The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday, five months after Guzmans […]
ICE Agents were in the Five Towns, Wednesday morning. They were seen in front of 733 West Broadway (between Cedarhurst and Woodmere) at around 8:00AM. It is unknown if anyone was arrested. The raids are part of President Trumps announced plan to serve papers on an estimated 2,000 families living in the country illegally. The […]
A row of power poles fell down in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens Wednesday morning. The fallen poles have left power lines strewn across the intersection at Kissena Boulevard and 73rd
Daf Yomi will be celebrating the Siyum of Eruchin this coming Shabbos. “The SONG OF ERUCHIN” reviews the highlights and main points of Eruchin, recapping the key klallim of the Mesechta –
The Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem has undergone badly needed renovations, which began at the beginning of the year, and they are about to come to an end. A visit
Another member of a police force has admitted to stealing money during illegal traffic stops and shakedowns and then falsifying reports. Paterson Officer Frank Toledo faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to violate individuals civil rights, using unreasonable and excessive force, and filing a false police report. Toledo […]
Israel police have launched an investigation after seeing a video on social media of a driver on Jerusalem’s Begin Highway, as he backed up to exit while endangering many motorists by his actions. Police have learned the driver is an 83-year-old man, a Jerusalem resident, who they have summoned for questioning. (YWN Israel Desk […]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is struggling to raise big money in a key election year after a blackface scandal nearly ended his political career. But hes also managed to remain a major source of campaign cash for Democrats, including those who have previously called on him to resign. New campaign finance reports filed Monday show […]
Following the Central Election Committee’s decision not to hold mixed courses for Election Day poll watchers, the women’s lobby sent a harshly worded letter to the committee demanding a cancelation
Golan Telecom, one of the cellular providers in Israel, is seriously considering blocking the so-called ‘nayis’ new lines that have become so popular in the chareidi community in Israel. According
John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Courts leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99. During nearly 35 years on the court, Stevens stood for the freedom and dignity of individuals, be they students or immigrants or prisoners. He […]
A Jewish association says some private donors to Polands renowned Jewish history museum have suspended funding out of concerns about the governments failure to renew the term of its director. A special commission in May approved Dariusz Stola for another five-year term, but Culture Minister Piotr Glinski hasnt yet officially reappointed him. Glinski said recently […]
This past week has been a very difficult week for the Bauman family, the Norfolk community, and all of Klal Yisrael. Rabbi Reuven Bauman and his family moved
New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimers disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimers Association International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered evidence that the disease may spread differently in the brains of women […]
A Kentucky man who went to the doctor with an irritated eye got the unsavory news that it contained a tick. WYMT-TV reports an optometrist used tweezers to remove the tick from Chris Praters eye. Prater works for an electric company and had left a job site where his crew had removed a tree from […]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 has rattled parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. There are no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck Tuesday afternoon 9
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden joked that he would challenge President Donald Trump to do push-ups on stage if Trump mocked Biden’s age during a general election debate in a Tuesday interview. While many Democratic candidates have shied away from directly attacking the president, Biden the current Democratic frontrunner […]
Stocks ended a five-day winning streak on Tuesday as investors cautiously assessed the first big round of corporate earnings reports. Technology companies fared the worst, weighed down by a 1.3%
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) She is not a member of Hatzalah, but she saves lives. She considers it her full-time job, yet she does not get paid. She wishes to remain anonymous, but we will call her, Hadassah. Hadassah, in her early forties, spends her days driving cancer patients and their family members […]
A driver exiting a car wash in New Jersey accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and careened into a nearby waterway Tuesday. It happened in Hackensack and involved
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