Month April 2019
Maximizing a home down payment can make sense: The bigger the down payment, the lower the monthly mortgage bill and the better the chance of building equity more quickly. But putting too much down could leave you without enough cash… Continue Reading →
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visited Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, Hagaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein and Hagaon HaRav Berel Povarsky in Bnei Brak on Wednesday, Chol Hamoed Pesach. Friedman asked the Ponovez Roshei Yeshiva to Daven for President Donald Trump…. Continue Reading →
The S&P 500 just hit an all-time high, recovering from last year’s dramatic plunge. The economy seems to be on fairly solid footing, still it’s anyone’s guess what happens next for the stock market. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Washington – President Donald Trump approved the payment of a $2 million bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in… Continue Reading →
Dr. Roberts, currently in Florida, gave TLS a recap on his Chop Hamoed carnival which attracted approximately 15,000 people yesterday in Lakewood.
Wilmington, DE – Former Vice President Joe Biden has dismissed a reporter’s question about why he wasn’t endorsed for 2020 by former President Barack Obama, who issued a statement calling his choice of Biden as a running mate in 2008… Continue Reading →
Thousands participated in the ‘Kabolas Pnei Rabbo’ event in the Jerusalem Arena Stadium, which included the members of the Shas Moetzas Chachmei HaTorah, headed by HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen Shlita. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The S&P 500 was flat on Thursday as gains in Facebook and Microsoft were overshadowed by 3M’s bleak quarterly report, which sparked concerns about slowing global growth. Shares of the… Read more » The post S&P 500 Flat as Losses… Continue Reading →
Federal agents raided the homes and offices of Baltimore’s embattled mayor on Thursday amid widening probes to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.… Read more » The post FBI, IRS Agents Search Baltimore… Continue Reading →
Washington – Joe Biden spent a hot August day at his lakefront Delaware home watching hatred on display in Charlottesville, Virginia, where, days earlier, torch-wielding white supremacists had marched through town. A counter-protester advocating racial equality was killed when a… Continue Reading →
Former Vice President Joe Biden, a moderate who has made his appeal to working-class voters who deserted the Democrats in 2016 a key part of his political identity, launched a… Read more » The post Biden Launches White House Bid… Continue Reading →
Several Republican elected officials are voicing their opposition to a proposal in the Democrat-controlled New York state Legislature to issue driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally. State Sen. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A chareidi family was rescued by the naval patrol after being caught in distress in their boat off the coast of Ashdod. The incident took place on Tuesday afternoon when Lachish naval police near Ashdod noticed a boat with people… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) The Talmud tells us that there is an obligation to greet one’s Rebbe on the Yom Tov (Rosh haShana 16b). Rav Yitzchok said: A person is obligated to visit his Master on the holiday… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – Israel’s Foreign Ministry says Israel will participate in next year’s World Expo hosted by the United Arab Emirates, in another sign of warming relations with Gulf Arab states. The ministry said Thursday it “looks forward to sharing our… Continue Reading →
Despondent, Akon Mathiong points to two small mounds of dirt where she buried her grandsons, 4 and 5 years old, last month. They died after contracting measles in one of the worst-hit areas of South Sudan’s latest outbreak. Read more… Continue Reading →
Chairman of the New Right party, Naftali Bennet, admitted in talks with individuals close to him that establishing his new party was a mistake. According to the report on Channel 20, Bennet said among other things, “We made a major… Continue Reading →
Los Angeles – A one-time Islamic jihadist who spent years in an Israeli prison for attempting to bomb a bus was granted US citizenship and allowed to remain in the country for nearly a decade as federal authorities investigated his… Continue Reading →
While many people were either getting ready for Yom Tov, or others planning their last short Chol Hamoed outings, dozens of members of Flatbush Shomrim were busy searching for a missing person – and made a tremendous Kiddush Hashem in… Continue Reading →
Baltimore, MD – Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday morning at two homes belonging to Baltimore’s embattled mayor and at City Hall. Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman out of the agency’s Baltimore office, says agents with the FBI and the… Continue Reading →