President Joe Bidens upbeat message that the economy is cruising along hit a troublesome speed bump on Thursday when the federal government reported that U.S. gross domestic product shrank during the first three months of 2022. Economic activity declined at annual rate of 1.4%, a sharp reversal from last year when growth was the strongest […]
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and likely soon-to-be owner of Twitter, weighed on President Joe Biden’s formation of a “disinformation governance board” whose mission it is to fight online
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com This week, thousands of people are mourning the loss of Dr. Susan Katz ah, founder of Shulamith High School in Flatbush and a woman who had a profound effect on thousands of students for over five decades in Chinuch. Dr. Katz was a beloved teacher in HILI academy in […]
The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and faces threats from high inflation and rising interest rates, yet economists foresee a return to growth for the rest of 2022 based on the strength of the job market and consumer spending. The 1.4% quarterly decline in gross domestic product the […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday claimed that Israel, which withdrew its membership from the UN cultural agency UNESCO in 2017 due to its anti-Israel bias, supports the US return to the organization, AFPreported. We believe that having the waiver authority would be important and necessary and I can say with authority that […]
A former U.S. Marine who signed up to fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was killed on Monday, his family says. Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was hired by a private
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s family received a second death threat and a bullet, this time threatening the prime minister’s oldest son Yoni, 17, Channel 12 Newsreported on Thursday. The envelope was sent to Bennett’s home in Ra’anana. According to the report, the first letter, which also contained death threats and a bullet, was sent to […]
California and 15 states that want the U.S. Postal Service to electrify its mail delivery vehicles are suing to halt purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks as the agency modernizes
Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. The blasts
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The loss of Rav Chaim Kanievsky zatzal is still felt by many – both in Eretz Yisroel as well as in the United States. Below are six questions and answers in Hilchos Brachos that can help mitigate the feeling of loss. Generally speaking the ruling of the Mishna Brurah […]
For the past months, a family in Eretz Yisroel has been battling serious illnesses of two of their children, going in and out of the hospital on a constant basis.
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is called question #4, and it is well known that the Chofetz Chaim could easily have answered Yes to this question. And now you have the opportunity to answer this question as well by watching Roy Neuberger in action. The questions are found in Meseches Shabbos page […]
A bomb scare occurred at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Thursday after a traveler brought a rocket shell to security. A family had visited Ramat HaGolan during their
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As Fire and Rescue Services worked to extinguish the massive blaze that broke out on the top floor of an apartment building in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, frantic efforts
Circle Time: At Your Shabbos Table is a weekly parshah sheet download brought to you by The Circle.Here is this week’s parshah sheet, along with a printer-friendly version. For the colored parshah
If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his control. The most obvious immediate change would likely be Twitters stock being taken off the New York Stock Exchange. But the company would also likely get freed from having to give regular updates about its business to […]
Renewal, saving lives Yossi is distraught. The news was devastating. He struggled to hold the phone in his trembling hands. And thus begin the questions. But, How? Im in the best shape of my life!? I feel fine! But he wasnt fine. Not by a long shot. Yossi, a loving […]
Russias relentless digital assaults on Ukraine may have caused less damage than many anticipated. But most of its hacking is focused on a different goal that gets less attention but has chilling potential consequences: data collection. Ukrainian agencies breached on the eve of the Feb. 24 invasion include the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees […]
As Israel’s annual nationwide Yom Hashoah siren blared in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, a Holocaust survivor was serving as sandak at his great-grandson’s bris
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