The Virtual Halacha Program is a new initiative for those that want to learn Halacha B’Iyun – an opportunity to learn Halacha and live Halacha from anywhere in the world.
Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but its not because people are leaving. Its just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural. That matters […]
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday responded with outrage to his Russian counterpart’s claim on Sunday that Hitler “had Jewish blood” and that “some of the worst antisemites are Jews.” “Foreign Minister Lavrovs remarks are both an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error,” Lapid stated. “Jews did not murder themselves […]
Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, succeeded at least temporarily in delaying the certification of Joe Bidens election to the White House. Hours before, Rep. Jim Jordan had been trying to achieve the same thing. Texting with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a close […]
Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the companys first-ever U.S. union are headed for a rematch Monday, when a federal labor board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in yet another election on Staten Island. A second labor win could give workers in other Amazon facilities and at other companies […]
New York City has raised its Covid-19 alert level to “yellow,” the medium level, as positive Covid cases continue rising across the five boroughs. The city’s Health Department said New
The White House press corps annual gala returned Saturday night along with the roasting of Washington, the journalists who cover it and the man at the helm: President Joe Biden. The White House Correspondents Association dinner, sidelined by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, featured Biden as the first president in six years to accept […]
Harrison Jozefowicz quit his job as a Chicago police officer and headed overseas soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. An Army veteran, he said he couldnt help but join American volunteers seeking to help Ukrainians in their fight. Jozefowicz now heads a group called Task Force Yankee, which he said has placed more than 190 volunteers […]
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday he is weighing a presidential run in 2024 and his decision wont be affected by whether former President Donald Trump decides to join the race. Hutchinson, a two-term Republican governor who is restricted under Arkansas law from seeking a third term, said it was time for the national GOP […]
Germany says its making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and expects to be fully independent of Russian crude oil imports by late summer. Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck said Sunday that Europes largest economy has reduced the share of Russian energy imports to 12% for oil, 8% for coal and 35% […]
A woman was rescued Sunday from the rubble of a building in central China more than 50 hours after it collapsed, leaving dozens trapped or missing, state media said. Separately,
On the morning of December 22, the Jewish community of San Jose, California awoke to the horrific scene of their newly renovated Chabad Center consumed by flames, the fire was
Amid swirling rumors about the apparently ailing health of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian opposition media outlet General SVR claims that Putin will go out of sight soon as he
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein, a world famous inspirational and motivational speaker and educator. He was approximately 64-years-old. As was reported recently on
In a stunning attempt to justify Russia’s claims that they are working to eradicate Nazis from Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is with great sadness that we inform the olam of the passing of Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein zt”l, the founder of Ohr Naava, and a remarkable mechanech. This remarkable person had brought back hundreds, if not thousands, of members of Klal Yisroel back to a life of Torah uMitzvos. […]
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.
Spectators stood pointing and screaming in the Geulah neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, as a massive fire tore through an apartment building. Though some stayed back in case of the building’s
The US House of Representatives last week passed the Stop Iranian Drones Act which was sponsored by Republican Reps. Michael McCaul and Joe Wilson and Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks and
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds President Joe Biden’s overall approval up slightly, but suffering from brutal marks on a number of issues important to Americans, particularly the economy.
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