By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Pesach vacation is almost here for some high school girls, and has already started for others. During the school year, most Girls’ high schools generally have davening take place in school itself. In the pre-COVID days many of them had it in a large auditorium, but in COVID times […]
A 21-year-old man who suffered a medical emergency during firefighter training in upstate New York died nine days after being stricken. Peyton Morse died Friday afternoon at Guthrie Hospital in
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In next Erev Shabbos’s Daf HaYomi (Psachim 118a) and in the Hallel HaGadol of the Haggadah, we can present a very nice interpretation of HaGaon HaRav Avrohom Trop. It is on the idea that the parnassa of a person are as difficult as Krias Yam Suf – the splitting […]
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is being called racist for an interview in which the white Republican said he wasn’t worried about the predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump during the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, but that he might have been if they had been Black Lives Matter protesters. In an interview Thursday with […]
President Joe Biden has directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely U.S. surplus of doses later this year while much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages. Even before Wednesday’s order, the U.S. was to have enough approved vaccine delivered […]
A terrifying situation was quickly brought to an end thanks to fast-acting Boro Park Shomrim volunteers. The dramatic incident unfolded just minutes to Shabbos, when a known-car thief jumped into
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The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial. Council members met privately to discuss the settlement, then returned to public session for a unanimous vote […]
Pamela Puchalski still remembers how frightening it felt when the coronavirus upended life in her New York City neighborhood last March. With terrifying swiftness came the first infections, the first
Los Angeles emergency room nurse Sandra Younan spent the last year juggling long hours as she watched many patients struggle with the coronavirus and some die. Then there were the
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has urged New Yorkers to “wait for the facts.” Patience, though, has grown thin. The state’s two U.S. senators, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and most of the 27 other members of New York’s congressional delegation have called for his resignation. In the state legislature, more than 120 […]
Police believe a 37-year-old New York City woman fatally shot in the head on a city street was accidentally caught in a crossfire. Gudelia Vallinas was shot on a street
The U.S. effort in World War II was off the charts. Battles spread over three continents and four years, 16 million served in uniform and the government shoved levers of
Security forces in Myanmar on Saturday again met protests against last month’s military takeover with lethal force, killing at least seven people by shooting live ammunition at demonstrators. Four deaths were reported in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city, two in Pyay, a town in south-central Myanmar, and one in Twante, a suburb of Yangon, Myanmar’s […]
Sri Lanka on Saturday announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security. Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara said he signed a paper on Friday seeking the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers to ban burqas — outer garments […]
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Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy told reporters on Thursday that he estimates that Israel will begin vaccinating children 12 and over around May-June. Levy said his estimate is based on the clinical trials currently being carried out which he hopes “will be over around the end of spring, beginning of summer.” Levy added that the […]
In an interview with Channel 12 News, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was asked why he chose Israel as a case study for Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines and he responded that he was “impressed with the obsession of your prime minister.” “Of course, I was talking with several heads of state,” Bourla said. “I spoke to your prime […]
The NBA has fined Meyers Leonard $50,000, the maximum allowed by league policy, and suspended him from using all Miami Heat facilities and activities for one week in response to his use of an anti-Semitic term. Commissioner Adam Silver, in announcing those sanctions Thursday, also said that he believes Leonard “is genuinely remorseful” for using […]
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