The United States on Monday signed on to a UN Security Council statement expressing “dismay” over Jewish settlements being built in Yehuda and the Shomron. “The Security Council reiterates that

The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. It’s an unlikely role for the Food and Drug Administration, a sprawling, century-old bureaucracy that for decades directed most its communications toward doctors and corporations. But FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf has spent […]

Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka HaGaon HaRav Dov Landua wrote a letter on Monday in which he called to daven for the refuah sheleimah of his fellow Rosh Yeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Moshe

This morning, the New York Times published yet another lengthy, prejudicial article against Orthodox Jews, this time targeting Kiryas Joel, a village which “is almost entirely populated by Hasidic Jews.” The Times focuses its harsh spotlight on certain legitimate, school-related payments made by the Kiryas Joel school district to the United Talmudical Academy (U.T.A.) of […]

A delegation of U.S. lawmakers met with the head of Taiwan’s legislature on Monday as part of a five-day visit to the self-ruled island that comes as U.S.-China relations remain tense after weeks of trading accusations over a spy balloon. The delegation that arrived Sunday includes Reps. Ro Khanna of California, Tony Gonzales of Texas, […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Tuesday for the first time advanced a plan to overhaul the country’s legal system, with the Knesset approving of the plan in the first of three readings. The 63-47 vote after midnight gave initial approval to a plan that would give Netanyahu’s coalition more power over who becomes a […]

Last year, one of my family’s credit cards was used to rack up hundreds of dollars in bogus charges at Apple.com. Another card was compromised four times in a row, as thieves repeatedly charged merchandise and Uber rides. We ultimately got our money back, but repeated credit card fraud can be frustrating and disheartening. Dealing […]

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A large number of Israel Police forces are securing the streets of Jerusalem and other cities on Monday as widescale protests take place against the advancement of the government’s judicial

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for  5tjt.com It is one of those dilemmas that tens of thousands of Torah-observant families have grappled with for decades.  Many have posed the question to Rav Chaim zatzal.  And now, a remarkable Talmid Chochom, Rabbi Shnayor Zalman Burton, has provided us with the resources to the dilemma with the publication […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday called for Sweden and Finland to be accepted into NATO “as quickly as possible,” although his Turkish counterpart dismissed the possibility of any link between their accession and Turkey’s request for F-16 fighter jets. Turkey has delayed the Nordic countries admission to the trans-Atlantic defense alliance, citing […]

Nikki Haley is swinging through Iowa this week fresh off announcing her presidential campaign. Her fellow South Carolinian Republican, Sen. Tim Scott, will also be here as he decides his

Israeli singer star Akiva, will be heading to Florida this Chol Amoed Pesach to join Jewish music legendary superstar Yaakov Shwekey for a joint performance. Together with them, an entire

The Kiryas Joel School District ripped into reporting from the New York Times on Monday, in which the outlet wrote up a hit piece spinning the town’s school officials as

Nearly one year after Russia invaded Ukraine, new questions are rising over China’s potential willingness to offer military aid to Moscow in the increasingly drawn-out conflict. In an interview that aired Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said American intelligence suggests China is considering providing arms and ammunition to Russia, an involvement in the […]

As the Knesset held a debate on Monday evening prior to voting on the first laws of the judicial reform, a protestor who disturbed the proceedings was forcibly removed by

The Paley family’s world crashed down around them in a moment several days ago. Five-year-old Ya’akov and seven-year-old Oshi (Osher) were murdered in a horrific terror attack in Yerushalayim. Their

The Biden administration has averted a potential diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements at the United Nations that had threatened to overshadow U.S. efforts for the world body to focus on Russia’s war with Ukraine ahead of this week’s one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. Multiple diplomats familiar with the situation said Sunday that the U.S. […]

Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis and exiled Chief Rabbi of Moscow, has responded to a chilling message in a Russian Telegram group called, “Disclosed”. The group has almost 23,000 subscribers. The message called, among other things, for consideration of the proscription of Chabad as an “undesirable” organization in Russia […]

A “people’s court” put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial Monday for the crime of aggression over his invasion of Ukraine, in a symbolic move to close an “accountability gap” in the absence of an international tribunal with jurisdiction. The court has no legal powers but prosecutors said they will present evidence that Putin committed […]

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