The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to shut down the work of an independent arbiter who was appointed last month to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. The appeal is the latest salvo in weeks of litigation over the scope of duties of […]
A man driving a moped was tragically killed in a crash in Flatbush, Friday afternoon. Highly credible sources tell YWN that the moped was traveling north on East 17 and
The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure — and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation. Concerns have grown in recent weeks over periodic power cuts to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that have increased the risk of a meltdown. And threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, it wasn’t clear what kind of leader he would be. His low-key persona during a steady rise through the ranks of the long-ruling Communist Party gave no hint that he would evolve into one of modern China’s most dominant leaders, or that he would put the economically […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com YH: First off, thank you for the interview, I realize that it is getting close to Shabbos in Yerushalayim. Our topic is the 4 biggest problems in shidduchim. What would you say is the biggest problem in dating today? HT: After working in the realm of shidduchim for decades, […]
Stanford University apologized for limiting the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s after a task force commissioned by the school found records that show university officials excluded Jewish students
As Russia bombarded Ukraine this week, military observers were left wondering about how many and what types of missiles Russia still has in its arsenal. In other words, how long
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he thinks a mobilization of army reservists he ordered last month to bolster his country’s troops in Ukraine will to be completed in two weeks. Putin told reporters after attending a summit in Kazakhstan on Friday that 222,000 of the 300,000 reservists the Russian Defense Ministry said would get called […]
Newly released video footage played by the January 6th committee hearing on Thursday shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying she’d attack Trump if he came to Capitol. Speaking to supporters
The shooter who killed five people along a walking trail in North Carolina’s capital city is a 15-year-old boy who has been hospitalized in critical condition, police said Friday. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson told reporters that the suspect opened fire Thursday on a greenway in an area northeast of downtown. He then eluded officers […]
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has appointed former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt as new Treasury chief, replacing sacked Kwasi Kwarteng. Hunt is a government veteran who has served as former
What keeps driving inflation so high? The answer, it seems, is nearly everything. Supply chain snarls and parts shortages inflated the cost of factory goods when the economy rocketed out of the pandemic recession two years ago. Then it was a surge in consumer spending fueled by federal stimulus checks. Then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Israel’s elite Airborne Combat Rescue And Evacuation Unit 669 evacuated an elderly American woman from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean early Thursday morning. The 70-year-old woman, who had suffered
World-famous mentalist Lior Suchard and Jewish music star Avraham Fried and Mordechai Shapiro wowed a sold-out crowd of 3,000 people in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center (ICC) last night (Thursday). The annual concert held by United Hatzalah, which took after a 2-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was attended by a number of celebrities including […]
Israel’s Cabinet approved the controversial maritime deal on Wednesday evening as well as Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s plan to bring the deal to the Knesset for a review but not
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Before we get into the question – let us note that tonight, the third night of Chol HaMo’ed is the Vilna Gaon’s yartzeit. This The latest rage in some of the “non-lower-scale” homes in our communities is to make indoor Sukkos in the house itself. These Sukkos use skylights […]
North Korea early Friday launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea, further raising animosities triggered by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests. The North Korean moves suggest it would keep up a provocative run of weapons tests designed to bolster its nuclear capability […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate. The justices did not otherwise comment in turning away Trump’s emergency appeal. Trump had pressed the court on an issue relating to classified documents seized in the search authorized by […]
As Russia bombarded Ukraine this week, military observers were left wondering about how many and what types of missiles Russia still has in its arsenal. In other words, how long
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