What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands with lush vegetation and stunning coastlines some 7,200 miles from where he once served as New York City’s mayor. Bloomberg’s lone primary victory in American Samoa, population 55,000, was […]
Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her “plan for everything” and strong message of economic populism, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday. Her exit came days after the onetime front-runner couldn’t win a single Super Tuesday state, not even her own. For much of the past year, her campaign had all the […]
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The Corona Virus is a very serious issue, and it is something that should not joked about. There are people whose very lives are in the balance. Creating and forwarding false information that causes people to worry, whether knowingly or unwittingly, is a Torah prohibition of “Lo Sonu ish […]
Airline giant Lufthansa said Thursday it was cancelling all flights to Israel until March 28, after the Jewish state barred entry to almost all non-resident arrivals from five European nations
Çhief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday criticized as “inappropriate” and “dangerous” comments that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer made outside the Supreme Court earlier in the day about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Roberts was responding to Schumer’s remarks at a rally outside the court while a high-profile abortion case was being argued inside. […]
Bernard Madoff should not be released early from prison even if kidney disease kills him within months, prosecutors said Wednesday as they cited the scope and magnitude of his decades-long
An American Jewish woman from New York City who visited Israel from February 23 -27 was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Wednesday night, Israel’s Health Ministry stated. The woman, in her 50s, stayed in Jerusalem and was at many local cafés, restaurants, stores and a bank and traveled on local buses and the Jerusalem-Ben Gurion […]
A group of about 150 Jews recently made an exceedingly rare visit to the kever of the Amora Rav Ashi that lies literally on the perilous Israeli-Lebanese border. As the
A man suspected of opening fire on a New York City police van and a police station last month, wounding an officer and a lieutenant, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attempted murder charges. Robert Williams’ arraignment drew dozens of police officers and union leaders to a Bronx courthouse in solidarity with the victims of the […]
Hagaon Harav Mordechai Gross recently paskened that Ashdod now has the status of being a walled city (b’safeik) and the megillah should be read both on Yud Daled and Tes
United Airlines will reduce flights, freeze hiring and ask employees to volunteer for unpaid leave as the airline struggles with weak demand for travel because of the new virus outbreak. United said Wednesday that starting in April it will reduce passenger-carrying capacity 20% on international routes and 10% in the U.S. — the first airline […]
The Democratic-controlled House passed an $8.3 billion measure Wednesday to battle the coronavirus outbreak that’s spreading rapidly and threatening a major shock to the economy and disruptions to everyday life in the U.S. The swift and sweeping bipartisan vote was a relative rarity in a polarized Washington and came just nine days after the president […]
“We are very careful about the kashrus of food products, but the kashrus of Mikvahs — which involves aveiros punishable by kareis! — gets pushed to the back of our
Jeff Sessions, making new strides to regain his former Senate seat, faced renewed criticism from Donald Trump that could be his biggest hurdle after the president appeared to mock his former attorney general for being forced into a primary runoff. Trump broke his silence on Sessions’ race in Alabama, again lashing out at his former […]
Purim is one of the holiest days of the year, and customs vary from region to region, and family to family. The mitzvos, however, remain a constant. It is fascinating
The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points, or 4.5%, Wednesday as governments and central banks around the globe took more aggressive measures to fight the virus outbreak and its effects on the economy. The gains more than recouped the market’s big losses from a day earlier as Wall Street’s wild, virus-fueled swings […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced five more positive cases of coronavirus in New York, bringing the total in the state to 11. Ten of those 11 cases stem from the same
A name has been added to the 11-year-old child that fell from a second story balcony in Lakewood on Tuesday night. Sadly, the incident occured in middle of celebrating his
The Bnos Yisroel Girls School in Baltimore is taking precautions on Wednesday afternoon, following a possible coronavirus contact. The school sent out the following SECOND email to the parent body
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