Month March 2021
Reviewed by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Yaakov Forchherimer shlita, one of the senior Poskim in Lakewood, New Jersey, has just released a remarkable responsa Sefer entitled, “Orech Yaakov” on the Orech Chaim and Choshain Mishpat sections of Shulchan… Continue Reading →
An active shooter was holed up inside of a supermarket in Colorado for over half an hour early Monday evening. Eyewitnesses on the scene filmed the apparent mass shooting over the course of the attack from the beginning. “Active Shooter… Continue Reading →
Upon receiving a Covid-19 vaccination, vaccinated individuals receive a small card that confirms when they were administered the shot. Governor Murphy is saying that those cards should be kept, as he is considering having them used as “vaccine passports” to… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s Cabinet is nearly complete with the expected confirmation of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on Monday. But the work of building his administration is just beginning, as Biden has hundreds of key presidential appointments to… Continue Reading →
A congressional effort to bolster U.S. news organizations in negotiations with Big Tech has supporters hoping that third time’s the charm. The bill, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, was introduced in March for the third time since 2018. Its… Continue Reading →
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say they are responding to an active shooter at a supermarket. It’s unclear if anyone has been injured. Police in Boulder tweeted Monday that the shooter is at a King Soopers grocery store…. Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Looking back, it’s been a long year. A year of tension and uncertainty, of school closures and lockdowns. All over the world, people are grappling with a new reality – life in the midst of Covid-19. In Eretz Yisrael,… Continue Reading →
Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister after he returned to Ramallah from a trip to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed. A Palestinian official said Foreign Minister Riad… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Do you think the Stimulus Checks right before Pesach are a good idea? Will it make taxes go up? Should people be relying on the government so much? Will it really help the economy? Well, no matter your political… Continue Reading →
While most kids complain that there is nothing to eat on Pesach, I think it is fair to say that most people have plenty of food and cake to eat over Yom Tov. However, anyone with an allergic child begins… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Pesach is coming! Now who doesn’t know that? With all of us shopping and scrubbing, mopping and cooking, you bet Pesach is around the corner. And at one point amidst all that cleaning and preparing, comes the ‘K word…. Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rav Yaakov Forchherimer shlita, one of the senior Poskim in Lakewood, New Jersey, has just released a remarkable responsa Sefer entitled, “Orech Yaakov” on the Orech Chaim and Choshain Mishpat sections of Shulchan… Continue Reading →
RECHNITZ MEGA-CHESED: Shlomo Yehuda Donates Millions For Mir Avreichim And Other Families For Pesach
Due to the difficult financial situation in the Torah world, Yeshivas Mir of Jerusalem has been delayed in paying the stipends of its avreichim, and only recently transferred the stipend for the month of Kislev. But now, the financial straits… Continue Reading →
A New York City police officer who’s been arrested twice for alleged brutality was arrested again Sunday after police on Long Island say he fired a pistol into the Atlantic Ocean while off duty. David Afanador, 39, was carrying a… Continue Reading →
Israeli officials have intercepted a cache of gold headed for Gaza, hidden in an ordinary shipment of tomatoes. The Defense Ministry said their agents thwarted on Monday an attempted smuggling… Read more » The post Gold Smuggling Thwarted at Crossing… Continue Reading →
Google is “doubling down” on its chip making, and the doubling down will be in Israel, Globes said on Monday. Google announced the appointment of Uri Frank as VP engineering… Read more » The post Google Chip Design Team Coming… Continue Reading →
In response to the racist photo caption published in the Asbury Park Press, the Lakewood Township is cutting ties with the paper, TLS has learned. The word came moments ago, as pressure mounts against the paper from local and State… Continue Reading →
In the Har Tuv industrial zone, located near the city of Beit Shemesh, police uncovered two storage units that were being used as an incubation laboratory to grow cannabis. Police officers who raided the storage units as part of a… Continue Reading →
On federal death row, prisoners fling notes on a string under each other’s cell doors and converse through interconnected air ducts. A top issue these days: whether President Joe Biden will halt executions, several told The Associated Press. Biden hasn’t… Continue Reading →