By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There is nothing quite like lifting the burden of someone who is facing challenges with no apparent resources. Whether that person be young or
Dear fellow Jew! My name is Deborah Hazan. Mortified and humiliated, I turn to you with a broken heart because I have no choice. It seems like a lifetime ago
The Knesset on Wednesday approved legislation allowing the Health Ministry to share the personal information of non-vaccinated Israelis with local authorities. The third and final reading of the law was
COVID-19 has destroyed so many people’s livelihoods. The lockdowns in Israel and the inability to work, to earn, to do anything, has completely decimated the poor and the not-so-poor in
Yaakov Atias was only 42 years old when he passed away, after fighting Covid for 3 weeks! He left behind a young widow and 3 young daughters ages 6-14! CLICK
February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors’ offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports
Pfizer announced Thursday that it has begun studying a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, part of a strategy to guard against mutated versions of the coronavirus. Health authorities say
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is eerie. It is also what can be called an “Emunah Builder.” One could perhaps suggest that it is coincidence, but the combination
This money will be given out in Flatbush & Lakewood on Purim morning to dozens of poor families. Believe it or not, there are families that do not have money
This year, more than ever before, with the current difficult matzav for acheinu b’nei yisroel in general and B’nei Torah in particular, there is just so much negativity worldwide. We
Join Zichru, the revolutionary memory program for Daf Yomi, for Arvei Pesachim and remember all 23 blatt in 23 days! Imagine going into your seder and Yom Tov with the
Bahrain’s crown prince spoke with the Israeli prime minister on Thursday about the return to nuclear talks with Iran, Bahrain’s state-run news agency reported, as the U.S. administration tries to
Hundreds of Israelis participated in a mass Purim party at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, a day ahead of the government-imposed three-day curfew over Purim in
Dear Friend, I know it’s been a long year. A year of tension and uncertainty, of school closures and lockdowns. But here in Yerushalayim, the situation is even
This photo was taken on Purim night at the home of the Gadol HaDor, Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, as he heard Megilas Esther.
Facebook, following in Google’s footsteps, says it plans to invest $1 billion to “support the news industry” over the next three years. The social networking giant, which has been tussling
By: Rabbi Abe Friedman Law Enforcement Liaison/Community Activist No, not a good idea at all, not for the person behind the bars, nor for his family, and neither for those
On Sunday morning, the Claims Conference initiated a new project in partnership with United Hatzalah that will orchestrate a national operation with the goal of making sure that all 11,000
In the outer Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, there has long been a debate about whether the neighborhood is halachicly part of Jerusalem, with Purim celebrated on the 15th, on Shushan
10K Batay Yisroel is a project rooted in a horrific accident and the reaction of two ordinary– yet extraordinary– families who transcended that tragedy and transformed it into an incredible
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