President Joe Biden on Saturday commemorated the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter, visiting their graves at the Saint Joseph on the

A powerful typhoon left at least 31 people dead, knocked down power and communications in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction mostly in the central Philippines, officials said Saturday. A governor said her island has been “leveled to the ground.” Typhoon Rai blew away Friday night into the South China Sea after rampaging through southern […]

Israel Security forces early on Sunday, arrested two Palestinian men suspected of carrying out last weeks deadly attack that killed Yehudah Dimentman HY”D near Homesh. Pursuant to operational and intelligence

Amudim was founded on the simple yet vital belief: No individual should have to face a crisis without a rock of support. Because when crisis hits, loneliness can sometimes feel

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com What happens when the doctor says that a sick person must eat something forbidden?  Does he recite a bracha or not? Many of us are familiar with the verse in Tehillin (10:3) “Botzea beireich ni’aitz Hashem — A thief who blesses blasphemes Hashem.” The Gemorah uses this verse to […]

The Beis Medrash Govoha for Medical Halacha invites you to a special evening of medical halacha in New York: “Spiritual Growth While Working in Medicine” tomorrow, December 19th. Exclusive presentations

Tens of millions of workers across the U.S. are in limbo as federal courts have issued different rulings related to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for larger private companies, certain health care workers and federal government contractors. A federal appeals court panel has allowed a vaccine requirement for employers with 100 or more workers, […]

Keith, a champion windsurfer, comes to Israel to race in an international windsurfing competition. After a near-fatal, yet life-transforming accident, he decides to turn his life around. But a dark

The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 89 countries, and COVID-19 cases involving the variant are doubling every 1.5 to 3 days in places with community transmission and not just infections acquired abroad, the World Health Organization said Saturday. Omicron’s “substantial growth advantage” over the delta variant means it is likely to […]

School systems nationwide rely on high-level expertise from the U.S. Secret Service and others as they work to stay vigilant for signs of potential student violence, training staff, surveilling social media and urging others to tip them off. When it comes to how to respond to a possible threat, however, it’s the local educators who […]

A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead, reversing a previous decision on a requirement that could affect some 84 million U.S workers. The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati overrules a decision […]

An Israeli man was stabbed and lightly injured by a female terrorist near Me’aras Hamachepeila in Chevron on Shabbos morning at about 10:45 a.m. The victim, a 35-year-old resident of

Soaring COVID-19 case numbers, long testing lines and event cancellations might feel a bit like déjŕ vu, but so far New York City hospitals aren’t seeing a repeat of the surges that swamped emergency rooms early in the pandemic. The state reported Friday that just over 21,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday […]

Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu and 131 others entered quarantine on Friday after four Knesset employees tested positive for COVID. Three out of the four Knesset employees are suspected of carrying

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The Senate confirmed more than 30 ambassadors and other Biden administration nominees early Saturday after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to schedule a vote on sanctions on the company behind

Nations across Europe moved to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible omicron variant, including a new nationwide lockdown introduced by

A man in his late 30s was lightly injured in a stabbing attack that took place on Shabbos morning at the Ma’arat HaMachpela in Hevron. Magen David Adom ambulance teams

The National Defense Authorization Act, passed in Congress earlier this week, will provide Israel with $200 million in funding for its critical missile defense programs. The sprawling, nearly $800 billion

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