[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times] There are a number of fascinating halachic debates concerning where Yeshiva students should be lighting their Chanukah menorahs. When dealing
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Israeli spy agency Mossad recruited a covert team of Iranian nuclear scientists to carry out an attack that destroyed one of the ayatollah-led regime’s most secure nuclear facilities. A number
In the first letter of its kind, 17 leading Dati Leumi Rabbanim issued a letter on Wednesday evening calling on the public to protest against the Bennett-Lapid-Leiberman government for its
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana revealed his plan for giyur reform on Wednesday, but according to a Kikar H’Shabbat report, he revealed only a portion of his plan, with the
A fast-moving fire ripped through a Lakewood home on Friday morning. The fire started just before 9:00AM in a residential home on David’s Court, just off Route 70. It quickly
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Be prepared for hundreds of fascinating rulings in halacha from Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita. Reb Shimon Brecher z”l was an extraordinary individual whom Klal Yisroel had lost to COVID at a relatively young age. He passed away in October of last year. Reb Shimon, or Shimi, lived in Lakewood, […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is happening this Motzai Shabbos. We begin saying vesain tal umatar. Generally speaking, Orthodox Jews are completely not affected by actions of the Catholic pope. Regarding vesain tal u’matar, however, one Pope’s actions affected the secular date of when we do things. Read on for clarification. In 1582, […]
New autism numbers released Thursday suggest more U.S. children are being diagnosed with the developmental condition and at younger ages. In an analysis of 2018 data from nearly a dozen
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Thursday morning, four days after world powers resumed talks for a renewed nuclear deal with Iran in
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came under fire Thursday after his wife and children flew abroad just days after the Israeli leader urged citizens to avoid international travel because of
Amid the mass Q&As, keynote sessions, and packed daises, something BIG happened in a small room off to the side of Agudah Convention 2021. On Thursday night, over 50 Bnos
While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in the Midwest and New England. “Omicron is a spark that’s on the horizon. Delta variant is the fire that’s here today,” said […]
Chief Rabbi of South Africa Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, along with other South African Rabbanim, sent a letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett protesting the outrageous incident that occurred last week when frum Jews were forced to be mechallel Shabbos by Israeli airport officials. “We were shocked and dismayed to hear that a group of […]
Historic Supreme Court arguments over abortion behind them, the justices soon will begin the work of crafting a decision that could dramatically limit abortion rights in the United States. They will meet in private before the week ends and take an initial vote on whether to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of […]
The murder case of Nissim Shitrit, z’l, in 1986 has been solved and the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office will file the first two indictments on Friday against Baruch Sharvit, a
The House passed a continuing resolution that would fund the government through Feb. 18, sending the measure on to the Senate, where a shutdown scare awaits. A group of conservative senators continues to threaten objections unless the Senate takes a simple-majority vote on defunding President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on U.S. businesses. If a single […]
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided Thursday to maintain the amount of oil they pump to the world even as the new omicron variant casts a shadow of uncertainty over
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