The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default is in the offing — with frictions between President Joe Biden and House Republicans raising alarms about whether the U.S. can sidestep a potential economic crisis. The Treasury Department projects that the federal government will on Thursday reach its legal borrowing capacity of $38.381 trillion, an artificially […]
A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member
This letter is to shed some much-needed clarity on the Shidduch crisis and some of the solutions that are being worked on. Let’s start with the facts: For every boy
Israel Police thwarted a terror attack on Wednesday after arresting two illegal Palestinian infiltrators armed with a knife in the central Israeli city of Netanya. The police, acting on intelligence
Former President Donald Trump is gearing up for a return to two major social media platforms – Twitter and Facebook – with a team of advisers already working on crafting
Israel’s U.N. ambassador accused the Palestinians on Wednesday of stabbing a knife into any chance for reconciliation by seeking an advisory opinion from the U.N.’s highest court on Israel’s decades-old West Bank presence — and the Palestinian U.N. envoy accused Israel’s new government of seeking to crush its people. The always contentious monthly U.N. Security […]
The United States and Turkey on Wednesday looked to brush aside differences that have strained relations for years but were unable to report progress in resolving disagreements over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and NATO expansion that have soured ties between the allies. At a meeting in Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting Turkish […]
The Capitol riot was the culmination of weeks of preparation and a moment of triumph for the Oath Keepers, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday in closing argument in the second
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday she is stepping down as New Zealand’s leader and will not contest this year’s general elections. Fighting back tears, Ardern told reporters in Napier that Feb. 7 will be her last day in office. “I am not leaving because it was hard. Had that been the case I probably […]
Three kedoshei elyon had one common concept when it came to learning Torah – they were the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar 1696-1743) when he came to Eretz Yisroel; the
Sales for the holiday 2022 season slowed more than expected from its blistering pace a year ago as higher borrowing costs and higher inflation made shoppers pull back, according to the nation’s largest retail trade group. The National Retail Federation said Wednesday that holiday sales for the combined November and December period rose 5.3% to […]
Elon Musk was depicted Wednesday as either a liar who callously jeopardized the savings of “regular people” or a well-intentioned visionary as attorneys delivered opening statements at a trial focused on a Tesla buyout that never happened. Lawyers on opposing sides drew the starkly different portraits of Musk for a nine-person jury that will hear […]
A neon Twitter bird for $35,000, anyone? How about a used industrial kitchen mixer for a good price? Going once …. When Elon Musk wants to make a point, it can be pretty blunt. On the day he took over Twitter last fall, he walked in to the San Francisco company’s headquarters carrying a sink. […]
If the presidential election were held today, the victor would be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a new poll shows, and follows another recent poll which found that DeSantis would defeat
Donald Trump is trying on a new line of defense for size: he now says that he didn’t actually take classified documents to Mar-a-Lago; rather, he only took folders that had classified markings but didn’t actually contain any classified documents. “The Fake News Media & Crooked Democrats (That’s been proven!) keep saying I had a […]
The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for International Development plans to use the money to procure backup power for Kyiv’s water […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The pasuk in Mishei (14:1) tells us, “Chochmas nashim bansa Baisa – it is the wisdom of women that builds her house.” Perhaps no one personified this concept more than Rebbitzen Dvorah Esther Spiegel a”h, of Cedarhurst, New York. Today marks the shloshim of a remarkable Rebbitzen who served […]
If you’re a black man living in San Francisco, your life could soon get a whole lot easier. The city’s reparations committee is proposing to pay each longtime black resident
A “little-known stockpile” of American ammunition in Israel is being used by the Pentagon to supply Ukraine with artillery shells for its battle against Russia, The New York Times reported
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