While the world is glued to the game, we’re glued to our gemara. Tackling a Tosfos. Wrestling with a Rashba. While the world is captivated by the roars of the
Parler, the social media platform that was forced offline by Amazon following the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, could be up and running again early next week,
A Quebec Superior Court judge has agreed in part with the Hasidic Jewish Council of Quebec�s request to allow more than 10 people inside a synagogue to take part in communal prayer. In a decision delivered on Friday, Justice Chantal Masse decided the provincial government�s order that a maximum of 10 people be allowed inside […]
Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. fell behind in the race to detect dangerous coronavirus mutations. And it�s only now beginning to catch up. The problem has not been a shortage of technology or expertise. Rather, scientists say, it�s an absence of national leadership and […]
Two weeks into Donald Trump�s post-presidency, it feels like he hasn�t really gone away. He�s stayed in the news, defying the tradition of former presidents abruptly falling off the radar upon their successor�s inauguration and despite the shutdown of his favored means of communication on Twitter. That makes sense, given that no other former president […]
A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she�d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic move but none defended her lengthy history […]
With Democrats in charge of Congress and the White House, progressive lawmakers including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are pushing the Biden administration to act ever more aggressively
With 22 inches of snow walloping Monsey during this week�s two day Nor�easter, it was a memorable week for Chaverim of Rockland which recorded 2,158 snow related calls. Chaverim coordinator Yossi Margaretten described his agency�s call volume as record breaking, with his team of approximately 120 volunteers rescuing stranded motorists, taking women to the hospital […]
A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump � Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell � for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped �steal� the U.S. presidential election. The 285-page complaint filed Thursday in […]
The Charedi parties of Shas and UTJ submitted their official party lists for the 24th Knesset on Thursday, and for the first time in a long time, both parties made
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Yitzchok Scheiner zt�l � late Sunday morning, January 31st. Rav Dovid Soloveitchik zt�l � early Sunday morning, January 31st. Rav Dovid Feinstein zt�l � November 20th. Within 72 days of each other, three outstanding Roshei Yeshivah, remarkable Torah giants, have been taken from Klal Yisroel. One cannot but […]
A prominent Jewish organization is cutting ties with a longtime Massachusetts rabbi for actively promoting anti-vaccine views and strident opposition to public health efforts to rein in the coronavirus pandemic.
Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators Thursday to clear the world�s first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, an easier-to-use option that could boost scarce supplies. J&J�s vaccine was safe and offered strong protection against moderate to severe COVID-19, according to preliminary results from a massive international study. It didn�t appear quite as strong as two-dose competitors made […]
Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple
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High-ranking officials in the Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that they have reached an agreement with Cyprus allowing citizens who have received 2 vaccines and have a “green passport” to
“Pregnant women should fear the coronavirus rather than vaccines,” Dr. Rachel Picar, a specialist in obstetrics and senior doctor in Hadassah Ein Kerem, told Kikar H’Shabbos. Dr. Picar added that
Former President Donald Trump said he will resign from the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists after the group threatened to revoke his membership. Mr
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