Thousands of people attended Birchas Kohanim at the Kosel on Wednesday, the first day of Chol Hamoed in Israel. The Israeli public is free to visit the Kosel on Sukkos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The head of a match is made of sulfur, glass powder, phosphorus and an oxidizing agent. When the match is struck on Yom Tov two things happen: • The first thing that happens is the friction caused by the glass powder rubbing together produces enough […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times “Hi. Have the Gabbai roll the Torah right after Friday morning Shacharis so it will be ready for Shabbos morning Shacharis.” “Yes, but it’s Yom Tov – isn’t that hachana?” “Ma, Ta, thanks for having us for this afternoon Seudah. Do you think I can […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times After Sukkos is SImchas Torah, where we beging the cycle of Torah reading again. The purpose of this article is to make available, in an easily understood format, the laws of “Shnayim Mikreh VeEchad Targum -Reviewing the Weekly Parsha” in order to spread the observance […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) Yom Tov is soon, and there will soon be discussions happening in the daytime. It can, perhaps, be called the Great “Schnapps vs. Wine” Wars. “Well, my father, and his father, had this minhag from Europe!” “Yes, but the Mishna Brurah, holds that -” “I don’t care what the […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) It is a question every wife asks her husband. “Can I give a piece of cake to little Yankel in the house? It is not raining.” The answer, in the long form, appears below. The pasuk (Vayikra 23:42) states, “You shall dwell in booths seven days; all the citizens […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There are men who know that if they fail to bring home Binah or Mishpacha Magazine for Shabbos or yom tov, well – they may as well not come home. This is particularly true for a long yom tov. This, hopefully, is an exaggeration, but it does give rise to the following halachic question: The Gemara (Beitzah 15b) tells us […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Reb Yechiel Benzion (“Benny”) Fishoff Z”L, noted philanthropist & askan of klal yisroel. He was 97. Reb Benzion was the Chairman
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
Written by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Leibel Rand shlita heads an outstanding Kollel in the heart if the Far Rockaway/Five Towns Community, called “Kolle Avreichim.” This Kollel has produced remarkable products including: Founders of a world-class Mesivta Program – Shaarei Chaim (which just launched its own Beis Medrash program – with Talmidim coming […]
Dental work for seniors on Medicare. An end to sky’s-the-limit pricing on prescription drugs. New options for long-term care at home. Coverage for low-income people locked out of Medicaid by ideological battles. Those are just some of the changes to health care that Democrats want to achieve with President Joe Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The Gemorah in Shabbos 133b tells us that the pasuk of zeh keili v’anvehu teaches us to perform Mitzvos in a beautiful way. It seems that this is, in fact, an obligation. But is this a Torah obligation? Or is it a Rabbinic one? It seems that there is […]
A New York City man is facing charges he kicked a woman down an escalator at a Brooklyn subway station in an ugly incident captured on security video. Bradley Hill,
Hoping to stop the flow of migrants, the United States on Sunday tried to block the Mexican border at an isolated Texas town where thousands of Haitian refugees have set
New details have emerged about a brawl outside a popular New York City restaurant between several out-of-town visitors and an employee over the restaurant’s requirement that the guests show proof of vaccination. Attorneys for Carmine’s and for three women from Texas who are facing charges in connection with the melee last Thursday told the New […]
Last year, a yeshivah bochur from a known Litvish yeshivah in Bnei Brak was forced to daven b’yechidus on Yom Kippur due to exposure to COVID, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The
The FBI said two explosive devices recently found outside cellphone stores in northern Michigan are believed to be linked to letters found last month in the Upper Peninsula. The bombs,
President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights
Afghanistan’s last Jew, Zebulon Simentov, who was evacuated from Afghanistan earlier this month, signed a get for his wife in New York on Erev Yom Kippur. Moti Kahana, an Israeli-American
French President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in their first contact since a major diplomatic crisis erupted between France and the United States
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