A New York state trooper fatally shot a driver Saturday during a traffic stop, and authorities said they were looking into what might have precipitated the deadly interaction. The driver
Rabbanim in Haifa are protesting against the outrageous decision of Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli to operate the new Haifa cable car system, the Ravkalit, on Shabbos, despite the fact that
Some airlines have canceled or diverted flights to Ukraine amid warnings from the West that an invasion by Russia is imminent despite intensive weekend talks between Moscow and Washington. In an hourlong call Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden said an invasion of Ukraine would cause “widespread human suffering” and that the […]
A woman who described the Grenfell Tower fire in London as a “Jewish sacrifice” was sentenced to an 11-month jail sentence on Friday. The fire, which broke out in the
Police moved in to clear and arrest the remaining protesters near the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing on Sunday, trying to end a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions that has hurt the
With elections in view and Democrats’ headline domestic bill in a rut, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer have very different takes on how things are going in their chamber. “I know we’re spending the week dealing with assistant secretaries of something or other, and that’s terribly important,” Sanders, the progressive firebrand and Vermont independent, […]
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Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is a fascinating Abarbanel that is found on the verse in Bereishis (2:7). “Hashem formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became – lenefesh chaya – a living soul.” The Abarbanel explains that Hashem created the soul […]
Israelis in Ukraine don’t seem to be panicking about the predicted Russian invasion of the country despite Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s call on Sunday to come home “while you still
The NYPD says it has arrested two teenagers in connection with the shooting of an off-duty police officer in Harlem last week. A 17-year-old has been charged with attempted murder,
The head of an Arab party in Israel who made history last year by joining the governing coalition said Thursday he would not use the word “apartheid” to describe relations between Jews and Arabs within the country. Amnesty International last week joined two other well-known human rights groups in saying that Israel’s policies toward the […]
President Joe Biden had zeroed in on a pair of finalists for his first Supreme Court pick when there were rumors last year that Justice Stephen Breyer would retire. But
Nearly 24 million taxpayers are still awaiting their refund from the IRS for taxes paid last year – a mind-boggling number that portends severe backlogs in this year’s filing season.
When a witness to George Floyd’s killing choked up while testifying during the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson quickly stepped in, granting a defense attorney’s request for a sidebar that defused the moment. It was an example of how the 84-year-old judge has exerted a tight grip on […]
A Jewish mother and her two young children were targeted by an antisemite in Stamford Hill, with the perp now being sought by police. In the latest of a string
A filing from Special Counsel John Durham shows that Hillary Clinton campaign operatives paid a company to infiltrate Trump’s internet servers in Trump Tower and the White House as part
An Upper West Side crossing guard has been removed from her job at West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue after spewing antisemitic slurs at children and their parents. Erica Gerson,
By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but generally they are doing so without the encouragement of major denominations and prominent religious leaders. From the Vatican, Pope Francis has defended the vaccines as “the most reasonable solution to the pandemic.” The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America […]
The U.S. says it will open an embassy in the Solomon Islands, laying out in unusually blunt terms a plan to increase its influence in the South Pacific nation before China becomes “strongly embedded.” The reasoning was explained in a State Department notification to Congress that was obtained by The Associated Press. The plan was […]
Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans. Protesters who gathered outside Kabul’s grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans […]
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