Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett vows to be a justice “fearless of criticism” as the split Senate charges ahead with confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s pick to cement a conservative court majority before Election Day. Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, draws on faith and family in her prepared opening remarks for the […]
The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to rise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, as authorities heightened their focus on banning mass gatherings in COVID-19 hot spots. Cuomo announced that 826 people were hospitalized with the virus — the highest number since July 15. State officials said eight New Yorkers died of […]
Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus. England’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said the […]
Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden goes bigger. The Democratic nominee portrays 2020 as an entanglement of social, economic, political, environmental and public health crises as threatening to America’s stability as the Civil War and the Great Depression. Biden points […]
The White House doctor said that President Donald Trump was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it.
A significant number of French nurses responding to a poll say they are tired and fed up, with 37% saying that the coronavirus pandemic is making them want to change
Mayor Bill de Blasio asked federal immigration authorities Friday to ban its officers from portraying themselves as local police, saying such practices drive victims and witnesses of crime “into the shadows and create fear.” The mayor pointed to a series of reports the city has received of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers calling themselves […]
City officials announced on Friday the closing of two aging jail facilities, part of a broader plan to shutter the notorious Rikers Island complex by 2026 and replace it with four smaller jails intended to be more modern and humane. The Manhattan Detention Complex, nicknamed “The Tombs,” and the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was ready to return to the campaign trail despite unanswered questions about his health on the eve of a Florida rally meant to
Joe Biden is set to make his first general election campaign visit Monday to Ohio, signaling the former vice president’s hopes of winning the state Democrats lost by a significant margin in the 2016 election. The Biden campaign said the former vice president plans an afternoon campaign speech in Toledo, then will head to Cincinnati […]
Iran announced on Sunday its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 251 confirmed dead, the same day local media reported two senior officials had been infected and the nation’s currency plunged to its lowest level ever. Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari said the total confirmed death toll now stands at 28,544, making […]
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 887 coronavirus cases on Sunday in the previous 24 hours, with tests reflecting a 7.3% positivity rate, the lowest since the beginning of September. There are
Hagaon HaRav Yisrael Landua, the Rosh Yeshiva of Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem, sharply censured those who disregard health regulations and engage in confrontations with the police in a sicha he
About 3,100 Israeli families – about 10,000 people – were evacuated from their homes on erev Simchas Torah in the wake of numerous wildfires caused by an intense heatwave in
“We’ve been through so many things, terror attacks, travesties, but we’ve never seen anything like this,” a Chevra Kadisha member told Channel 13 News. “It never happened before that the
To our dear friends, We hope you had a wonderful Yom Tov and wish you success in the upcoming year. Tonight/today Monday, is the Yahrtzeit of the holy Ribnitzer Rebbe zt”l. His
Today, a federal judge refused to issue a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of Governor Cuomo’s executive order which restricts religious worship in various parts of the State of New York. Earlier this week, in an effort to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the governor promulgated an executive order severely restricting the use of […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) In light of the significant uptick in COVID-19 cases, four of Lakewoods Poskim issued a Kol Koreh as to how people should act exactly
Heshy Tischler announced on social media that he has been informed that he will be arrested on Monday morning after Simchas Torah. “I just got a call from the precinct,”
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Some people do it. Some people, specifically, avoid doing it. The issue under discussion is placing the used up Aravos on top of the Aron Kodesh after davening on Hoshana Rabbah. What is the reason for this Minhag? There are apparently two reasons that are brought down for the […]
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