If you are planning to fill your car’s gas tank before Shabbos, wait, as gas prices for 95 octane gasoline in Israel will be dropping significantly on motzei Shabbos, by 47 agorot per liter. The price drop goes into effect at midnight on motzei Shabbos. After the price drop, a liter of 95 octane gas […]
The New York state Supreme Court ordered a girls school in Monsey, Bais Chinuch Ateres Bnos, to close down. The court sided with the town of Ramapo, who filed a
A security breach inside Marriott’s worldwide hotel empire has compromised the information of as many as 500 million guests, exposing in some cases credit card numbers, passport numbers and birthdates,
Mesivta Ohr Yisrael, a division of Yeshiva Gedola Ohr Yisrael, (Est. Elul 1999), under the leadership of the Rosh HaYeshiva, Harav Avraham Nesanel Zucker, and the Menahel Rabbi Raphael Bernstein,
Following a spate of burglaries and theft across the borough perpetrated by masked suspects, on Wednesday night Shomrim received a call that 5 suspects wearing helmets and ski-masks were seen
The residents of Minchas Yitzhak Street in Jerusalem rubbed their eyes as more than twenty prison commanders from all over the country dressed in uniforms and armed with weapons exited
CNN on Thursday parted ways with contributor Marc Lamont Hill after a speech the college professor made on Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations. A CNN spokesperson confirmed Hill is no longer under contract. The network did not give a reason, but the move comes amid objections to Hill’s speech by the Anti-Defamation […]
A new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families says the number of uninsured children in the United States has increased for the first time in nearly a
The United States circulated a U.N. resolution Thursday condemning Hamas, which controls Gaza, “for repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence” that puts civilians at risk. The draft
Federal Reserve officials earlier this month appeared on track to raise its key interest rate again in December, but they signaled that the pace of future rate hikes might need to slow given emerging risks to the economy, according to minutes of the discussions released Thursday. The minutes of the Fed’s Nov. 7-8 meeting showed […]
A new concourse with 18 gates is opening this weekend at LaGuardia Airport, part of a broader plan to modernize the dilapidated and oft-mocked facility. The new gates are part
As tensions flare surrounding the controversial draft bill in Knesset, Yesh Atid opposition party chairman, MK Yair Lapid, in his customary fashion, spoke out against the chareidi leadership. MK Yisrael
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com No. This headline is not a Henny Youngman joke. Rather, it was a question that was posed recently to two of the outstanding Gedolei haDor – Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein Shlita and Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita. The background and the question, were as follows: There was a couple that was […]
Republican governors are minimizing any suggestion that voter discontent with President Donald Trump played a role in the midterm elections, where Democrats flipped seven governorships, took control of the U.S. House and picked up hundreds of state legislative seats. “I don’t think what you saw in this electoral cycle was any different that would you […]
A few months ago, 24 dayanim were appointed to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel-affiliated batei din around Israel. A probe conducted by the Ladaat News website reveals that while 24
The city of Lod demolished an illegally built building in the Pardes Snir neighborhood of the city earlier this month which led to rising tensions between the city’s Arab residents
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer now shares something in common with President Donald Trump: They can both be called “Zaidy”! The New York Democrat tweeted an announcement Wednesday that his daughter Jessica and husband Michael Shapiro had welcomed a baby boy, Noah Melvin Schumer-Shapiro, “a very happy Brooklyn baby.” The middle name, Melvin, Schumer wrote, […]
The NYPD released new footage and is asking for the public’s assistance identifying the individual seen in the attached surveillance video and photo in connection to the vicious assault of
Former FBI Director James Comey moved Thursday to block a subpoena from the Republican-led House of Representatives, saying the closed-door interview demanded by lawmakers would be selectively leaked for political
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