Once again, the alertness of border police stationed at a Jerusalem area border checkpoint led to preventing what may have been a major terrorist attack. In this latest case, border

Exit polls from the various television stations around Israel are looking promising for the Chareidi parties for the 21st Knesset. According to the Channel 12 exit poll, Yahadut Hatorah will

A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the Mishkan Shalom Shul in Tiveria, leading to a major blaze engulfing the entire building and the Sifrei Torah R”L. The fire

On April 5, 2019, The Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island in conjunction with the NYPD and Shomrim held its Annual Pre-Passover Briefing. In addition to engaging in holiday

After being a frustrated 5’7 male shopper for too many years, I had the idea to make high quality, properly fit & competitively priced clothing for men who are under

President Donald Trump had had it. The flow of migrants at the southern border was surging. Another caravan appeared to be forming. And his government had run out of holding

It is now 2 weeks before Pesach and we are rapidly approaching Yisroel and Elisheva’s first Yahrtzeit on Yud Tes Nisan the third day of Chal Hamoed. Needless to say, it has been a very painful and difficult year for all of us who miss both of them so very much. We were just at […]

New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak centered in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and ordered mandatory vaccinations in certain zip codes. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual order amid what he said was a measles crisis in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section, where more than 250 people have gotten measles […]

What could possibly motivate fifty people to venture out into the cold, pre-dawn Chicago night this past Wednesday? Well before sunrise, the dedicated men and women left the comfort of their warm beds to attend Agudath Israel of Illinois’ (AIOI) annual mission to the state capital of Springfield. Rabbi Shlomo Soroka, AIOI’s director of government […]

Five persons were arrested on Tuesday morning after they assaulted a guard in the emergency room of Poriah Hospital in Tiveria after the guard removed one of them from the

Just two hours before the polls close in israel, Hagaon HaRav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel released a dramatic video calling on the Chareidi community

Although the weather is frigid and Purim was just a few days ago , believe it or not Pesach is just around the corner! Homemakers everywhere are starting (or at

In the attached photo, HaGaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky is seen seated next to the Gerrer Rebbe at UTJ pre-election even in Yerushalayim on Monday, an unprecedented occurrence. Make sure to

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz was on his way from a campaigning tour in Ashdod to a polling station in Rishon LeZion, when he was confronted

New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein voted last week against the New York State budget revenue bill due to its inclusion of congestion pricing. Congestion pricing puts another financial burden

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) Rav Yaakov Emden (1697-1776), better known as the Yaavetz, was one of the Gedolei haAchronim.  He lived in Altona, which was then a territory owned by the King of Denmark called Holstein Glueckstadt.  Jews lived there because the taxes were significantly lower than nearby Hamburg. There is a fascinating […]

President Donald Trump took a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his Russia investigation. It may have been premature. The scramble to frame the investigation’s findings in the best political light is sure to be renewed in coming days when Mueller’s report is expected to be released in redacted form. Now that the […]

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases, but the ruling is on hold for several days. Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America […]

The Federal Reserve on Monday put forward two proposals to modify regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis that the banking industry complained were too restrictive. The proposed regulatory changes were approved on a 4-1 vote with Fed board member Lael Brainard opposing the changes. She said they “would weaken important safeguards” put […]

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