The father of Amr Abu-Assab, 16, an Arab from East Jerusalem who stabbed two Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday, was congratulated by his friends, neighbors and
President Joe Biden is signing an executive order Thursday aimed at limiting turnover for federal service contract workers by offering them right of first refusal when a contract changes hands.
Many Israelis were elated yet astounded upon hearing the news of the release of the Oknins from Turkey overnight Wednesday. Just hours earlier, media reports predicted a long and protracted struggle, especially after Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu publicly said on Tuesday that prosecutors will accuse Oknins of military-political espionage. How was there such a dramatic […]
The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at the 25-year-old Black man. Under cross-examination by the prosecution on his second day of testimony, Travis McMichael said he was “under the impression” that […]
The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its potential COVID-19 treatment if regulators authorize it, the nation’s largest purchase agreement yet for a coronavirus therapy. Pfizer asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to authorize emergency use of the experimental pill, which has been shown to […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Chanukah is fast approaching. Generally speaking, Yeshivos give a few days off on Chanukah. But should they? For a number of years, Rav Gershon Edelstein shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh has been encouraging Yeshivos to give off a few days after Chaukah, but not on Chanukah itself. His […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has embraced “ Let’s go Brandon.” The Republican governor on Thursday picked the small Tampa suburb of Brandon as the site of a bill signing ceremony, trolling President Joe Biden with a reference to what has become a stand-in for swearing at the president. The “Let’s Go Brandon” line — code […]
HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Fischer, z’tl, Rosh Yeshivas Itri, one of the greatest talmidei chachamim and marbitzei haTorah of our generation, passed away on Thursday at the age of 90 at
For nearly 10 years, Monim Haroon has only known one home: Israel. Like thousands of Sudanese migrants, he lives and works without legal status, fearing that a return to his native land would be a death sentence. Israel’s normalization of ties with Sudan, announced last year, had raised fears among the migrants that they would […]
President Joe Biden’s popularity has hit a stunning new low, dropping to a measly 36%, with 53% disapproving of his job performance, in a new Quinnipiac poll. The survey was
The elated Oknin couple addressed the public from their porch in the central Israeli city of Modiin following their release from a Turkish jail overnight Wednesday. The couple landed in
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for the seventh straight week to a pandemic low of 268,000. U.S. jobless claims dipped by 1,000 last week from the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The applications for unemployment aid are a proxy for layoffs, and their steady decline this year — after […]
The International Space Station remains at increased risk from orbiting debris following this week’s Russian weapons test, NASA said Thursday. On Monday, Russia launched a missile to destroy a satellite orbiting just above the space station. NASA said late Wednesday that the highest threat to the station and its seven residents was in the first […]
Electric SUVs generally are among the least reliable vehicles on the road, but it’s not because of the batteries or electric motors that power them. Instead, it’s because of glitch-prone electronics including climate controls and power equipment, the annual auto reliability survey of subscribers by Consumer Reports found. Electric SUVs were the least reliable category […]
A construction worker fell to his death Wednesday while painting on the Manhattan Bridge, police said. The man was painting something on the Manhattan side of the bridge at about 2 p.m. when he fell, a police spokesperson said. He landed on the ground near the FDR Drive in lower Manhattan. Details including the man’s […]
Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a freeze on returning a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy to his relatives there until it decides whether to hear an appeal by family members in Israel. Eitan Biran’s parents and younger sibling were among 14 people killed in May when a cable car […]
A Sefer Torah, originally from Baghdad and believed to be hundreds of years old, was seized by undercover Israel Police officers in an Arab village on Tuesday. The Sefer Torah
Judge Bruce Schroeder has announced Thursday that staff from MSNBC will no longer be allowed inside the Kenosha County Courthouse following the incident in which a person was observed following a bus that the jury uses to get to and from the building. “I have instructed that no one from MSNBC news will be permitted […]
Ever thought about why we say Vihi Noam and Yoshev B’seser after Maariv on Motzaei Shabbos? And why are we meant to eat a meal on מוצאי שבת? Rabbi Mansour
On Sunday, the cabinet is expected to approve the plans of Housing and Construction Minister Ze’ev Elkin to authorize the construction of a new city for the Chareidi population which
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