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
President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied instructing an aide to urge a federal agency to repudiate weather forecasters who contradicted his claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama. Trump responded
Spreading Torah One Blatt at a Time The legacy of a man uniting Klal Yisrael through Torah study It’s booming every weekday morning in Miami Beach. Baalei baatim from around the Miami area come together before work to learn Gemara in depth with weekly maarei mekomos and chaburahs – a great way to jumpstart […]
“The glue that will hold Klal Yisroel together.” In 1923, Vienna, Austria, was the site of the first Knessiah Gedolah – the first public gathering – of Agudath Israel. One of the youngest Rabbanim in attendance was HaRav Meir Shapiro zt”l, the 36 year old Rav of Lublin. HaRav Shapiro wanted to suggest that the […]
The weekend edition of the Peleg Yerushalmi-affiliated HaPeles newspaper attacked chareidi politicians of conducting “a clearance sale” but signaled out one of them as being a champion of the battle
A Scottish court dealt another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans Wednesday, ruling that his decision to suspend Parliament less than two months before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union was an unlawful attempt to avoid democratic scrutiny. The government immediately said it would appeal, as the political opposition demanded […]
A policeman on Wednesday succeeded in smashing a parked car window to extricate a toddler locked inside. This case occurred on Wednesday afternoon hours. Ofakim police received a call for
People who were too young on 9/11 to even remember their lost loved ones, and others for whom the grief is still raw, paid tribute with wreath-layings and the solemn roll call of the dead Wednesday as America marked the 18th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. “Eighteen years. We will not […]
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