At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted,
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com HaGaon Rav Moshe Shternbuch’s gabbai reached out to this author and forwarded the following Teshuvah from Rav Shternbuch shlita. Rav Shternbuch is the Raavad
New NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said she is “concerned” over new policies being implemented by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that will essentially allow criminals to run amok without any
Cambodia’s foreign minister on Saturday defended Prime Minister Hun Sen’s trip to Myanmar, the first by a foreign leader since the military takeover last year plunged the country into turmoil, though there was little evidence the mission yielded any immediate breakthrough. Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn told reporters that talks between Hun Sen and Myanmar’s leader […]
Over 90,000 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in New York on Saturday, smashing through the state’s previous single-day record, set on New Year’s Day, which was 5,000+ plus less than
Kazakhstan’s health ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week. The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies. It is not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if law-enforcement deaths are included. […]
Egyptian-Palestinian human rights activist Ramy Shaath arrived in Paris and reunited with his wife on Saturday, after Egyptian authorities released him from prison and deported him. An overjoyed Shaath, the son of a prominent Palestinian politician, walked out of the Charles de Gaulle airport smiling, holding hands with his wife, Céline Lebrun Shaath, a French […]
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein has tested positive for COVID, an announcement from the elderly Rosh Yeshivah’s household stated on Sunday morning. The Rosh Yeshivah, 98, was tested for COVID after
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Recently, the JTA reported that a judge in Brazil fined American Airlines $1,759 for not providing kosher meals for two passengers who were told that they would receive it on long-distance flights. The picture of the roll in the kosher meal used by one of the websites had a […]
Soviet Union, 1946 – How do you set up a Jewish school in a country where teaching Judaism is illegal and offenders are sent to the Gulag? Is any location
Baltimore County schools will close Monday and Tuesday to give educators time to create lesson plans for students in the event that individual schools move to virtual instruction during a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and staff vacancies, administrators announced Friday. The Baltimore Sun reports that after reaching an agreement with the school system’s five […]
President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. But
Ambulances in Kansas speed toward hospitals then suddenly change direction because hospitals are full. Employee shortages in New York City cause delays in trash and subway services and diminish the
(By Rabbi Moshe Hauer) The Chaim Walder saga that has unfolded over the past weeks has created upheaval across the Jewish world, as it must. Walder was one of those profoundly sick people who built trust in order to exploit it in manipulative and destructive ways, shattering an entire community’s sense of trust. There has […]
The number of serious cases of hospitalized Covid-19 patients rose from 143 on Friday to 172 on Shabbos in Israel. Overall, the Health Ministry registered more than 31,000 positive cases
A frum yid, Yehuda Topper, made history last week by becoming the first-ever Orthodox Jew in Florida after being sworn-in as a police officer on the North Miami Beach Police
An Israeli resident of Kazakhstan was shot to death on Friday evening in the violent protests in the Central Asian country. Levan Kogeashvili, z’l, 22, and his parents moved to
Russia’s decision to send paratroopers into Kazakhstan, where a crackdown on violent anti-government protests has left dozens dead, injects additional uncertainty into upcoming talks over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The question is whether the unrest in Kazakhstan has changed the calculations of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he weighs his options in Ukraine. […]
Intelligence reports compiled by the U.S. Capitol Police in the days before last year’s insurrection envisioned only an improbable or remote risk of violence, even as other assessments warned that crowds of potentially tens of thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators could converge in Washington to create a dangerous situation. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, […]
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