By Rabbi W. Wolfe Wernick Presented By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com **Please note: This author is looking to make a video about the Mir Yeshiva in Poland and is looking for sponsors – if anyone is interested, please email yairhoffman2@gmail.com*** In a dark and barely furnished boarding place of the Yeshiva students, over a […]
The head of U.S. intelligence says fighting in Russia’s war in Ukraine is running at a “reduced tempo” and suggests Ukrainian forces could have brighter prospects in coming months. Avril Haines alluded to past allegations by some that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advisers could be shielding him from bad news — for Russia — about […]
NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who has been a long time friend of the Jewish community was promoted to Chief of Department by Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell on Saturday December 3,
It’s now a lot easier — and cheaper — for many hard-of-hearing Americans to get help. Hearing aids can now be sold without a prescription from a specialist. Over-the-counter, or OTC, hearing aids started hitting the market in October at prices that can be thousands of dollars lower than prescription hearing aids. About 30 million […]
The head of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, HaGaon HaRav Shimon Badani, who has been hospitalized in serious condition in the ICU for two weeks, woke up and is responding to
The U.S. is at a pivotal point with China and will need military strength to ensure that American values, not Beijing’s, set global norms in the 21st century, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday. Austin’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum capped a week in which the Pentagon was squarely focused on China’s rise […]
An Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that Iran’s government is “paying attention to the people’s real demands”, state media reported, a day after a top official suggested that the country’s morality police whose conduct helped trigger months of protests has been shut down. The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny […]
Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said. Three others received lengthy prison sentences. IRNA said the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard announced the arrests of a network of people linked to the Israeli agency. It said the members had previous criminal records and […]
A car crash north of New York City that killed an on-duty police sergeant was caused by a 16-year-old driver who lost control of a sports car only two weeks after getting his learner’s permit, police said. Yonkers Sgt. Frank Gualdino, a 24-year veteran of the force, was driving an unmarked police car Thursday when […]
FBI Director Chris Wray is raising national security concerns about TikTok, warning Friday that control of the popular video sharing app is in the hands of a Chinese government “that doesn’t share our values.” Wray said the FBI was concerned that the Chinese had the ability to control the app’s recommendation algorithm, “which allows them […]
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The Hy-Vee Hall ballroom in Des Moines erupted in cheers in 2008 when the youthful Illinois senator hinted at the improbable possibility of the feat ahead: “Our time for change has come!” That Iowa, an overwhelmingly white state, would propel Barack Obama’s rise to become America’s first Black president seemed to ratify its first-in-the-nation position […]
New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Mary Bassett said in a statement Friday that she was “leaving now so the next commissioner can have the chance to lead this great department for a full 4-year […]
Incoming Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that Donald Trump was “wrong” for meeting with antisemites at his Mar-a-Lago estate and will not endorse
A terrifying scene played out in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Friday, when a coyote grabbed a 2-year-old Jewish girl and attempted to run off with her. The girl’s father, Ariel Eliyahuo, was nearby when the coyote attacked and immediately sprang into action upon hearing his daughter’s cries. “I heard her screaming […]
The Israeli Air Force attacked a number of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip overnight Motzei Shabbos in response to the rocket launched into Israel earlier in the evening. A
Natan Sharansky, a famous refusenik, made a comment at the beginning of the war in Ukraine that resonated with millions around the world ‘’Growing up, having ‘Jew’ stamped on your
Israel Police arrested two Arab residents of the Old City of Jerusalem for allegedly humiliating a Chareidi man and then posting a video of it on Tiktok. In the video,
America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber made its debut Friday after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. As evening […]
It’s been over 250 days since the disappearance of Moishe Kleinerman, and for the first time in six months, the police did not request an extension of the gag order
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