Month April 2020
[Public Notice] Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of the Lakewood Township school district, in the County of Ocean, of the State of New Jersey, that a Public Board Meeting will be held live-streamed through the District Website:… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP) During the 1970s when I was growing up in Southern California, the air was so polluted that I was regularly sent home from high school to “shelter in place.” There might not seem to be much… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged 14.4% in March, the second-biggest decline on record. The worse-than-expected slide underscored the severity of the economic impact from the pandemic. New orders for commercial airlines actually went negative as cancellations… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Rav Zalman Hillel was a Brilliant Ben Torah and Mechaber Sefarim The Lakewood community has lost a great talmid chochom with the petirah of Rav Zalman Hillel Fendel zt”l. Rav Zalman Hillel was a brilliant ben Torah and mechaber… Continue Reading →
Hi, my name is Yehoshua Eidlitz, I am a resident of Lakewood, New Jersey. Like many of you, due to the coronavirus outbreak, I am currently unemployed, being that my business is not deemed essential. It pains me, as I… Continue Reading →
The White House on Thursday pitched “emerging” research on the benefits of sunlight and humidity in diminishing the threat of the coronavirus as President Donald Trump encourages states to move to reopen their economies. Past studies have not found good… Continue Reading →
Please help give our father a proper burial beside his Rebbe ר׳ דוד משה זצ״קל from Kretshnif in Rechovot. Before he moved to Brooklyn around 30 years ago, our father, Rabbi Yisroel Menachem Rosenberg was the Gabbai and right-hand man… Continue Reading →
As is well known, the time to begin saying Kiddush Levana depends on the time of the Molad. Based on when the Molad is, we wait a certain number of days before we may begin saying Kiddush Levana. How long… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) Yes, there is a special segulah for this Shabbos, where we can get special additions from shamayim into our lives. Who wouldn’t want to do this over Corona? This is a segulah for Chassidim,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s becoming a kind of daily ritual: President Donald Trump and a phalanx of doctors file into the White House briefing room each evening to discuss the coronavirus, producing a display of rhetorical contortions as the medical… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has caught the Chareidi public in Israel unawares. Until this point a large proportion of the public shunned the internet and found other sources for their information. The Chareidi print media… Continue Reading →
Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv began implementing a faster method of testing for Covid-19 Coronavirus. By utilizing the new test, patients can have their results in less than 90 minutes. Dr. Chanoch Goldschmidt, head of the Laboratory Department in Ichilov… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is reminding people to only use disinfectant on surfaces. The EPA issued the update after President Donald Trump suggested it might be helpful to inject disinfectant to combat the coronavirus. The EPA says, “Never… Continue Reading →
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After the Israeli health ministry refused to allow yeshivos to open in any format, the leaders of the Lithuanian community published a letter for all yeshiva and kollel students announcing the opening of the summer zman… Continue Reading →
A frightening incident occurred in the normally quiet neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on Wednesday evening, when two sisters, 15 and 17, went for a walk on their street. As they were walking, two vehicles suddenly drove straight in their direction,… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces the biggest conundrum of his premiership as he recuperates from COVID-19: how to lift a lockdown that is destroying swaths of the British economy –… Read more » The post U.K.’s Johnson, on the Mend… Continue Reading →
The Blue and White Party on Friday morning signed a coalition deal with the Labor Party, after Blue and White had signed earlier in the week with the Likud. According… Read more » The post Blue and White, Labor Sign… Continue Reading →
The Health Ministry on Friday reported that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases stands at 14,882. The death toll stands at 193 people. 139 patients are listed in serious condition,… Read more » The post Israel’s Death Toll at 193;… Continue Reading →
The post Tefillos at Kever of Rabi Yehudah Bar Ilai on Erev Rosh Chodesh appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Tefillos at Kever HaShelah in Teveria on Erev Rosh Chodesh Tefillos in Meron on Erev Rosh Chodesh Tefillos on… Continue Reading →
From Asia to Africa, London to Berlin, Chinese envoys have set off diplomatic firestorms with a combative defense whenever their country is accused of not acting quickly enough to stem… Read more » The post China’s Diplomats Show Teeth in… Continue Reading →