When Rena Schreier started at Lander College of Arts and Sciences Flatbush Women’s Division, after spending a year at Machon Raaya seminary in Israel, she expected to find large lecture

Republicans on Wednesday pushed a resolution through the Kansas House expressing the state’s solidarity with Israel and condemning Hamas terrorists after an 11-day war this month in the Gaza Strip. The House voted 83-27 in favor of the resolution, which will be sent to Israeli government representatives in the U.S. It inspired a brief but […]

Israel’s top diplomat to the United Arab Emirates attended a ceremony in Dubai on the grounds of the Arabian Peninsula’s first permanent exhibition to commemorate the Holocaust. Hours earlier, he’d attended an event establishing a joint venture between an Israeli and Emirati company. The receptions on Monday were the clearest indication since a cease-fire in […]

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar told journalists on Wednesday that he’d rather be eliminated by Israel than die of an illness. “The greatest gift Israel can give me is to assassinate

The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us to a place where with G-d’s continued help and blessing we can hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. But the worst seems to lie squarely ahead of India, and […]

Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed five administrative orders on Monday for the seizure of contraband material that was being smuggled into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing in

How many times have we heard Senator Schumer say he’s the Shomer Yisroel? Yet in the last week as Israel and Jews around the world are under attack Senator Schumer

A tourist from New York was knocked to the ground along the Las Vegas Strip in broad daylight, Monday. Paul Lebowitz, a NYC EMT, said he was clearly targeted for

Every investment in Shabbos gets remunerated in the bracha that only Shabbos can bestow on the rest of the week. Join R’ Pinches Friedman as he shares the deep reasoning

On May 18, dozens of Arabs approached a table where four men were sitting at the Sushi Fumi restaurant in LA and asked “Who’s Jewish?” before violently attacking them, throwing

A federal judge struck down a 2016 Georgia state law banning state contracts with businesses or organizations supporting the BDS movement. District Court Judge Mark Cohen ruled that that the ban is unconstitutional. “The requirement … that parties seeking to contract with the state of Georgia sign a certification that they are not engaged in […]

Tzemach Dovid, a “shul” and “Beis Medrash” in the Bram Center in the heart of downtown Jerusalem is actually a missionary training center with teachers dressed as Orthodox Jews, teaching

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is known as the Muktzah Book versus the New Igros Moshe Debate.  The former was published by Rabbi Pinchos Bodner from Lakewood, and the New Igros Moshe of Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l was published by editors after Rav Feinstein zt”l was niftar. But we jump ahead of ourselves. […]

Eitan Biran, 5, the only survivor of the cable car disaster in Italy woke up from his coma on Wednesday with his aunt Aya and one of his doctors by

Last month, the Kirschbaum family’s suffering was on the lips of nearly every Jew in the world, as they mourned the loss of their teenage son. Nachman (15) was crushed

Following an op-ed published by the YWN Editorial Board blasting the reckless actions of an anonymous organizer, a pro-Israel car rally which was scheduled for Thursday in the heart of

The Biden administration approved the sale of advanced precision-guided missiles to Israel, bypassing attempts of progressive Democrats to block it, Jewish Currents reported on Tuesday. The State Department granted an

Major Israeli news outlets Tuesday called on Facebook and Twitter to halt what they said were social media posts inciting violence against journalists after a rash of attacks and death threats targeting reporters. In letters sent to the social media giants, over a dozen newspapers, websites, TV and radio stations said “journalists have become a […]

A “pro-Israel” rally scheduled for Flatbush this Thursday has the potential to have serious implications for the local Jewish community in Flatbush and elsewhere. The rally was announced by an

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced plans to reopen a key diplomatic outreach office to the Palestinians and pledged nearly $40 million in new aid — reversing key policies of the Trump administration as he moved to bolster the embattled Palestinian government in the West Bank. On his first official visit to the […]

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