The U.N. General Assembly approved its first-ever resolution on vision, calling on its 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries which would contribute to a global effort to help at least 1.1 billion people with vision impairment who currently lack eye services by 2030. The �Vision for Everyone� […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com You and a few others are listening to the repetition of the Shmoneh Esreh by the Shliach Tzibbur.� The guy next to you had just completed the Modim Derabanan.� You heard him finish it � �boruch kel hahodaos.� Do you respond with an Amain to his Modim or not? […]
The days of practicing law for the mob-busting prosecutor turned point man for pushing Donald Trump�s false claims about the 2020 election may be over. Rudy Giuliani�s law license has already been suspended in his home state. That suspension, in practice, may well amount to a national suspension. A New York appeals court took the […]
The 3,000 students on the residential campuses of the Vermont State Colleges will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the fall semester. The executive committee of the Vermont
Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real-time information on outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations
Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI�s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided �all relevant� ones to the White House counsel�s office. The FBI, responding to longstanding questions from Democrats, disclosed in a letter […]
President Joe Biden led the kind of campaign rally on Friday that was impossible last year because of the pandemic, speaking before nearly 3,000 people in support of a fellow moderate Democrat whose race for Virginia governor could serve as a test of Biden�s own strength and coattails. Biden motorcaded across the Potomac River to […]
OREGON – Out-of-state crews headed to Montana Saturday to battle a blaze that injured five firefighters as the West struggled with a series of fires that have ravaged rural lands and destroyed homes. Progress was being made on the nation�s largest blaze, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon, but additional mandatory evacuations were ordered Friday evening […]
Like other residents of his town in Germany, Wolfgang Huste knew a flood was coming. What nobody told him, he says, was how bad it would be. The 66-year-old antiquarian
CHARLTON, Mass. � Multiple lanes of Interstate 90 eastbound have been shut down in Charlton after debris from an overpass fell onto the roadway on Saturday, according to Massachusetts State Police. Eastbound traffic was backed up for five miles Saturday morning after lanes were closed to repair the Center Depot Road overpass, police said in […]
A dispute has arisen between members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his long-time partner Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, over the “Netanyahu Law,” a law that would
Following reports last week that Texas and Florida are considering divesting from Unilever due to Ben & Jerry’s boycott against Israel, the states of New York, New Jersey and Illinois
Firefighters on Friday declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous
Police shot and wounded a man who, officers said, swung a metal pipe at them after behaving erratically and bolting from an ambulance. The man was undergoing surgery early Saturday and was in stable condition, Deputy Chief Charles McEvoy told reporters. Police haven�t released the names of the man or the officers, who were taken […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com FEELING BOTH EMOTIONS The Yalkut Shimoni (815) explains that Moshe Rabbeinu did not think that Hashem would accede to his request.� Rather, he tried to magnify his sense of pain and agony in not entering Eretz Yisroel. The Midrash cites a parable from a king that commanded one of […]
Richmond County District Attorney Michael McMahon announced Thursday that the conviction of a man who served 23 years for a 1996 murder will be vacated. The conviction of Grant Williams
A former police chief in Maryland and Virginia, J. Thomas Manger, is the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, congressional officials announced Thursday. Manger will take charge of the
A New York City police sergeant was charged Thursday with beating two handcuffed men after they lashed out at police � one spitting at officers, the other using racial slurs � in separate incidents in the last two years. Sgt. Phillip Wong, a supervisor in the bureau that patrols the city�s transit system, was caught […]
A day before the opening ceremony, Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine forfeited his place in the Tokyo Olympics rather than compete against Israeli judoka Tohar Butbul, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
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