have given you the field, and the cave that is in it Before the eyes of my people, I have given it to you; bury your dead. (Bereishis 23:11) The words Before the eyes of my people […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the S’fas Tamim Foundation QUESTION: My wife often asks me to do chores that involve a lot of manual labor. I am not really up
Move over, Dan’s Deals, we’ve got a new player. Dave Portnoy, the Jewish founder of Barstool Sports, found on a recent trip to a convenience store that he has a
The Orthodox Jew-obsessed New York Times hasn’t had its fill of attacks against religious Jewish schools, with the writers of its infamous anti-Jewish hit pieces asking for more people to
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a one-man cell, according to a post Thursday on his social media account. Navalny was placed in solitary confinement, also called a punishment cell, on Nov. 1 but could only be held there for 15 days, according to the post on his Instagram account. He […]
Reb Shalom Peretz, z’l, a 26-year-old avreich was killed in a traffic accident on Thursday morning in Netivot. The niftar, a father of four, was driving a motorcycle when a
Tehillah was picked up for her date in the evening. She was waiting upstairs while the young man, Shlomo, made small talk with her parents at the dining room table. Her mother had put out an assortment of cookies and brownies that she had taken out of her freezer and Poland Spring water with some […]
Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats. The agreement, struck at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders are discussing how to mitigate […]
Corporate profits have withstood raging inflation over much of the last year, but those good times may be ending. Profits stayed fat even as companies costs rose thanks to one simple trick: Businesses boosted the prices they charged customers by more than their own costs rose. Now, though, more companies are seeing their costs rise […]
Following Donald Trump’s Tuesday night announcement of his 2024 run during which he repeatedly referred to himself as a “victim,” his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went after him,
The discovery this week of violently antisemitic graffiti along a popular Maryland walking trail is just the latest in a rising tide of anti-Jewish vandalism and activity dating back a
The An Echad Jewish cemetery in Waukegan, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti this week. According to local media reports, 16 headstones were spraypainted with swastikas,
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