By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Today, a number of people will be getting haircuts for Shabbos and for Shavuos. If those people read this article

Belgian authorities have carried out another search and arrest in the investigation into the suicide bombings that killed 32 at Brussels Airport and the city’s subway in March. The Federal

There’s an old saying: You get what you pay for. Or maybe not, at least in the world of Social Security. Workers pay for the Social Security Administration (SSA) through

A State Department official produced to answer questions in a civil lawsuit probing Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server said no officials responsible for handling public records requests

[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman] It is the practice throughout Klal Yisroel to wait to daven Maariv on Shavuos until it is certainly dark. This means that we daven Maariv after

A co-chairman of a pro-Trump super PAC revealed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has the resources to self-fund the rest of his campaign. Ed Rollins, co-chairman of the Great America

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] Erev Shavuos is an extremely auspicious time to give tzedaka to provide food for the poor and needy. The great Mekubal, Rav Chaim Palagi zt”l, promised great reward

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Donald Trump needs to pick an experienced running mate because “he doesn’t know a lot about the issues” and strongly urged him

Nearing the end of a lengthy primary fight, Democrats are coalescing around Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and looking to reunite the party through a carefully orchestrated plan aimed at nudging

From the YWN archives: In one of his shiurim, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein explained that his father-in-law, Maran HaGaon Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZATZAL would on erev Shavuos visit the

After months of debate, the White House has approved plans to expand the military’s authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban when necessary, as the violence in Afghanistan escalates, senior

A growing number of travelers are signing up for the government’s expedited airport screening programs, only to face another wait. After angry fliers missed flights this spring because of lengthy

Germany is seeking to have documents and recordings from the groundbreaking mid-1960s trial of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp included in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” register. The 1963-1965

The Federal Aviation Administration has ruled out requiring psychological testing for airline pilots in favor of enhanced mental health support programs in response to a crash last year in which