Month March 2020
“Safer at Home.” It’s a slogan of choice for the mandatory confinement measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. But it’s not true for everyone. As the world’s families hunker down, there’s another danger, less obvious but just… Continue Reading →
3 people have died in Israel due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus. Two people died on Tuesday, joining Arie Even, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who passed away on Friday due to complications with the virus. The second person to have died… Continue Reading →
A two-month-old preemie in Sha’arei Tzedek hospital who tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday had been misdiagnosed, a Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital spokesperson stated on Tuesday. Three additional tests were carried out, two by the Sha’arei Tzedek laboratory and one… Continue Reading →
Israel’s national airline El Al will be sending chartered flights to Bogota in Colombia in order to bring home 150 Israelis who are stranded in the South American country without a way to return home. The flight is expected to… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Three Torah giants – Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Shimon Galai, and Rav Yaakov Hillel – will meet on Wednesday for an extensive prayer gathering focused on the health & safety of the Jewish People. The rabbis will recite the Pitum… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a new daily ritual now that the pandemic has put the kibosh on the signature campaign rallies that helped him get elected four years ago: the coronavirus briefing. Standing on the once-abandoned White… Continue Reading →
The United States Surgeon General, the highest doctor in the land, has asked EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES to STAY HOME. He said this week this virus and its spread are going to get very bad because there are… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Rav Yitzchok Raitport is a renowned Tzaddik and Talmid Chochom who lives in the heart of Boro Park. He runs a Kollel Metzuyanim, has published over 37 seforim, and has funded over 180 Mikvaos… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) — The unemployment rate in Israel reached 18.6 percent on Tuesday with 91 percent of those now out of work being put on unpaid leave as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The nation’s unemployment rate before the virus… Continue Reading →
Recently, a group entitled Igud Chachmei HaMaarev B’Eretz Yisroel issued a ruling (publicized on Arutz Sheva) in regard to Zoom, the social media site, and discussed whether it can be used to conduct a Pesach seder on Yom Tov itself. … Continue Reading →
The guidelines were compiled by Rabbi Yosef Ginsberg of Toldos Yitzchok, and endorsed by other local rabbonim. You can download and print the pages here. [Photo by Argentum]
NEW YORK (AP) — A “cacophony of coughing” in packed emergency rooms. Beds squeezed in wherever there is space. Overworked, sleep-deprived doctors and nurses rationed to one face mask a day and wracked by worry about a dwindling number of… Continue Reading →
Police Chief Greg Meyer submitted the following letter to TLS: Since the onset of this outbreak, we have been living day to day listening to the news, advice from medical experts, rumors and pleas from local authorities. I have to… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump isn’t calling the new coronavirus the “Chinese virus” anymore. Trump had insisted on pointing out the virus’ Chinese origin in appearances over the past few weeks. Asians have said the term is offensive and has… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman (a joint VINNEWS and 5TJT.com project) Many of us are painfully missing the fact that we should not be davening with a minyan anymore. So here is, perhaps, an innovative way of doing it Rav Aharon… Continue Reading →
New York City Department of Transportation announced that alternate side of the street parking rules will be suspended from Wednesday, March 25 through Tuesday, March 31. Meters will remain in… Read more » The post Alternate Side Rules Remain Suspended… Continue Reading →
Wake up at 6:30 a.m. Priority is making a big pot of coffee for the whole day, because the place by the hospital is closed. The Starbucks, too. It’s all… Read more » The post OPINION: A Day in the… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has reported what may be the first confirmed U.S. death of a child from coronavirus. Health officials say the youth lived in the Mojave Desert city of Lancaster located north of Los Angeles. County… Continue Reading →
The woman in charge of the U.S. response to the coronavirus says everyone leaving the New York metro area should self-quarantine for 14 days. Deborah Birx said at a White… Read more » The post Last 1 Out of New… Continue Reading →
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Governors across the nation on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s new accelerated timeline for reopening the U.S. economy, as they continued to impose more restrictions on travel and public life in an attempt to curb the… Continue Reading →
Submitted: I know many of you are stuck inside with the kids all day. To help entertain the younger set, here are links to audio of me reading a number of well-known children’s books. Enjoy, and I hope this helps…. Continue Reading →