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U.S. health officials on Wednesday tried to reassure patients that they face very low risks from ongoing contamination problems with widely prescribed blood pressure drugs. Drugmakers have issued more than

Police were operating during the night (Wednesday to Thursday) in the Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya. At some point, police came under attack with firebombs and rocks, targeting members of

Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign said Wednesday that it ejected a Breitbart News reporter from an event at a South Carolina college because it wanted to ensure that students felt “comfortable and safe.” The Texas Democrat’s campaign found itself in a public confrontation with the aggressive conservative web site a day after its senior editor-at-large, Joel […]

An Israeli businessman who refused to give his wife a ‘get’, leaving her an agunah, traveled to Thailand and did not return for six years, fearing he would be arrested

Impeach Trump? For Democrats, the answer is complicated. While more than 130 House Democrats — more than half the caucus — have come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to a tally by The Associated Press, those numbers don’t reflect the whole story. The number of Democrats who would […]

Hurricane Dorian caused limited damage in the northern Caribbean as it left the region Wednesday night, setting its sights on the U.S. mainland as it threatened to grow into a

Vermont’s largest hospital forced a nurse to participate in an abortion procedure over her moral objections in violation of federal law, a government civil rights agency said Wednesday. The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington could lose some federal funding if the two parties cannot agree within 30 days on the hospital’s policies on […]

Yamina chairman Ayelet Shaked and 14 candidates on its list sent a letter to Lubavitcher rabbonim on Tuesday, promising to work toward the shleimus of Eretz Yisrael according to the

Lebanese army gunners opened fired at two of three Israeli reconnaissance drones Wednesday after they entered Lebanese airspace, a security official and the state news agency said, amid heightened tensions

Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without infringing on First Amendment rights. The pendulum has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that […]

Netanyahu surprised the crowd at a religious Zionist conference in Givat Shmuel on Tuesday evening by beginning his speech with his religious practices rather than the expected political commentary, according

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Wednesday he made an “error in judgment” in reporting about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump’s finances without verifying the story. O’Donnell’s admission came in a tweet Wednesday after a lawyer for Trump said the story was false and defamatory, and called on NBC News to apologize and retract it. […]

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) “What? Two million dollars a year – just for the medication? For one person? And who exactly should pay for that?” It is not a rare question, and more and more, medicines are now carrying such a price tag.  The question is – what does halacha say about this? […]

Let’s face it. It is hard for bochurim to learn in camp. Keeping bochurim focused and listening during the summer is a challenge to which virtually every Rebbi can relate. This year, eleven camps comprising some 2,500 bochurim found a remarkable solution to this dilemma: A daily halacha program that sought to teach bochurim halachos […]

The Siyum Presents: 10th Siyum — Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg Please visit thesiyum.org for information and updates regarding the upcoming Siyum HaShas, or text siyum to 313131. If you would like

After the MBD and Moti Steinmetz concert that was scheduled for Haifa earlier this week was canceled, singers have decided to fight back against what is being called “secular coercion

Lord & Taylor, one of the nation’s oldest department stores, is being sold for $100 million to a rental clothing company. Le Tote Inc. is buying the company from Hudson’s Bay Co., which gets a minority stake in Le Tote and will control two seats on its board. Lord & Taylor, founded as a dry […]

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the presidential race as a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability was instead plagued by low polling

Chaya Blau, the mother of the Charedi employee with special needs who was assaulted by his fellow employees at a Shufersal (Supersol) supermarket in Gush Etzion was interviewed on Wednesday

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