If drug interdiction can be compared to a giant game of whack-a-mole, federal law enforcement officials delivered one mighty wallop this week when they raided a container ship at Philadelphia’s port and discovered a staggering amount of cocaine. Hidden inside seven shipping containers were 33,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms) of the illicit drug, one of the […]
On Tuesday evening, Matthew Charles traveled to the Queens, N.Y. resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—to say two simple words: “Thank you.” Today a criminal justice fellow at FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums), Charles’s story of redemption has garnered headlines around the country since he became one of the first […]
Former Justice Minister Chaim Ramon, of the Labor party, has come out against MK Yair Lapid, who holds the number two slot on the Blue and White party as well
Reb Zalman Grossman, a well-known Tzadik and Chosid in Yerushalayim, was severely beaten in an unprovoked attack at Kever Shimon Hatzadik, Wednesday morning. Rav Grossman spends hours each day at the Kever lighting candles and Davening for people. According to a report by Bichadrei Chareidim, Rav Grossman told a young child who was making alot of […]
It is not every day that you have tens of thousands of yidden – from Modern Orthodox to chassidim in their full levush, from the elderly to young children –
Speaking with interviewer Yaakov Katz at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is asked to address Iran and Tehran’s ongoing effort to complete a nuclear bomb.
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) It is a story that boggles the mind and one hopes and prays that it is not true. A group of eighth graders, it
Mexico’s Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ratify a new free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, making it the first of the three countries to gain legislative approval. Mexico’s upper chamber voted 114 to four with three abstentions in favor of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It will replace the North American Free […]
650 mispallalim took part in the Wednesday night visit to the kevarim of Yehoshua bin Nun and Kalev ben Yefune, located in Kifl Haris near Ariel in Shomron. The visit
China warned Thursday that threats and tariffs will not resolve trade tensions between the two biggest economies and blasted Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for his criticism of technology giant Huawei over patents. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng said Thursday that its “core concern” over mutual respect has to be properly accommodated. “If the US insists on […]
Contrary to reports last week that the case was being closed, the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Unit (PIU) is signaling the case is far from being closed, and just this
A Navy SEAL charged with killing a captive teenage militant in his care had told fellow troops that if they encountered a wounded enemy, he wanted medics to know how “to nurse him to death,” a former comrade testified Wednesday. When a radio call announced an Islamic State prisoner was wounded on May 3, 2017, […]
Some county clerks in New York said Wednesday they will defy a new state law authorizing driver’s licenses for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns will go to federal court with his concerns that the law signed Monday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo conflicts with federal policy, the western […]
An ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democrat who flipped a Republican district are joining a slowly growing group calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a congressional veteran, said in a Twitter video that Trump “certainly has committed all kinds of offenses that meet the standard” for a […]
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that “Iran made a very big mistake” in shooting down a U.S. drone but suggested it was an accident rather than a strategic error. Asked about a U.S. response, he said repeatedly, “You’ll find out.” A few minutes earlier, a senior U.S. military officer said Iran shot down the huge, […]
Israeli forces arrested a Jordanian national acting on behalf of Iranian intelligence to establish a spy network in Israel and the West Bank earlier this year, the Shin Bet security service revealed Thursday. Jordanian businessman Thaer Shafut, 32, a Jordanian citizen originally from Hebron, was arrested on April 17. He was was sent into the West Bank […]
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday addressed the International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism and the BDS Campaign held by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Some 350 participants from 30 countries are
Former top White House adviser Hope Hicks refused to answer questions related to her time in the White House in a daylong interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Donald Trump in their first interview with a person linked to his inner circle. Frustrated Democrats […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. was “wrong” to describe migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.” “They are entirely different realities,” de
For the first time ever, Hatzoloh – the volunteer ambulance service that responds to over 50,000 emergency medical calls every year – has received City Council funding. Under the leadership
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