There has been a surge of coronavirus cases in recent days in Chareidi cities, possibly due to the opening of the school year on Rosh Chodesh Elul. All Chareidi cities

Should I be concerned about my child’s weight? Can the mood swings I’m experiencing be considered postpartum depression? Is getting the COVID-19 vaccine the right choice for my family? When

Hurricane Grace swept onto Mexico’s Gulf coast as a major Category 3 storm and moved inland Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days. At least eight people died, authorities said. The storm had lost power while crossing over the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday, swirling through Mexico’s […]

For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal. The photos and videos pouring out of Afghanistan hit a nerve, and triggered searingly vivid flashbacks to battles fought, troops lost and tears shed during their own deployments there. And in a response shaped by their memories and experiences in the war, they […]

A federal appeals court on Friday said a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus can remain in place for now, setting up a battle before the nation’s highest court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by Alabama and Georgia […]

The mayor of the Florida city of Orlando asked residents on Friday to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars immediately, saying water usage needed to be cut back because of the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The Orlando Utility Commission treats the city’s water with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily go toward […]

President Joe Biden is facing a summer slump, with Americans taking a notably less positive view of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his job approval rating ticking down. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 54% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, down slightly from […]

Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid fears that another round of high winds on Saturday will bring renewed fury to a Northern California wildfire. “We have a firefight ahead of us and the wind today is going to make it very challenging,” said Keith Wade, a spokesman with the California Department […]

President Joe Biden made up his mind about Afghanistan months — really years — ago. For more than a decade, Biden advocated for an end to American involvement in Afghanistan. But he did so as something of an outsider, a senator whose ultimate power came in the form of a single vote on Capitol Hill […]

New Englanders bracing for their first hurricane in 30 years began hauling boats out of the water and taking other precautions Friday as Tropical Storm Henri barreled toward the Northeast

Henri intensified to a hurricane Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, threatening potentially deadly storm surges for Long Island, which is at risk of a direct hit from

Hundreds of Gazan Arabs rioted on Shabbos afternoon near the Gazan border, in a resumption of the weekly “night confusion” riots organized by Hamas in 2018-2019. The riot took place

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir was hospitalized on Friday night in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem due to the coronavirus. Ben-Gvir tested positive for COVID last week and was

Dear Parents, Alumni, and the Denver Community: Our Yeshiva Toras Chaim community continues to be profoundly and deeply pained by the unspeakable events that transpired this past Tuesday evening, claiming

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President, Agudath Israel of America I joined Agudath Israel of America in 1984, 37 years ago. Then, and through the years, the Agudah has

The reward in the search for the fifth suspect still on the run in the crime spree earlier this week in which one person was hurt and Shmuel Silverberg Z”L

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Next week many young ladies will be flying to Eretz Yisroel for seminary.  Today, then, is probably the last day that something very important must be done. All of the banks, it seems, charge a significant amount of money for every transaction that is made in Israel.  All of […]

The fight over redrawing political maps is just ramping up in state legislatures and nonpartisan commissions around the country. But both Republicans and Democrats already are planning for major showdowns

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited the Arab-Israeli town of Taibe on Thursday to encourage the Arab sector to increase its low vaccination rates. Sharp-eyed social media users who saw the

The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group said Thursday that an Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon “within hours,” warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it. The delivery organized by Lebanon-based Hezbollah, would be an apparent violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran after former U.S. President Donald Trump pulled […]

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