Month March 2021

Daylight Saving Time in Israel begins Thursday night/Friday morning at 2 a.m. when clocks will be moved forward one hour. Israel will then be back to seven hours difference from… Read more » The post Daylight Saving Time Starts in… Continue Reading →

Health officials in India on Wednesday said a new “double mutant” coronavirus variant has been detected in the country, which is racing to vaccinate its population against a rising number of new COVID-19 cases. India’s Health Ministry said the U.K.,… Continue Reading →

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that cooperation between allies was more important than at any time in recent history and that relations with NATO and the European… Read more » The post Blinken: West Needs to Cooperate… Continue Reading →

The High Court ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must abide by conflict of interest rules laid out by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. Netanyahu has said he is not… Read more » The post High Court: Netanyahu Must Abide… Continue Reading →

Religious Zionist Party head Betzalel Smotrich on Thursday ruled out the possibility of establishing a right-wing government backed by the Islamist Ra’am party. Ra’am splintered from the Arab Joint List… Read more » The post Smotrich Rules Out Ra’am-Backed Coalition… Continue Reading →

He’d led allied armies in the defeat of Nazi Germany only to find himself, a decade later, a tad intimidated before the cameras in an echoey room of the Old Executive Office Building, ready to make history again. “Well, I… Continue Reading →

With the imminent arrival of Yom Tov, Chesed 24/7 is working around the clock to make sure Cholei Yisroel and their families will be taken care of in the hospital. Chesed 24/7 Hospitality Rooms have been scoured and outfitted with new oven warmers and… Continue Reading →

Israel has administered two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to more than half its population, the health minister said on Thursday, a world-beating rollout that has helped the country emerge from… Read more » The post More Than Half of Israelis… Continue Reading →

A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled, waiting for… Read more » The post Stuck Ship in Egypt’s Suez… Continue Reading →

AstraZeneca insists that its COVID-19 vaccine is strongly effective even after counting additional illnesses in its disputed U.S. study, the latest in an extraordinary public rift with American officials. In… Read more » The post AstraZeneca Confirms Strong Vaccine Protection… Continue Reading →

China will make efforts to safeguard the Iran nuclear deal and defend the legitimate interests of Sino-Iranian relations, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told a… Read more » The post China Says Will Safeguard Iran… Continue Reading →

Election officials continued counting absentee ballots on Thursday morning, with results still showing no clear path to a majority coalition for either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bloc or his opponents.… Read more » The post With Over 90% Tallied, Vote… Continue Reading →

President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border. Biden made the announcement as he and Harris met at the White House on Wednesday… Continue Reading →

A skyscraper-sized container ship has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged… Continue Reading →

Drone pictures show some of the damage from last week’s wildfire in Lakewood. The fire burned approximately 170 acres of land, and destroyed two office buildings. [TLS-D19]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The question was made famous by the author of the Mishkenos Yaakov, one of the greatest students of the Volozhin Yeshiva, Rabbi Yaakov Bruchin (1780-1844).  Rav Bruchin was the Rav of Karlin, was the… Continue Reading →

Max Stock, an Israeli chain of stores similar to Amazing Savings, recently received a barrage of customer complaints when the “Tehillim” they were selling turned out to be miniature English-language copies of the New Testament The Yad L’Achim organization was… Continue Reading →

UK Jews will not be legally allowed to celebrate Pesach Sedarim with extended family members this year, the second year in a row that Pesach will be celebrated during a lockdown. “It’s very painful for us,” Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis… Continue Reading →

We are pleased to present the JewishGen Passover Companion 2021/5781, which contains inspirational vignettes about how Passover was observed in various communities, along with first-hand accounts about the great effort and personal risk (Mesirat Nefesh) Jews took to observe Passover… Continue Reading →