R’ Yitzchak Sofer, a resident of Miami, who is currently in Eretz Yisrael, visited the home of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein on Monday to receive a bracha. Sofer, who lives

Folllowing Israel’s censure of Poland’s new restitution law as “immoral,” Poland summoned Israel’s charge daffaires Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon to a meeting on Monday for “intervening in the internal affairs of another country” and “the statements of the foreign minister against the Polish government.” The new bill, which was passed by Poland’s lower house of parliament […]

The hottest day of an unprecedented and dangerous heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest on Monday, with temperatures expected to obliterate records that had been set just the day before. Seattle was predicted to hit up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) well above Sundays all-time high of 104 F (40 C). Portland, Oregon, […]

The mayor of Surfside, Florida, described a chance meeting with a 12-year-old girl at the Champlain Towers South collapse site Sunday night that hit me the hardest. Last night, when I did my late night pass at the building there was little girl. Shes about 12 years old and she was sitting by herself, Surfside […]

Iran has not made a decision yet about whether to extend an agreement with the U.N. atomic watchdog over access to surveillance footage at its nuclear sites, the countrys foreign ministry said Monday. The remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh come after a three-month deal between Tehran and international nuclear inspectors to preserve video […]

One more body has been discovered in the rubble of the partial collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, bringing the number of people killed 10, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava

Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets in recent days to protest against President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, whose security forces and supporters have violently dispersed them. The demonstrations were sparked by the death of an outspoken critic of the PA in security forces custody last week, but the grievances run much […]

Rescue workers digging feverishly for a fifth day Monday stressed that they could still find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo building, a hope family members clung

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Israel’s Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai, who is in Surfside at the scene of the building collapse, told Israeli radio on Monday morning that there is “zero chance of finding anyone

Nina Le Troadec, a 15-year-old resident of Champlain Towers East, witnessed the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South from her bedroom window. Le Troadec said she and her family were

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The story must have happened a number of years ago, because the question was posed to Rav Elyashiv ztl. Apparently, a group of overweight men got together and made a bet. Whomsoever would lose the most weight in one week would get the entire pot (of money, that […]

Shipments of Qatari-funded fuel into the Gaza Strip will resume for the first time since last months 11-day war between Israel and Gazas terror group Hamas rulers, the U.N. envoy to the Mideast said Sunday. The move indicates a return to the informal understandings between Israel and Hamas in recent years, in which the Islamic […]

Surfside, Florida, – As rescue efforts in the community of Surfside, Florida continue, United Hatzalah of Israel was dispatched on Saturday night together with the IDFs Home Front Command in order to assist the forces and people on the ground cope with the ongoing rescue operations that have been taking place since Thursday morning. The […]

The bodies of Leon, z’l, and Ruth Oliwkowicz, z’l, residents of the Champlain Towers South residential building in Surfside, were found over the weekend, the police announced on Sunday. Aryey

Hush-hush diplomacy. In-person visits. And a very public no-surprises agreement on Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Rome on Sunday as

Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous. Thats how the National Weather Service described the historic heat wave hitting the Pacific Northwest, pushing daytime temperatures into the triple digits, disrupting Olympic qualifying events and breaking all-time high temperature records in places unaccustomed to such extreme heat. Portland, Oregon, reached 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 Celsius) Sunday, breaking […]

Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could

The U.S. military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, conducted airstrikes Sunday against what it said were facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups near the border between Iraq and Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the militias were using the facilities to launch unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq. Kirby […]

Poland on Friday defended planned changes to its property restitution regulations, after Israel said the reforms were immoral and will prevent Jewish claims for compensation or property seized during the Holocaust and communist times. Polands lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a controversial draft bill limiting Jewish claims to property seized during the Holocaust. […]

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