Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers on Thursday, after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to “hardcore” work or resign with severance pay. Some took to Twitter to announce they were signing off after Musk’s deadline to make the pledge. A number of employees took to a private forum […]
The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January. The Justice Department is fighting to keep Biden’s plan […]
The Biden administration declared Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, a turnaround from Joe Biden’s passionate campaign trail denunciations of Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slaying. The administration said the senior position of the crown prince, […]
A new study carried out by Hebrew University revealed that the Philip Morris tobacco company published a far higher percentage of ads in the Chareidi sector than other minority populations
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Do you know “Why BJJers only Date guys From Ponovezh?” BJJ, or Beis Jaakov Jerusalem, is considered one of the leading seminaries in Eretz Yisroel. Also known as Machon Sarah Schneirer, it is located in the Unsdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem. BJJ was launched in the early 1970’s as a […]
U.S. home births increased slightly in the pandemic’s second year, rising to the highest level in decades, according to a government report published Thursday. Among almost 4 million births in 2021, nearly 52,000 occurred at home, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed. That’s up about 12% from 2020, following a 22% rise […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation In this week’s Parsha, Ephron tells Avraham Avinu, “…I have given you the field, and the cave that is in it… Before the eyes of my people, I have given it to you; bury your dead.” (Bereishis 23:11) The words “Before the eyes of my people” […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the S’fas Tamim Foundation QUESTION: My wife often asks me to do chores that involve a lot of manual labor. I am not really up
Move over, Dan’s Deals, we’ve got a new player. Dave Portnoy, the Jewish founder of Barstool Sports, found on a recent trip to a convenience store that he has a
The Orthodox Jew-obsessed New York Times hasn’t had its fill of attacks against religious Jewish schools, with the writers of its infamous anti-Jewish hit pieces asking for more people to
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a one-man cell, according to a post Thursday on his social media account. Navalny was placed in solitary confinement, also called a “punishment cell,” on Nov. 1 but could only be held there for 15 days, according to the post on his Instagram account. He […]
Reb Shalom Peretz, z’l, a 26-year-old avreich was killed in a traffic accident on Thursday morning in Netivot. The niftar, a father of four, was driving a motorcycle when a
Tehillah was picked up for her date in the evening. She was waiting upstairs while the young man, Shlomo, made small talk with her parents at the dining room table. Her mother had put out an assortment of cookies and brownies that she had taken out of her freezer and Poland Spring water with some […]
Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River — a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats. The agreement, struck at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders are discussing how to mitigate […]
Corporate profits have withstood raging inflation over much of the last year, but those good times may be ending. Profits stayed fat even as companies’ costs rose thanks to one simple trick: Businesses boosted the prices they charged customers by more than their own costs rose. Now, though, more companies are seeing their costs rise […]
Following Donald Trump’s Tuesday night announcement of his 2024 run during which he repeatedly referred to himself as a “victim,” his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went after him,
The discovery this week of violently antisemitic graffiti along a popular Maryland walking trail is just the latest in a rising tide of anti-Jewish vandalism and activity dating back a
The An Echad Jewish cemetery in Waukegan, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti this week. According to local media reports, 16 headstones were spraypainted with swastikas,
Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year. The walkouts coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Workers say it’s […]
Over 500 entry permits were revoked from relatives of the terrorist who committed the murderous attack near Ariel on Tuesday. A statement from the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities
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