By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Today is the 138th Yartzeit of Rav Yisroel Salanter ztl, founder of the Mussar Movement. It is unfortunate, however, that many people are not familiar with the writings and Mussar theory of Rav Yisroel. This author would like to suggest that his writings can be understood in contemporary […]
Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, caused flooding, broke out fourth-floor windows and tossed a stationary bike, chairs and mattresses outside Saturday in the latest disturbance over concerns
Myanmars new military authorities appeared to have cut most access to the internet on Saturday as they faced a rising tide of protest over their coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyis elected government. Numerous internet users noted a slow disappearance of data services, especially from mobile service providers, that accelerated sharply late Saturday morning. […]
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Meir Wosner, z’tl, Av Beis Din of Zichron Meir in Bnei Brak, was niftar on Sunday at the age of 82 after being hospitalized in serious condition
The United Arab Emirates drastically reduced its funding to the U.N. agency for “Palestinian refugees” in 2020, the year it signed a U.S.-brokered normalization accord with Israel. The agency known
Our daily Brachos can shield and save us from “all sicknesses and plagues” (Devarim 28:63). Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 6:7 The Midrash (Bamidbar Rabba 18:21) says that in the days of Dovid HaMelech, 100 Jews were dying every day in a plague. Dovid HaMelech instituted the saying of 100 Brachos daily – and the plague […]
The IDF’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center warned on Sunday that Israel’s emergence from its lockdown on Sunday morning will result in a sharp spike in its already high infection rate. Also on Sunday morning, Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 57 virus fatalities over the weekend. In the coming weeks, a sharp increase in morbidity […]
An-early-morning fire in a Lakewood Yeshiva left a Sefer Torah R”L destroyed and the building totally gone. The fire started just before 3:00AM at Yeshiva Chayei Olam on Faraday, and
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Lawmakers stood before the House late Thursday to tell their personal, often stunning accounts of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, preserving for the record their own memories of the most violent domestic attack on Congress in the nations history. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., led colleagues in the hourlong session days […]
Eviction of 17 Jewish Souls Will Be Evicted From Their Home In The Next Month They are facing foreclosure unless they can pay $125,000 to their bank and they owe
The Fifth Commandment by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In honor of the Yartzeit of Rabbi Yaakov Hirsch zl the authors father-in-law, the 23rd of Shvat. Last week, parshas Yisro, we leined the aseres hadibros. In them, of course, is the Mitzvah of Kivud Av vAim honoring ones parents. The Torah itself assures […]
Israel’s cabinet on Thursday after midnight extended the closure of Ben-Gurion Airport to commercial flights for another two weeks, until February 21. Israelis will be unable to enter or exit
The video, shot by a man detained in a Moscow protest, shows a group of people jammed into a police minibus. One of them says on the recording that they
When a Halloween party sparked a COVID-19 outbreak at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, school officials conducted rapid screening on more than 1,000 students in a week, including many who didnt have symptoms. Although such asymptomatic screening isnt approved by regulators and the 15-minute tests arent as sensitive as the genetic one that […]
A shooting early Saturday during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel left one man dead and several other people wounded, police said. The shooting occurred during some type of large get-together among guests at the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, according to Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese. Investigators were still piecing together […]
(CNN)President Joe Biden doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings, as is tradition for past presidents, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.” When asked
In 1959, a modest jewelry store opened with just 350 square feet of retail space under the name Simpson Jewelers. Since then, this family-run business has grown by leaps and
Iran on Thursday received its first batch of foreign-made coronavirus vaccines as the country struggles to stem the worst outbreak of the pandemic in the Middle East. The shipment consists of 500,000 doses of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines which arrived at Tehrans Imam Khomeini International Airport from Moscow, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Also […]
Everyone arriving in the U.K. from countries identified as coronavirus hotspots will have to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine starting Feb. 15 in a bid to stop new virus
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