(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) “Rosh Yeshiva, there is a Jewish fellow who wants to become a reform Rabbi. Someone suggested that he attend a yeshiva first. Could he start coming to shiurim here?” “Of course! What is the question?” “Rosh Yeshiva, there is a Jewish fellow that is kind of involved with the […]
An Israeli team aiming to land a spacecraft on the moon in two weeks can now expect more than glory if it works. How about a cool $1 million? The XPrize Foundation announced Thursday it’s offering a $1 million award for a successful lunar landing. Israel’s privately financed spacecraft Beresheet — Hebrew for “In the […]
Federal legislation proposed Thursday would give state prison officials the ability they have long sought to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates within their walls. U.S. Sen. Tom
During a CNN townhall event on Wednesday night, New Jersey Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker was asked how his faith would influence him as president. During his
The senior Posek and senior Pediatrician of Lakewood have once again partnered together to warn parents about the dangers of sexual abuse for children – over the Yom Tov season. Yom Tov is a time when families get together, school is out, and parents tend to be lax in knowing the exact whereabouts of their […]
Presenting himself as both vindicated and vindictive, a fired-up President Donald Trump turned the findings of the Russia investigation into a political weapon at a Michigan rally that was part victory lap, part 2020 campaign push. Trump unleashed a fervent diatribe Thursday about the inquiry, which he deemed “the greatest hoax in the history of […]
David Blumberg, a citizen of France and Israel, who was arrested in Israel in November 2016, was extradited from Israel to France after he escaped a year earlier from prison
Three years ago, Bituach Leumi (National Insurance Institute) decided to charge girls attending a chareidi school for baalei teshuvah despite the fact they were not yet 18-years-old and still in
Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller’s full report after learning the special counsel’s findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exoneration based on a four-page summary by his attorney general. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler was told by Attorney General William Barr that […]
An Eritrean national who was employed by the Jerusalem Kretchnif Rebbe Shlita to perform janitorial work for a number of months during the past year tried to sue the rebbe
Shas party chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, admitted on Thursday, that the veto of Eli Yishai of the Yachad party becoming a cabinet minister was his doing, as alleged by Yishai.
Despite the great criticism among many in the dati leumi sector of the agreement with Otzma Yehudit, a survey that examined the voting nature of the dati leumi public reveals
With the uproar over New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger’s comments about “Palestine”, well-known anti-Semite Linda Sarsour organized a protest at his offices in Boro Park on Thursday evening. The turnout was very small and protesters considered the event a disappointment. Meanwhile, Dov Hikind called on the community to come out and support Yeger and denounce Sarsour. […]
As we gather around the Seder this year, it’s time for us to reflect upon our national and personal transformation. Winston Churchill the Prime Minister of Great Britain once famously
This is simply shocking. On the NYC Housing Authority website, there is an application for HPD’s “Compliance package”. There is a question which states “Please identify the ethnicity of the
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s annual Pesach pamphlet containing directives for hotels and restaurants operating during the yomtov, explaining what measures must be taken to kasher kitchens, was halted from being printed at the last moment. Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Shlita decided that the pamphlet contained too many chumros, and therefore, he prevented […]
Over 1,000 people, many of them strangers, attended the Levaya of an American lone soldier in the IDF, hours after a call went out on social media urging those who
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