by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com This guide is presented, as a last minute “just in case.” It is presented in honor of an old friend, Rabbi Yitzchok Scherman, who made the request. Also, the Chofetz Chaim tells us that if we learn the halachos – it is as if we had actually brought it. […]
Following the news that Hamekubal Harav Dov Kook was hospitalized after falling ill with the coronavirus, the city of Tiverya has put its secular versus religious clashes behind it to
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Yes, you had better check that Matzah. This is for two reasons: The first is to fulfill a Torah Mitzvah of personally guarding the Matzah – and the second is to make sure that they are not Chometz. We will start with the second reason first. Yes, it is […]
In the wake of the severe outbreak of the coronavirus in Bnei Brak, the local hospital stated on Tuesday that they are unable to accept any more patients due to
An initiative supported by Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky has been launched in Israel to lessen the loneliness of those spending the Seder alone, including the elderly. According to Harav Yitzchak
The Knesset approved the nationwide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday evening. The lockdown bans Israelis from leaving their cities or yishuvim from 7 p.m. on Tuesday
An unspeakable tragedy has befallen us! A shocked community grieves and four young children are left without a father while their mother battles Corona Virus. The unspeakable tragedy which began
The former Chief Rabbi of Israel, HaRav Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, began feeling ill this week. He was taken for tests to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital on Tuesday and was diagnosed with the
The Shin Bet stated on Tuesday that it arrested an Israeli citizen last month who has been communicating with Iranian intelligence agents to provide information to them and perpetrate acts
New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump in the outbreak, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The state’s death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489 deaths. “That’s 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual. There’s a family, there’s […]
We are facing a year like no other. Shuls are closed due to the Coronavirus as we are all following the advice of the Gedolei Yisrael to Daven B’yichidus. For
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Yehuda Leib (“Leibel”) Groner, who was a secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZATZAL for over 40 years. He was 88.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to freeze U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, saying the international group had “missed the call” on the coronavirus pandemic. Trump also played down the release of January memos from a senior adviser that represented an early warning of a possible coronavirus pandemic, saying he had not seen […]
The measure of a nation — its DNA, or sometimes its political system — becomes more visible when its leader is stricken in office. How to respond, and what to tell — or not tell — the populace? The hospitalization of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the first head of government to be stricken by […]
35 choshuver yungerleit, English speaking were stranded away from their families like many others in Eretz Yisroel for this Pesach ??? ????? ?????. If ?”? we haven’t yet had the ????? many of these young newly married couples will be spending ??? alone and will have to cook the full ??”? and buy just the […]
There isn’t a person who isn’t grateful to the heroes of Hatzolah, who have been responding to literally thousands upon thousands of COVID-19 emergencies. Just Flatbush Hatzolah was responding to
Despite federal health recommendations, thousands of Wisconsin voters waited hours in long lines outside overcrowded polling stations on Tuesday so they could participate in a presidential primary election that tested
Budget Expanded to $1,250,000 Thousands of families of yungeleit who would normally go away for Yom Tov have been told by rabbonim and doctors to stay home. They have no choice but to make Yom Tov themselves. However, many of them live on shoestring budgets as it is, barely making it from month to month. Where are they to get money to pay […]
Many in Israel were shocked yesterday to hear of the untimely passing of Reb Bentzion Kuperstock, famed baal chesed and father of 11. Kuperstock was perhaps most famous for his
There are 9,408 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Wednesday morning and 71 fatalities, six more than Tuesday night. A total of 147 patients in serious condition,
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