About 62% of men and 55% of women in Israel aged 20-62 are overweight or obese, according to a recent report by the National Program for Quality Indicators in Community
Mortuary owner Brian Simmons has been making more trips to homes to pick up bodies to be cremated and embalmed since the pandemic hit. With COVID-19 devastating communities in Missouri,
Police arrived at a Beitar apartment building to do a wellness check last week, after receiving calls that a small group of young children were caught stealing from the local
Rescuers in northern India were working Monday to rescue more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off and sent
New York City’s public middle school buildings will open this month after being closed since COVID-19 cases began to surge in November, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The 62,000 students in grades 6 through 8 whose families have chosen in-person learning — out of a total of 196,000 city students in those grades — […]
Mrs. Raizel Shoshana Ovitz, a’h, an Auschwitz survivor whose photo of her 104th birthday at the Kosel surrounded by 400 of her descendants went viral, passed away at Mayanei HaYeshua
U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the Senate’s fourth most senior member and who chaired four major committees, announced Monday that he will not seek a seventh term in office in 2022. A titan of Alabama politics, the 86-year-old Republican has spent more than 40 years in Washington, serving first in the House and […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Dear Honorable Senator Charles Schumer, I hope this letter finds you well. It discusses a unique opportunity. It is an opportunity to honor the greatest flag the world has ever known. But firstly, on behalf of your brethren, the Jewish people, a “thank you.” Thank you for granting the […]
Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the
Republican John Cox formally opened his campaign for California governor Monday with a TV ad depicting his leading GOP rival as a political twin of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for elections has thrown his political future into peril, forcing him to negotiate competing demands to engage with a friendlier U.S. administration, mend the rift with his terror group Hamas rivals and keep his unruly Fatah movement from breaking apart. The presidential decree issued last month, calling for what would […]
Tesla has invested around $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and said it plans to begin accepting the digital currency as payment for its high-end vehicles soon. The price of Bitcoin soared
French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom — not the European Union, as might be expected for a company on the banks of the Loire. “What a true waste,” bristled Christelle Morancais, president of the Pays […]
Texas Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who had battled health challenges over the past year including lung cancer treatment, has died more than two weeks after contracting COVID-19, his office
South Africa has suspended plans to inoculate its front-line health care workers with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a small clinical trial suggested that it isn’t effective in preventing mild to moderate illness from the variant dominant in the country. South Africa received its first 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine last week and was […]
Facebook recently banned an Israel anti-vaccination group with 14,000 members named, “No to the Green Passport,” following a request by Israel’s Health Ministry. The group’s leaders encouraged members to schedule
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Four backcountry skiers in their 20s died when one of the deadliest avalanches in Utah history hit a popular backcountry skiing area, police said Sunday. Four other people were also buried in the Saturday slide but managed to dig themselves out and didn’t suffer serious injuries, according to Unified Police of Salt Lake County. The […]
When thousands of students are holding precious Gemarahs for the very first time, we know that history is being made. And that’s what is now happening all over Israel in Shuvu schools. Shuvu was founded by Rav Pam ZT”L three decades ago to provide Jewish immigrants in Eretz Yisroel with high quality education. Today, in […]
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced on Monday morning that the US will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost
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