Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday. “This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted […]
The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry to higher […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed that Jews think Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t Jewish. “I have a lot of Jewish friends,” Putin said at an economic forum in Saint Petersburg. “They say that Zelensky is not Jewish, that he is a disgrace to the Jewish people.” “This is not a joke and not […]
Yamam counterterrorism officers and Shin Bet operatives detained a terrorist on the way to carry out a terror attack in Lod on Friday morning. The arrest was made following intelligence
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was ordered Thursday to pay $475,000 by a city ethics board that found he misused public funds on a police security detail during his failed presidential bid. The hefty fine is the largest ever handed out by New York’s Conflicts of Interest Board, capping off a yearslong […]
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to President Joe Biden slamming him for his plans to “reward Iran’s bad behavior” in exchange for “false promises.” “I am disturbed by recent revelations that the Administration has re-engaged in ‘proximity talks’ with the Iranian regime, and that the results […]
A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his exit in an Instagram post. Fox News did not comment […]
In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of “מפעל הש״ס” Heartfelt Cry to Raise the Desire for Gadlus Hatorah (Torah Greatness) Drasha from the Great and Holy Sanz
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yoseph, a Baal Teshuvah who was studying in Kollel, had a somewhat strained relationship with his non-observant father. At a bris for Yoseph’s son, the Mashgiach of the Yeshiva approached his father and said, “I just wanted to let you know that your son has a brilliant mind, and […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation In this week’s Parsha, Shlach, Moshe Rabbeinu agrees to send spies into Eretz Yisrael (Israel) to scout out the land. These spies were the greatest men among the nation, as Rashi points out. And yet, despite being the righteous people that they were, they still returned […]
A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die. The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ own lawyers conceded at the […]
Bayer, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle allegations by New York’s attorney general that its Monsanto unit made false and misleading claims about the safety of the weedkiller Roundup. The sum comes on top of the billions of dollars Bayer has already paid to settle lawsuits claiming Roundup, […]
Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community, down from 48% in 2018 […]
Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday. “This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted […]
A former Florida sheriff’s deputy didn’t follow his extensive training on how to stop an active shooter when he didn’t confront the killer who murdered 17 people at a Parkland high school, a former training commander testified Thursday. Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson had undergone training both in a video simulator and with live […]
Avraham and Chaya Fixsler, the frum British couple who heartbreakingly fought to keep their daughter, Alta hy”d, on life support have now been handed a 50,000-pound ($64,000) legal bill after
President Biden sparked a wave of social media mockery after making remarks that seemed to hint at a grand plan to construct a railroad stretching from the Pacific Ocean “across”
A Baltimore-based Amazon user had his access to the company’s smart home features suspended for a week due to an accusation that his doorbell intercom made a “racist remark” toward
We have all seen and heard about the string of Ponzi’s and dishonest business dealings in the frum community. It’s been published and discussed on YWN, Lakewood Alerts, and now a magazine has placed it on their front cover. But have you wondered why? Why are we getting hit over and again by financial scammers? Did […]
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