Some U.S.-based users of WeChat are suing President Donald Trump in a bid to block an executive order that they say would effectively bar access in the U.S. to the
New York’s never-enforced ban on single-use plastic bags has survived a lawsuit lodged by a plastic bag manufacturer and convenience store owners, but a state judge ruled Thursday that state regulators went too far by allowing stores to hand out thicker plastic bags. A state law effective March 1 bans many types of businesses from […]
Attention New York residents! Are you above the age of 16 and unemployed? If so, you may be eligible for federal unemployment benefits, even if you have never worked before!
Whether kids are on a trip to the petting zoo or a Chol Hamoed trip to the circus there is no doubt kids of all ages love animals. In this
Dear Yidden, What’s more important than providing a ‘close to homeless’ family, a roof over their head? Although there are many of us going through a hard time and my cause is not entirely unique, I still feel compelled to reach out to you as a matter of urgency. My close friend living in Eretz […]
Israel’s Health Ministry recorded 720 new coronavirus cases as of Sunday morning in the previous 24 hours, a typically low number recorded every Sunday following a low number of tests
A western New York couple’s big wedding is off – at least for now – after an 11th-hour court order in a fight between couples and the state over a 50-person limit on social gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. A federal appellate judge in Manhattan on Friday granted a state request that effectively blocks Pamella […]
The Israel Airports Authority extended the ban on non-Israeli citizens from entering Israel on Sunday until October 1 due to the high coronavirus infection rate in the country. A surprising
Anticipating a wave of mail-in voting this fall, New York state will now give voters a chance to correct missing signatures and other clerical errors so their absentee ballots can be counted — but the exact provisions haven’t yet been made public after last-minute negotiations between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers. Cuomo said late Friday […]
New York state will apply for a federal program for unemployment money now that the state won’t have to come up with additional funds to cover a portion of what the Trump administration had originally proposed, state officials said Friday. Since “the federal government has blinked and will no longer make states provide funding they […]
As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it’s leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost. Disputes are flaring both at colleges that announced weeks ago they would stick with virtual […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Even during the COVID-19 era there are people that enter shuls to collect Tzedakah. Some shuls still let everyone in, and others do not. GREATNESS OF TEFILLAH The classic work entitled the Chovos Halvavos provides five things that can be achieved in Tefilah – prayer: • It expresses the […]
Israel’s Health Ministry updated the statistics of Covid-19 cases after Shabbos. The number of ill patients in serious condition with the disease rose to 398. On Shabbos, some 1,492 people
With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to
Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-school supplies: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation has found. The world’s three biggest computer companies, Lenovo, HP and Dell, have told school districts they have […]
Bantering during the final night of the Democratic National Convention, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang repeatedly got the name of “our current vice president” wrong. Was it “Mika Pints?” or “Paints?” Or maybe “Ponce,” Yang suggested. “Oh, some kind of weird foreign name?” Louis-Dreyfus asked. “Yeah, not very American sounding,” Yang […]
French politicians of all political views roundly condemned Saturday graffiti denying the Holocaust that was scrawled on a wall in the village that was the site of the France’s biggest massacre of civilians by the Nazis during World War II. The rare display of unity, from French President Emmanuel Macron to the far-left and the […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Joe Biden’s speech on Thursday night seems to have hit a homerun among voters. But to people in Canada that were listening – there was something vaguely familiar, according to reports. Biden ended his speech with the words, “For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful […]
President Donald Trump is threatening to send law enforcement to polling places for the upcoming presidential election, part of a growing pattern of rhetoric in which he has suggested that
The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency will head to Tehran next week to press Iranian authorities for access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the organization said Saturday. It will be the first visit to Iran of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael […]
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