More than 800,000 noncitizens and Dreamers in New York City will have access to the ballot box and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically become law Sunday. Opponents have vowed to challenge the new law, which the City Council approved a […]
The Philadelphia Yeshiva has just sent out an alert asking everyone to Daven and learn for a Zechus for Rebbitzen Temi Kamenetsky, the wife of Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky, the
Purchase tickets now at: www.atimeformusic.liveTonight, experience the next next stage of Jewish Music from the comfort of your home. Camp HASC’s milestone concert will be headlined by a star-studded lineup of
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April while collecting cans in East Harlem has died of his injuries, and his case is now deemed a homicide, police said
President Joe Biden faces a steep path to achieve his ambitious goal of slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, amid legislative gridlock that has stalled a $2 trillion package of social and environmental initiatives. Bidens Build Back Better plan, which contains $550 billion in spending and tax credits aimed at promoting clean […]
States and localities in November paid out the largest amount of rental assistance to cash-strapped tenants since a federal program began, the Treasury Department said in a statement Friday. The $2.9 billion paid out is the latest sign that the programs early hiccups have been mostly been resolved and it is now turning to helping […]
We are all familiar with the fundraising telethon, whereby a group of volunteers gather to make phone calls to raise funds for an organization’s crowdfunding campaign. The Chesed Fund regularly
At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted,
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com HaGaon Rav Moshe Shternbuch’s gabbai reached out to this author and forwarded the following Teshuvah from Rav Shternbuch shlita. Rav Shternbuch is the Raavad
New NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said she is “concerned” over new policies being implemented by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that will essentially allow criminals to run amok without any
Cambodias foreign minister on Saturday defended Prime Minister Hun Sens trip to Myanmar, the first by a foreign leader since the military takeover last year plunged the country into turmoil, though there was little evidence the mission yielded any immediate breakthrough. Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn told reporters that talks between Hun Sen and Myanmars leader […]
Over 90,000 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in New York on Saturday, smashing through the state’s previous single-day record, set on New Year’s Day, which was 5,000+ plus less than
Kazakhstans health ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week. The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies. It is not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if law-enforcement deaths are included. […]
Egyptian-Palestinian human rights activist Ramy Shaath arrived in Paris and reunited with his wife on Saturday, after Egyptian authorities released him from prison and deported him. An overjoyed Shaath, the son of a prominent Palestinian politician, walked out of the Charles de Gaulle airport smiling, holding hands with his wife, Cline Lebrun Shaath, a French […]
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein has tested positive for COVID, an announcement from the elderly Rosh Yeshivah’s household stated on Sunday morning. The Rosh Yeshivah, 98, was tested for COVID after
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Recently, the JTA reported that a judge in Brazil fined American Airlines $1,759 for not providing kosher meals for two passengers who were told that they would receive it on long-distance flights. The picture of the roll in the kosher meal used by one of the websites had a […]
Soviet Union, 1946 – How do you set up a Jewish school in a country where teaching Judaism is illegal and offenders are sent to the Gulag? Is any location
Baltimore County schools will close Monday and Tuesday to give educators time to create lesson plans for students in the event that individual schools move to virtual instruction during a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and staff vacancies, administrators announced Friday. The Baltimore Sun reports that after reaching an agreement with the school systems five […]
President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But
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