A U.S. citizen and former New Yorker accused of becoming a sniper for the Islamic State group stood silent as his lawyer entered a not guilty plea for him on Wednesday, with the lawyer saying afterward that her client had refused to do it himself. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov “lives by Sharia law,” defense attorney Susan […]
Divers on Wednesday recovered the body of the last missing victim of a boat fire off the California coast that killed 34 people. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced the end of the search on Twitter , saying it was “relieved to report” the final victim had been found. Authorities were still doing DNA […]
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported on Tuesday, a week before elections for 22nd Knesset, that there are 5.8 million registered voters in Israel, 48,000 more than in the
According to an Israel TV News13 report released by Arab Affairs correspondent Tzvi Yechezkeli, based on a recent MEMRI report, there is growing incitement against Jews in mosques throughout North
State attorneys general investigating whether Google is engaged in monopolistic behavior are planning to take a deep look into the tech giant’s advertising business. The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Google on Monday seeking internal documents about how it sells ads and tracks the behavior of people who use […]
The Jerusalem Municipality is demanding a ‘paving tax’ from Hadassah Hospital for the ongoing infrastructure work taking place on the campus to accommodate the Jerusalem light rail. According to a
The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States. The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ruling that had blocked the new asylum policy in some states along the southern border. The policy is meant to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that continued rocket fire from Gaza is making another war against Palestinian terrorists in the coastal strip inevitable, his latest headline-grabbing announcement just
On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Cicadas buzz and heavy equipment rumbles […]
A blaring red alert indicating rocket fire from Gaza interrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s campaign event in Ashdod on Tuesday night. He was forced to stop his speech and was
Anti-Chareidi Tiveria mayor Ron Kobi announced on Sunday that he would visit Mea Shearim and Beit Shemesh as part of his provocative election campaign for his anti-religious party, the Secular
Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid an escalating crisis between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Hassan Rouhani’s remarks signaled approval of President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of John Bolton as national security adviser, a […]
Now that school has begun and with the Yomim Tovim are just around the corner, many families are starting to do their major shopping for Rosh Hashanah and the many
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic, but criticism by several state attorneys general clouded prospects for an end to litigation against the company and the family that owns it. Arizona Attorney General Mark […]
HaGaon HaRav Eliyahu Landau Shlita, a Rosh Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad’s Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva, hinted to his talmidim that since Chabad does not involve itself in politics, the rabbonim are
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) There is a fascinating question raised in Chasuchei Chemed of Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein in Brachos (10a). A husband found out that the genetic predisposition toward schizophrenia in his future children was five times higher than that of the general populace. This was on account of his wife’s family history […]
President Donald Trump has risked turmoil in the financial markets and damage to the U.S. economy in waging his trade war with China, America’s top strategic rival. But Trump hasn’t exactly gone easy on America’s friends, either. From Europe to Japan, the president has stirred up under-the-radar trade disputes that potentially could erupt within weeks […]
A bus driver was surprised to discover a baby boy in a stroller still on the bus at the end of his run on Wednesday in Jerusalem. The bus driver
The Jerusalem Municipality has imposed a fine on the well-known Loichter (??????) Talmid Torah in Bayit Vegan after the school was adamant in its refusal to accept a child from
A Wisconsin man is accused of running a 10-man operation that manufactured thousands of counterfeit vaping cartridges loaded with THC oil every day for almost two years, authorities said. Kenosha
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