Month December 2020

New York’s COVID hospitalizations have climbed above 7,000 and are now at their highest levels since May 10, as the State is poised to hit eclipse 30,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths this week. The state has reported at least 100 new… Continue Reading →

This morning, I passed by a Shul which had a Simcha in its hall over Shabbos, but what I saw really bothered me. Right outside the hall, there was a trash bin with a large bag of challahs inside, going… Continue Reading →

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com A number of people are aware of the controversy about an organization that started giving out COVID-19 vaccines to people other than the front-line health care workers.  Indeed, such prominent Poskim as Rabbi Herschel… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] Cash is always flying in one classroom of Yeshiva Ketana Torah Vodaas! One creative teacher awards fake money for completing assignments on time, good behavior, and of course, effort. The boys of the class had their eyes on Chanuka,… Continue Reading →

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak, on… Read more » The post China Jails Citizen-Journalist for Four… Continue Reading →

As Israel entered into its third lockdown on Sunday evening, the Knesset Education Committee approved a change to the lockdown conditions, allowing fifth through tenth graders to attend school. The original lockdown proposal called for only the younger grades and… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will hold a rally in Georgia in support of Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on Jan. 4, one day before the twin Senate runoff elections to determine which party controls the upper chamber. “On behalf… Continue Reading →

The Finance Ministry has signed a deal on cooperation in the fields of investment and finance with Morocco’s Finance and Economy Ministry. Chief Economist Shira Greenberg signed the agreement while… Read more » The post Israel, Morocco Sign First Economic… Continue Reading →

Global stock markets and U.S. futures rose Monday after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion economic aid package, helping to reduce uncertainty as governments re-impose travel and business curbs… Read more » The post Global Stocks Advance After Trump… Continue Reading →

The government last week unanimously approved the plan of Housing Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman to provide grants for the purchase of a secondhand apartment in the periphery. According to the… Read more » The post Rabbi Litzman’s Plan Approved: NIS… Continue Reading →

Britain on Monday urged businesses to prepare for Brexit, just days before a transition period designed to smooth the U.K.’s departure from the European Union comes to an end. Britain… Read more » The post With Just Days to Go,… Continue Reading →

An Israeli woman was hospitalized with moderate injuries over the weekend after she was attacked by a wild boar while on a hike with her family in northern Israel. Yael Pries, 48, was hiking with her family in the Ofer… Continue Reading →

Dozens of community leaders called on Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana to establish an external commission of inquiry to investigate the death of Ahuvya Sandak and the police’s procedures. Sandak,… Read more » The post Calls for External Inquiry Into… Continue Reading →

Israel continues to lead the international community in coronavirus vaccinations. A little over a week after the mass vaccination campaign began, close to 400,000 Israelis have already received the first… Read more » The post Israel Continues to Lead World… Continue Reading →

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Sunday his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, saying Israel’s efforts to prevent it from acquiring… Read more » The post Hezbollah Has Doubled Arsenal of… Continue Reading →

Democrats in the Congress on Monday will try to push through expanded $2,000 pandemic relief payments for Americans after President Donald Trump backed down from a fight with lawmakers that… Read more » The post After Trump Signs Stimulus Bill,… Continue Reading →

After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he would like to bring ties with Israel “to a better point,” former ambassador to Turkey Pini Avivi told Yisrael Hayom… Read more » The post Former Turkish Ambassador: Erdogan Does… Continue Reading →

A public transportation bus that left Modi’in Illit on Sunday evening and headed to Jerusalem caught fire and was quickly engulfed in smoke and flames while it was traveling. The passengers were all able to evacuate the bus quickly enough… Continue Reading →

Uğur Şahin, CEO of German biotech firm BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer in developing the coronavirus vaccine, said that the coronavirus will continue for the next ten years. Asked at a virtual press conference over the weekend whether he believes… Continue Reading →