Following reports of alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria overnight Tuesday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz made a rare statement hinting that Israel was behind the strike. “I’m not going into who fired what last night,” Gantz said on Kan News on Wednesday morning. “We won’t allow terrorist operatives from Hezbollah or Iran to establish themselves on […]
Less than four years into his 10-year term, FBI Director Christopher Wray’s future in the job is decidedly uncertain heading into the presidential election. Oddly, he may be more likely to stay in office if the president who appointed him loses than if he wins. President Donald Trump has been escalating his rhetoric against Wray, […]
Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, his culpability in national discord and his overall fitness for the job on Wednesday as he made his first in-person campaign pitch for his former vice president, Joe Biden. With less than two weeks before Election Day, Obama used a drive-in campaign rally […]
For thousands of older Israelis like Sara Weinstein, being housebound alone during the country’s second nationwide lockdown is difficult and depressing. “Loneliness brings back the past, and it’s hard,” said Weinstein, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in the central Israeli town of Yavne. But each week ahead of the Jewish Sabbath, which starts on […]
Yehuda Laib Chain was born to his holy parents who came up to Eretz Yisrael from Yemen. CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOWThey were Tzadikim and were very close to the
The Sephardic Community in Flatbush is holding a plasma drive today, organized by Flatbush Hatzolah and Mount Sinai Hospital. If you had COVID and have recovered you can help save
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com About a week President Trump was spotted with two Band Aids on the back of his hand – during a time that he was telling everyone that he was medication-free. This prompted the media to begin major speculation as to what drugs he was taking – since this is […]
A public-interest foundation is testing a smartphone app that could make it easier for international airline passengers to securely show they’ve complied with COVID-19 testing requirements. It’s an attempt to help get people back to flying after the pandemic sent global air travel down by 92%. The Switzerland-based Commons Project Foundation was conducting a test […]
The head of an Islamic pro-Hamas group and the father of a student incited the grisly murder of a French teacher who was beheaded last week in a Paris suburb
Police were investigating a possible hate crime in Kensington, Wednesday night. Sources tell YWN that shots were reportedly fired at the Lev Avraham Shul, located on 18th Avenue and East
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Who could have ever imagined that the challenges of handling a very cruel modern day executive order by the governor of New York State – were addressed over 120 years ago – by the greatest of modern Talmudists – Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of the town of Brisk? THE […]
Hagaon HaRav Yehoshua Heschel Brim, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Bohush Chassidus Yeshiva was Niftar on Wednesday in Laniado hospital in Netanya due to complications from COVID-19. He was 84.
On Tuesday, the head of the Yamina party, Naftali Bennett spoke about the incitement against the Chareidi community for opening their schools this week in accordance with the instructions of
If Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump next month, he’ll quickly face a new challenge: standing up a new administration to lead a divided nation through a series of historic crises. After making Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic a centerpiece of his campaign, Biden will have to show that his team can better handle […]
A midwife who works at Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak was Niftar on Wednesday after she contracted COVID-19. Family members of the deceased claim that she contracted the virus
The Swiss health minister said coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations were doubling every week, warning of the prospect of overburdened hospitals as Switzerland has gone from one of the least-affected
The ruling Fatah party in the Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, slammed the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for its peace deal with Israel. Fatah warned the residents of east Jerusalem of benefitting from “Emirati money dipped in Palestinian blood,” perhaps referring to the UAE’s plans to invest in projects in Jerusalem. In […]
Mixed Greens Cafe, a Kosher restaurant in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, was one of the hundreds of businesses in the “Red Zone” visited by inspectors this week. But Mixed
Greece’s government says it has finalized plans to build a wall along its northeast border with Turkey, over concerns that migrants may try to stage mass crossings into the European Union country. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said Monday that 26 kilometers (16 miles) of wall would be added to an existing 10-kilometer (six-mile) section of […]
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