Parents spend thousands of dollars on private tutoring for their children each school year, and yet they seem to be struggling as much as before. Do you know anyone who fits into
Senior Dati Leumi Rabbanim spoke out on Tuesday against the “kashrus revolution” announced by Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana earlier in the day. “We are happy with the determination of
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black
India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the South Asian country. Most experts believe India’s official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a […]
New York City will require workers in city-run hospitals and health clinics to either get vaccinated or get tested weekly as officials battle a rise in COVID-19 cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. De Blasio’s order will not apply to teachers, police officers and other city employees, but it dovetails into the city’s intense […]
A Sydney-based kashrus authority announced on Wednesday that it is removing Ben & Jerry’s ice cream from its approved products list in protest of the company’s boycott of Jewish communities in Yehudah and Shomron. “Whilst kosher certification for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is not local, as a help for the community, the KA has […]
An off-duty Drug Enforcement Administration agent posed for photographs in which he flashed his DEA badge and firearm outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to a court filing Tuesday following the agent’s arrest. A video posted on the internet also showed Mark Sami Ibrahim carrying a flag bearing the words “Liberty […]
Firefighters rescued a number of children on Tuesday afternoon from a rollercoaster that was set up as part of the temporary amusement park in the Kiryat Herzog neighborhood of Bnei
Wildfires in the American West, including one burning in Oregon that’s currently the largest in the U.S., are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos spew smoke and ash into the air in columns up to six miles high. Skies over New York City were hazy Tuesday as strong […]
Donald Trump will meet with Republicans running against Rep. Liz Cheney next week, and endorse one in the next few months, the former president said in a statement Tuesday. Trump will meet with them in Bedminster, New Jersey, home of the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, where he has moved for the summer. He didn’t […]
On Tuesday, police in Jerusalem announced that they arrested two suspects, both Arabs from East Jerusalem, for having attacked a Jewish man who was passing through the old city of
The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday issued final approval for a monorail connecting trains from Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport, giving the go-ahead for the roughly $2 billion project to pursue
A tiny fraction of vaccinated New Yorkers have tested positive for COVID-19 as infections and hospitalizations rise, the state Department of Health told The Associated Press Tuesday. At least 8,700 vaccinated people have tested positive for COVID-19, according to department spokesperson Abigail Barker. That’s out of the nearly 11 million New York residents who are […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com This Shabbos we have two treats: Shabbos Nachamu and Tu B’Av. After three weeks of devastation, we are treated to the comforting words of Yishayahu HaNavi combined with Tu b’Av. Tu B’Av is a special day in the Jewish calendar, involving Shidduchim, the king’s daughter, and the Kohen Gadol’s […]
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take the COVID-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year’s rising caseloads and shutdowns if people refuse to protect themselves from the coronavirus. McConnell urged Americans to ignore the “demonstrably bad advice” coming from pundits and others against the […]
News that Sara Schenirer’s Men’s Division now offers a master’s in cybersecurity for men has been greeted with great excitement by the frum community. “Every day, yungerleit reach out to
R’ Nesanel Gantz – “The Test” Sunday July 25th @12pm NY TIME, 7pm in Eretz Yisrael), is TU B”AV TOGETHER!over 500,000+ of Jews across the world will unite in tefillah
French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “The unprecedented revelation … should send a chill down the spine of world leaders,” Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted social media companies over her temporary suspension from Twitter on Tuesday, calling it “a Communist-style attack on free speech.” Twitter imposed the 12-hour timeout on Monday, saying some of her tweets violated its policy against spreading misinformation that could cause harm during the coronavirus pandemic. “Twitter, Facebook, and the rest […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, angrily confronted Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday in testimony on Capitol Hill, rejecting Paul’s insinuation that the U.S. helped fund research at a Chinese lab that could have sparked the COVID-19 outbreak. Paul suggested that Fauci had lied before Congress when in May he […]
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