U.S. long-term mortgage rates were little changed this week. The key 30-year, fixed-rate loan hovered around an average 3.8% for the third straight week. Before leveling off, rates marked six straight weeks of declines putting them at historically low levels during this spring’s homebuying season. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on […]
Has there been a recent financial crisis that the media isn’t reporting? Why is it that every day there is another fundraiser being passed around WhatsApp, and every one of them with their own cheshbon why their campaign is unique, unprecedented, historic etc? A few years ago, the shidduch crisis was all the rage with […]
Potent thunderstorms have been blamed for one death and left more than 200,000 people without power across the southern United States — and fierce winds were expected to wallop parts of several states as new storms form Thursday, forecasters said. Fallen trees ripped down power lines and crashed into buildings along a line from Texas […]
The owner of the New England Patriots accepted Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize, known as the “Jewish Nobel,” at a lavish ceremony on Thursday, where he pledged $20 million to establish a foundation dedicated to combating anti-Semitism and the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel. He was awarded the 2019 Genesis Prize in recognition of his philanthropy […]
Jerusalem district police late Wednesday night apprehended a vandal defacing a billboard because it showed the face of a woman. When police checked the suspect, they found he was carrying
A 79-year-old Jewish woman was the latest victim of anti-Semitism in France, near a shul on Tuesday. A metallic pellet was fired at her and struck her in her head.
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) In the accompanying video, we see a frum man who visited Har Habayis on Thursday, June 20, 2019. When police saw him moving his lips, fearing
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 […]
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