Although the weather is frigid and Purim was just a few days ago , believe it or not Pesach is just around the corner! Homemakers everywhere are starting (or at
In the attached photo, HaGaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky is seen seated next to the Gerrer Rebbe at UTJ pre-election even in Yerushalayim on Monday, an unprecedented occurrence. Make sure to
Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz was on his way from a campaigning tour in Ashdod to a polling station in Rishon LeZion, when he was confronted
New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein voted last week against the New York State budget revenue bill due to its inclusion of congestion pricing. Congestion pricing puts another financial burden
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) Rav Yaakov Emden (1697-1776), better known as the Yaavetz, was one of the Gedolei haAchronim. He lived in Altona, which was then a territory owned by the King of Denmark called Holstein Glueckstadt. Jews lived there because the taxes were significantly lower than nearby Hamburg. There is a fascinating […]
President Donald Trump took a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his Russia investigation. It may have been premature. The scramble to frame the investigation’s findings in the best political light is sure to be renewed in coming days when Mueller’s report is expected to be released in redacted form. Now that the […]
A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases, but the ruling is on hold for several days. Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America […]
The Federal Reserve on Monday put forward two proposals to modify regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis that the banking industry complained were too restrictive. The proposed regulatory changes were approved on a 4-1 vote with Fed board member Lael Brainard opposing the changes. She said they “would weaken important safeguards” put […]
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A Chinese woman recently arrested at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club lied repeatedly to Secret Service agents while carrying computer malware unlike anything a government analyst had ever seen and had more than $8,000 in cash at her hotel room, along with an electronic device that detects hidden cameras, federal authorities told a judge Monday. […]
Kirstjen Nielsen’s replacement as Homeland Security secretary was practicing law in California when hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. That night, he applied for a job with the FBI. “I was trying to pay off student loans and then go for a federal career but decided it couldn’t […]
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, asked to deliver President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a Democratic-controlled House panel, is facing off with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for the first time since last week’s request. Rettig is sure to face questions from a House Appropriations Committee panel on the topic Tuesday afternoon. Treasury Secretary Steven […]
Momentum is gaining in Washington for a privacy law that could sharply rein in the ability of the largest technology companies to collect and distribute people’s personal data. A national law, the first of its kind in the U.S., could allow people to see or prohibit the use of their data. Companies would need permission […]
A Washington political consultant initially ensnared in the special counsel’s Russia investigation is asking a federal judge to spare him from prison time for unregistered lobbying and participating in a foreign donation scheme involving President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. W. Samuel Patten, who faces up to five years in prison, argued in court papers filed […]
U.S. measles cases are continuing to jump, and most of the reported illnesses are in children. Health officials say 465 measles cases have been reported this year, as of last week. That’s up from 387 the week before. The numbers are preliminary. The 2019 tally is already the most since 2014, when 667 were reported. […]
The following is via ABC7NY: An NYPD officer who recovered an abandoned dirt bike in Harlem Sunday afternoon fell off when he attempted to ride it back to the local
The city of Ashkelon is going to be experimenting with 3D crosswalks in the hope of improving road safety. The new crosswalk, as seen in the accompanying video, appears to
The man in the attached photo is wanted for numerous disturbing incidents in the past week. Flatbush Shomrim received many reports that he inappropriately touched women – including one on
In recent months, some anti-vaxxers have appropriated the yellow Star of David badge, which European Jews were required to wear during the Holocaust, to symbolize their “persecution” at the hands of government vaccine rules. The stars, emblazoned with the stylized words “No Vax,” are showing up on social media, especially on Facebook, and at anti-vaccine […]
More than 5 years after the murder and kidnapping of Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark Z”L, the alleged mastermind of the horrific crime has been convicted. All three co-conspirators have already received guilty verdicts or pleas. Erskin Felix, 40, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn was convicted Monday of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence following a […]
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