A total of 6,005 Ukrainian citizens who are not entitled to Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return entered Israel from the start of the war in Ukraine until Monday
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a halachic discussion that took place between Dayan Yitchok Weiss zt”l and Rav Yaakov Schechter z”l the Av Bais Din of Belfast, Ireland in the 1950’s. Rav Schechter did eventually move to Eretz Yisroel. He lived in Shaarei Chessed, at Rechov Mordechai Narkis. The discussion is found […]
Gunfire and burning vehicles in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo led U.S. officials to close the U.S. consulate there and briefly shut down close border crossings Monday. The
Veteran Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski has died after his vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Horenka, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and his push to upend the broader security order in Europe may lead to a historic shift in American thinking about defense of the continent. Depending on how far Putin goes, this could mean a buildup of U.S. military power in Europe not seen since the Cold War. […]
In a tragic incident, Reb Alon Cohen, zt’l, was killed in a car accident near Rishon L’Tzion on Monday afternoon. The niftar, in his 50s, was a member of the
Leon Scharzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and a lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died. He was 101. Schwarzbaum died early Monday in Potsdam near Berlin, the International Auschwitz Committee reported on its website. No cause of death was given. “It is with great sadness, […]
President Joe Biden on Monday held his first in-person fundraiser since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, marking a return to a traditional form of politics that many Democrats eschewed
A Russian tycoon whose name arose prominently in the illegal political contribution case against two associates of Rudy Giuliani was secretly charged with conspiracy last year in a New York
Purim is fast approaching! Please, hear the cry of your brothers and sisters in Israel and send financial help! The money raised will be distributed on Purim Day, making this a
Britain’s top court on Monday refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges. The court said it refused because the case “didn’t raise an arguable point of law.” Assange, 50, has sought for years to avoid a trial in the U.S. on […]
A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early
Israel decimated hundreds of drones in an airstrike at an airbase near the western Iranian city of Kermanshah in mid-February, Haaretz reported on Tuesday. The alleged attack was reported for
Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv on Tuesday, with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighborhood as the leaders of three European Union countries planned a bold visit to Ukraine’s embattled capital in a show of support. Shortly before dawn, large explosions thundered across Kyiv from what Ukrainian authorities said […]
Light snow began to fall in Jerusalem and in some areas of the Shomron and the north overnight Monday and early Tuesday morning. Schools were canceled in some areas of
China’s new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. The National Health Commission said 3,507 new locally spread cases had been identified in the latest 24-hour period, up from 1,337 a day earlier. A fast-spreading variant […]
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will launch one of the most difficult tasks a central bank can attempt: Raise borrowing costs enough to slow growth and tame high inflation, but
Rav Menachem Mendel Cohen, the Chabad shliach in Mariupol who currently is on the Moldovan-Romanian border but is in touch with Jews in Mariupol, spoke to Israel’s Radio 103FM on Sunday night. “The city hasn’t yet been conquered, there are battles on the streets,” he said. “From the reports I received today, there are entire areas […]
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is considering a rough timeline for a potential presidential announcement. And allies of Rep.
U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries. NASA insists Vande Hei’s homecoming plans at the end of the month remain unchanged, even as […]
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