Israels government on Wednesday advanced a raft of new coronavirus restrictions, including sweeping implementation of a digital vaccine passport and tighter restrictions on mass gatherings, as the country struggles with skyrocketing new infections. The country that had appeared to put the coronavirus pandemic behind it a few months ago after a world-leading vaccine drive is […]
Inflation at the wholesale level jumped a higher-than-expected 1% in July, matching the rise from the previous month, and dimming hopes that the upward trajectory of prices would begin to
Dear brothers and sisters, My name is Miriam and with Hashem’s help I will be getting married before Rosh Hashanah. My family has no money for the chasuna or to
Israels foreign minister on Thursday inaugurated the countrys diplomatic representation in Morocco, a symbol of the normalization of the relations between the two nations. Yair Lapids two-day visit is the first to the country by an Israeli minister since 2003. It comes less than a year after Israel and Morocco reached a deal to establish […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Yeruchem Levovitz ztl first studied under the Alter of Slabodka for 3 years and then he studied at the Yeshiva in Kelm. The schedule in Kelm was very precise. Shacharis lasted for an hour and a half. This author is assuming that this reference is to Mondays and […]
A cargo ship broke into two pieces after running aground in a northern Japanese port and is spilling oil into the sea, Japans coast guard said Thursday. All 21 Chinese and Filipino crew members were safely rescued by the coast guard, said the ships Japanese operator, NYK Line. The 39,910-ton wood-chip carrier Crimson Polaris went […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was early 1942, and Beis Medrash Gavoha was just established. Not in Lakewood, however, but in in Westchester County, New York. It was
Israel’s Education Ministry said that nearly 45% of Chareidi students are exempt from quarantine according to preliminary results of serological tests performed in Charedi schools this week. Over 20% of
As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nations attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun. But scientists are warning the public not to be complacent, saying high levels of infection in the community are likely to lead to another spike in cases this fall. The reason […]
Close to 300 eager community members gathered last Thursday night at Bergen Hatzalahs inaugural community awareness event. The event displayed much of the equipment generously sponsored by members of the community including Emergency Response Vehicles, LUCAS automatic CPR devices, and EMT responder equipment including responder bags, AEDs, and other vital lifesaving tools. The event took […]
Israeli health officials sounded an alarm this week, warning Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that there could be thousands of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization within weeks. In a meeting on Tuesday
Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of […]
A Jewish man was the victim of a gunpoint robbery in the heart of Williamsburg’s Hasidic Community, early Thursday morning. Sources tell YWN that the victim was in front of
Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling center in a vacant building in Portland, Oregon, one of many such
Earlier this afternoon, YWN published an article stating that the massive Gerrer wedding scheduled for next Tuesday in the Rockland County College was cancelled by the Health Department. Shortly after,
Mossad head Dovid Barnea revealed secret information on Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi to US Central Intelligence Agency chief William Burns, who arrived in Israel for a visit on Tuesday.
Polands parliament passed a law on Wednesday that would prevent former Polish property owners, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants, from regaining property expropriated by the countrys communist regime. Israel condemned the legislation, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid saying it damages both the memory of the Holocaust and the rights of its victims. Meanwhile, Gideon […]
Almost 120 years ago, African American domestic workers settled in the Como neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, where they held Fourth of July parades, patronized shops on Horne Street and
According to the ruling handed down on Tuesday by the Regional Labor Court of Tel Aviv, employers are allowed to require employees or staff members to get the vaccine or
As we have reported, the historic wedding in the court of Ger had been scheduled to take place at the Bell Works arena in New Jersey, but had been moved
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