The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as parts of the Caribbean were gearing up for impacts from Tropical
After a year and a half of COVID-related quiet, we are all ready for something awesome! We can’t wait to get out, dance, and be happy—and the time is now! On Tuesday, August 17th at 7:30 pm, join us at DSN / Casino Beach Club as Yaakov Shwekey lights up the beach in Deal, New […]
An interesting phenomenon has been noticed about Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s recent speeches and media posts about the coronavirus – an avoidance of the word “COVID” replaced by the word
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 3 cents over the past three weeks, to $3.25 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that
Thousands of Northern California homes were threatened Sunday by the nation’s largest wildfire and officials warned the danger of new blazes erupting across the West was high because of unstable weather. Thunderstorms that moved in starting Friday didn’t produce much rain but whipped up winds and generated lightning strikes across the northern Sierra where crews […]
Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining thousands of his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking the country. The Taliban fanned out across the capital, and an official with the militant group said it would soon announce […]
Israel continues to see a continuous rise in COVID cases and seriously ill patients, with 877 coronavirus patients hospitalized and over 524 patients in serious condition on Sunday, the first
As the Taliban mass at the gates of Kabul, they are promising a new era of peace in Afghanistan, with amnesty for those they have been battling for two decades and a return to normal life. But Afghans who remember the Taliban’s brutal rule and those who have lived in areas controlled by the Islamic […]
Arab rioters “protesting” the already-evacuated Evyatar settlement in Shomron lit a wooden Magen Dovid with a swastika inside it on Motzei Shabbos. Arabs holding dozens of torches set the structure
A suburban New York school board called off a meeting this week after attendees angrily bucked being told to wear face masks, according to a news report. The episode — one of a number of clashes over masks and vaccinations that have disrupted school board meetings around the country this summer — happened Thursday night […]
A private bidder is willing to offer up to $120 million to purchase the Miami-area oceanfront property where the collapsed Champlain Towers South building once stood. The offer was revealed
Here’s what 19-year-old Lance Cpl. William Bee felt flying into southern Afghanistan on Christmas Day 2001: purely lucky. The U.S. was hitting back at the al-Qaida plotters who had brought down the World Trade Center, and Bee found himself among the first Marines on the ground. “Excitement,” Bee says these days, of the teenage Bee’s […]
A huge fire broke out in a forest next to the Beit Meir moshav, near Jerusalem, just off the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, on Sunday, causing a huge black cloud to
Hold on to that vaccination card. A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach school, work at a hospital, see a concert or eat inside a restaurant. Following New York City’s lead, New Orleans and San Francisco will impose such […]
Thanks to Rabbi Moshe Don Kestenbaum, thousands have found a way to improve themselves and their lives. In his new book,Olam Ha’avodah, Rabbi Kestenbaum shows us how to strengthen our connection to Hashem. Did you ever wonder what you are doing here? Why did Hashem put you in the exact place where you are? What really […]
Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Sunday and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government, officials said, as Afghans and foreigners alike raced for the exit, signaling the end of
A 13-year-old boy has died after he was struck by lightning at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, police said Friday. Carlos Ramos was one of a group a people gathered
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked part of New York’s moratorium on evictions, put into effect because of the coronavirus pandemic, less than a month before it was supposed to expire anyway. The legal issue is distinct from those surrounding a new moratorium that applies in most of the country that the Centers for Disease […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is called crowd-sourcing, and it is a very effective manner in getting recent history and information. The topic is the Beis Yaakov in Shanghai during the war years. The questions are- what was their post Shanghai history? What did they or do they remember about their Bais Yaakov? […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The news is reporting that there are 304 dead (if not more) in Haiti after it was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake over Shabbos. “The most important thing is to recover as many survivors as possible under the rubble,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said. He added, “We have […]
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