An attorney for Jussie Smollett has written a letter warning that if Chicago follows through on its vow to sue the “Empire” actor for the cost of the investigation into his claim that he was attacked, he’ll demand sworn testimony from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the police chief and others. In a letter dated April 4 […]
British police stationed armed officers outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday after tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying that Julian Assange could be
Attorneys for Michael Cohen are asking members of Congress to help keep him out of prison. In a letter sent to lawmakers Thursday, Cohen’s legal team said he is still sorting through documents in his personal files that might be of interest to House Democrats investigating President Donald Trump, including emails, voice recordings, images and […]
The Kotel Heritage Foundation is busy preparing for Pesach as is the case every year. One of the areas addressed is the removal of the kvitlach from the Kosel stones,
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Zohar (Vol. II 183b) tells us that Matzah is called “michlah d’mehemnusah – food that increases emunah – faith in Hashem.” There is also a minhag mentioned in Shulchan Aruch (OC 429:1) to ensure that every member of the community have kimcha d’pischa – flour for Pesach in […]
Israelis head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the country’s 21st parliamentary elections. Over 6.3 million eligible voters will cast ballots in an election largely seen as a referendum on long-seated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here is a closer look at what to expect: CHASING HISTORY Netanyahu is seeking his fourth consecutive term […]
The fifth installment of the Charedi Patrol training course graduated on Thursday with 21 new graduates. The participants are carrying out their mandatory service via the police instead of the
The first privately funded spacecraft to journey to the moon passed its most crucial test yet on Thursday when it dropped into lunar orbit one week ahead of landing. After traveling over 5.5 million kilometers (3.4 million miles) around the Earth and drawing ever closer to the moon, the spacecraft finally swung into the moon’s […]
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan jumped into the 2020 presidential race on Thursday, portraying himself as a candidate who can bridge Democrats’ progressive and working class wings to win the White House. Ryan, 45, announced his primary bid on ABC’s “The View.” He plans a kickoff rally on Saturday in downtown Youngstown, where a big turnout […]
The Central Election Committee has disqualified this video as a Shas election advert because it was ruled Rav Yigal Cohen was promising a bracha for voting Shas, which is prohibited under election law. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
Lara Kollab, the doctor who was fired from the Cleveland Clinic for tweeting that she would purposely give the wrong medication to Jews, was recently accepted to a residency program in California and then fired from it. Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California announced in an April 1 press release on their website that they told […]
In the accompanying Shas election video, viewers are warned regarding the number two man in the Blue and White party, Yair Lapid. “Look carefully into his eyes” we are told,
Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead on Thursday that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to the U.S. In his latest backtrack in recent days, Trump told reporters he […]
President Vladimir Putin told Israel’s visiting prime minister on Thursday that the Russian military helped locate the remains of an Israeli soldier missing since 1982 with Syrian assistance, while Damascus denied any knowledge of the matter. The recovery of Zachary Baumel’s remains closed a famous case that has plagued Israel for nearly four decades, but […]
Spray-painted Swastikas and vulgar phrases threatening to destroy the Jews define the sad reality we live in. Open any news outlet and you will find an article showcasing the latest
The High Court of Justice has prohibited the Israel Electric Company from cutting off power due to lack of payment to Palestinian residents of Judea and Samaria as well as
After many years of diligent studying, Ephraim Lerner, a talmid at Morristown’s Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in New Jersey, completed the study of the entire shas at a grand siyum celebration on Monday, Adar 25, with 300 friends, classmates, shluchim, yeshivah staff and family in attendance. Speakers at the siyum included Rabbi Chaim Schapiro, the menahel […]
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bentzion Gupstein of the Otzma Yehudit party received a most unwelcoming welcome upon their arrival in Tiveria on Wednesday, arriving in the hope of making an election
The measles outbreak in New York has taken a new turn, with the announcement on Thursday that prisoners at the Otisville Correctional Facility will not be allowed to have visitors.
As palm trees swayed in the ocean breeze, Yujing Zhang approached Secret Service agents in the Mar-a-Lago parking lot. She said she was going to the swimming pool at the
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