Month September 2020
5,238 new coronavirus cases were diagnosed on Thursday, the Health Ministry said Friday morning. The country’s death toll remains at 1,169 as no new deaths were reported. 577 patients are… Read more » The post 5,238 New Cases as Israel… Continue Reading →
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalization deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain… Read more » The post White House Says Five More… Continue Reading →
The Jewish community in South Africa is preparing for Yom Tov. Currently, all shuls in the country are open but minyanim are limited to 50 mispallelim. The heads of the kehilla and Beis Din in Johannesburg, in cooperation with medical… Continue Reading →
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Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch said this week that if the Israeli public chooses to ignore lockdown regulations that are going into effect on Friday, the health system situation will become so dire that “there will be dead people in… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 4,546 new coronavirus cases on Thursday morning. There are currently 45,488 active cases, with a record number of 579 seriously ill patients, of whom 140 are ventilated. Thirteen more deaths were recorded, raising the death toll… Continue Reading →
SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election. Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima,… Continue Reading →
It is the one greeting that has found its way into the codified minhagim of Klal Yisroel. The Ramah tells us (OC 582:9) that it is the custom, after Maariv of Rosh Hashana, for everyone to say to each other,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — One quarter of Jewish Israelis, and more than one-third of Jews who voted for Benjamin Netanyahu, believes the coronavirus was sent by God as a punishment or to send a message, according to an annual survey. The… Continue Reading →
The cost to subsidize one family is $250. Please help so we can subsidize 400 families this Yom Tov season. Sukkos. Zeman Simchaseinu. It’s one of the most joyous times of the year, anticipated by one and all, young and… Continue Reading →
The cost to subsidize one family is $250. Please help so we can subsidize 400 families this Yom Tov season. Sukkos. Zeman Simchaseinu. It’s one of the most joyous times of the year, anticipated by one and all, young and… Continue Reading →
Hundreds of cars and individuals lined up today at the Clifton Avenue Grade School and the Lakewood Middle School to receive weekday and weekend food boxes, whose distribution by the Lakewood Board of Education resumed today. The distribution of thousands… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump pressed his case Thursday that U.S. schools are indoctrinating children with a left-wing agenda hostile to the nation’s Founding Fathers, describing efforts to educate students about racism… Read more » The post Trump to Create Commission to… Continue Reading →
I recently received an email from a parent questioning my approach when discussing the pitfalls of miseducation, alluding that our Torah educational system is failing us. I would like to reiterate that these articles are intended to be informative for… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The gulf between President Donald Trump and public health officials over wearing face masks keeps widening, undercutting medical experts who say consistent face covering is one of the best tools — short of a vaccine — to… Continue Reading →
The frum community in Melbourne is facing an unprecedented situation not seen since World War II, a Rosh Hashanah without minyanim, a shuttered shul, and brand-new shul furniture which will remain unused. As YWN reported earlier this week, the frum… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Perhaps in one hundred years it will be known as “the Great Shofar Blowing Controversy of the COVID era.” This Rosh HaShana, there are many shuls that will be cutting the blasts to a minimum… Continue Reading →
After meeting with physicians and members of Hatzolah, it was decided that Harav Aharon Teitelbaum, shlita, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, will not be travelling to Williamsburg for Yom Kippur… Read more » The post Harav Aharon Teitelbaum, Shlita, Satmar… Continue Reading →
Russia is seeking to hurt Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign through social media and influence operations, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday. Moscow is carrying out efforts to sow discord in the U.S. “primarily to denigrate Vice President Biden and… Continue Reading →
A six-year old Chassidish boy in Maalot Dafna was playing on the porch of his third-floor apartment on Wednesday night when he suddenly ran into the house complaining of sharp pain in his back. His parents rushed him to Hadassah… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who also served on the White House coronavirus task force says President Donald Trump once suggested that COVID-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from… Continue Reading →