A year ago in the middle of the night, a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside, Florida, came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives — one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history. The disaster at Champlain Towers South also turned into the largest emergency response […]
The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine has added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and inequality to produce an “unprecedented global hunger crisis” already affecting […]
Longtime community askan Pinny Ringel has received the backing of all major Chassidic sects and school administrators in Borough Park in the race for District Leader of the 48th Assembly District in Tuesday’s primary. “At a time when the Orthodox community finds itself under constant attacks, and as we foster our positive relationships with government […]
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. Agudath Israel of America welcomes this historic development. Agudath Israel has long been on record as opposing Roe v. Wade’s legalization of abortion on demand. Informed by the teaching of Jewish law that […]
An aftershock took more lives Friday and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week. Among the dead from Wednesday’s magnitude 6 quake are 121 children, but that figure is expected to climb, said Mohamed Ayoya, UNICEF’s […]
A year ago in the middle of the night, a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside, Florida, came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives — one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history. The disaster at Champlain Towers South also turned into the largest emergency response […]
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of […]
A bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unimaginable a month ago is on the verge of winning final congressional approval, a vote that will produce lawmakers’ most sweeping answer in decades to brutal mass shootings that have come to shock yet not surprise Americans. The House was set to vote on the $13 billion package […]
Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached,
As someone observing the shidduchim “market” that seemingly becomes increasingly challenging as boys and girls become older, I would like to offer a straightforward suggestion. I know of one Rosh Hayeshiva that suggested this to his talmid, and I know others who have followed this suggestion and are today B”H married because of it, so […]
From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public. Under the law
Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud claims, striving in vain to enlist top law enforcement officials in his desperate bid to stay in power
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There are times when we can be inspired by observing examples of absolute integrity and honesty. Then there are times when we can be
El Al Airlines announced on Thursday that it is canceling its routes from Israel to the cities of Toronto, Brussels, and Warsaw by the end of October. According to the
Dear brothers and sisters, My name is Rochi and with Hashem’s help I will be getting married very soon! My happiness is not complete because I have no way to
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Hossein Taeb, who was the head of the intelligence unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was dismissed from his position, the IRGC confirmed on Thursday. Israel identified Taeb last
A senior US official hinted on Wednesday that more Arab countries are interested in improving ties with Israel during President Joe Biden’s visit to the region next month, AFP reported.
Report after report in recent days described extremely frightening encounters Israeli tourists experienced in Istanbul, following multiple warnings by Israeli security organizations about Iranian cells seeking to kidnap and murder Israelis. But it seems as if Turkish Jews and many Israeli tourists are living their lives as usual on the street of Istanbul, JTA reported. Chabad Rav, […]
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