Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies fell short of winning a parliamentary majority in Israel’s latest election, according to a final vote count released Thursday, leaving a political deadlock that put the long-time leader’s future in question. The fourth election in just two years brought a stinging rebuke for Netanyahu, the most dominant […]
Israel’s Health Ministry is expected to recommend to the political decision-makers that the regulation mandating Israeli’s to wear masks outside of their homes or private vehicles, be repealed after Pesach
Ambitious Republicans are starting to make moves in Iowa, long a proving ground for future presidents. Their first step is finding out whether activists there have gotten over the last one. Former President Donald Trump remains a hulking presence in Iowa, where he won twice by healthy margins. He’s hinted he’ll run again, and his […]
With Pesach only a day away, you might have come across quite a few ads and articles promoting wines for Pesach. I typically write a rather long megillah with detailed comments and
Brazil topped 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, becoming the second country to do so amid a spike in infections that has seen the South American country report record death tolls in recent days. The United States reached the grim milestone on Dec. 14, but has a larger population than Brazil. On Wednesday, Brazil’s health […]
The eruption of a long-dormant volcano in southwestern Iceland has drawn large crowds of visitors eager to get close to the lava flows. Many have trekked to the volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, since it flared to life Friday night after tens of thousands of earthquakes were recorded in the area […]
As Americans slowly return to flying, airlines are dropping some of the changes they made early in the pandemic. Southwest Airlines has gone back to boarding passengers in lots of
Can I take painkillers before or after a COVID-19 vaccine? Don’t take them before a shot to try to prevent symptoms, but if your doctor agrees, it’s OK to use them afterward if needed. The concern about painkillers is that they might curb the very immune system response that a vaccine aims to spur. Vaccines […]
As Pesach draws closer the tempo on the streets of Yerushalayim is picking up as people once again enjoy the sounds and smells of the upcoming Z’man Cheiruseinu. After last year’s challenging re-Pesach preparation when even toiveling and hagalos keilim was so out of reach to so many isolating as instructed, baruch Hashem this year […]
A former CIA employee cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren’t enough Hispanic or Black individuals on the grand jury that indicted him, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty issued his ruling in the case against Joshua Schulte, finding that there was nothing illegal about […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Guess What Didn’t Happen Between 1954 and 1974? Well, if you haven’t guessed it yet, here is another hint: It happens, approximately, once every 9 years. Hint #2. It can occur as frequently as every 3 years and as infrequently as every 20 years. Last Hint: Aside from this […]
President Joe Biden’s dogs — Champ and Major — are roaming the White House again, after having been sent to Delaware when Major, the younger dog, injured a Secret Service agent. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at the Wednesday briefing that the dogs met the Bidens last weekend at Camp David in Maryland […]
The United States and Israel are in talks regarding Israel possibly entering the US Visa Waiver Program. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Gilad Erdan spoke with US Secretary of
The CEO of BetterUp Inc. said Wednesday that he hired Prince Harry as an executive because of his tenacious advocacy for the kind of mental health services that his firm
As we all know well, 2020 has been a terrible year for those struggling, and now 2021 is shaping up to be much of the same. It has been a complete roller coaster ride for yidden the world over. At the Matzoh Fund, we make Pesach for needy Jewish families. We provide all yom tov needs […]
In the desert northeast of Las Vegas, residents living along the Nevada-Arizona border would gather on their front porches for bomb parties or ride horses into the fields to watch as the U.S. government conducted atomic tests during a Cold War-era race to build up the nation’s nuclear arsenal. About 100 of those tests were […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Yes, it is true. Six Hamas terrorist were killed and 7 were foiled because of Matzah and a Teshuvas HaRashba (Volume 7 #20). It happened almost seven years ago, in Kibbutz Sufa at 4:00 AM Thursday morning on July 17th, 2014. Kibbutz Sufa was founded […]
About a year ago, most of the world began a 15 day lockdown, and people were looking for reasons to smile. Then one jolly Friday afternoon, Silly Parsha Questions started
Two men trapped in vehicles hundreds of kilometers (miles) apart have become the first fatalities of record flooding on Australia’s east coast. A car got trapped in floodwater northwest of Sydney at dawn Wednesday and emergency services later recovered it with a body inside, officials said. The body, believed to be that of a 25-year-old […]
President Joe Biden says addressing a nuclearized North Korea is his top foreign policy issue. Biden says at his first news conference as president that North Korea has violated U.N. resolutions by launching ballistic missiles and that the United States and its allies will respond if the North escalates the situation. Biden says: “I’m also […]
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