By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The world owes a debt of gratitude to Rabbi Shmuel Honigwachs of Lakewood, NJ for bringing to light over 200 rulings from HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Miller shlita in a new sefer entitled, “HaElef l’Shlomo.” Rav Miller, a talmid of Rav Aharon Kotler, is recognized as the leading Posaik in […]
An Israeli Jew who was in Vietnam for business purposes contracted the coronavirus a little over a week ago and quickly deteriorated, passing away on Shabbos at the age of
About 500 Israeli children aged 5-11 received their first coronavirus vaccine dose over the past two weeks, Yisrael Hayom reported on Monday. No significant side effects have been reported and
Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors. Tropical Storm Fred grew stronger before hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, and Tropical Storm Henri formed around Bermuda. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said […]
Israeli leaders on Monday appealed to its international allies as firefighters battled wildfires near Jerusalem for a second day after the blaze forced hundreds of residents from their homes. Israel
Hyatt Hotels will buy resort-management company Apple Leisure Group from two private equity firms for $2.7 billion. Apple Leisure manages about 100 resorts with more than 33,000 rooms in 10 countries. The acquisition will double Hyatt’s presence in the resort business, the company said. Travel has surged this year with the arrival of vaccines for […]
The famed Metzuda Winery, located in Givat Ye’arim, one of the communities evacuated during the massive fire outside Jerusalem that began on Sunday, went up in flames and was completely
At V’zakeini, we daven for miracles. We hope for miracle babies born to couples who are struggling with infertility. This week, we celebrate not one, not two, but three miracle
The Biden administration removed information about the Palestinian Authority’s incitement to terror from a mandatory compliance report submitted to Congress in July, a move that may have been illegal according
The Jewish community in Perm in western Russia is in mourning after the petira of Reb Baruch Kavnovasky, z’l, from complications of the coronavirus at the age of 50. Reb
A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is expected to rule this week on whether a moratorium against evictions imposed by the Centers
Poland’s government said Monday that its ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland until further notice after Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Warsaw and strongly criticized a new Polish law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime. Meanwhile, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki defended the […]
President Joe Biden’s administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food aid available to needy families — the largest single increase in the program’s history. Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will rise more than 25 […]
Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh LaZeh. Every Jew is responsible for every other Jew. And there is a very special couple living in Israel who need your help! They need you to open your heart and help with their dire predicament. Please help answer the call and rescue the family of our dear friend R. Moshe Ben […]
A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders. The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on the run to avoid extradition […]
Thousands of homes in Northern California remain threatened by the nation’s largest wildfire as unstable weather creates a high danger of new blazes erupting across the West. Weekend thunderstorms across the northern Sierra didn’t produce much rain, instead whipping up winds and unleashing lightning strikes that that bedeviled the more than 6,000 firefighters trying to […]
Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul’s main airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto a military jet as it took off and plunged to their deaths. At least seven people died in the chaos, U.S. officials said, as America’s longest war ended with its enemy the victor. The crowds […]
Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this quake-ravaged coastal town, where 15 bodies had already been extracted. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel owner, was killed in the quake, believed there were more people trapped in the rubble. But based on the size of voids […]
President Biden addressed the nation Monday, saying he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan after having a presence for 20 years, while admitting that the
This magnificent cup was crafted by the artist who created the iconic golden Menorah that stands near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Its impressive weight is most symbolic, and the
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