Month September 2021
Last year, a yeshivah bochur from a known Litvish yeshivah in Bnei Brak was forced to daven b’yechidus on Yom Kippur due to exposure to COVID, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The bochur felt particularly distressed about the situation because he had… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Last year, no leaders came at all. This year will be quite different — sort of. With the coronavirus pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, leaders from more than 100 nations are heading… Continue Reading →
The FBI said two explosive devices recently found outside cellphone stores in northern Michigan are believed to be linked to letters found last month in the Upper Peninsula. The bombs, which were discovered and defused Thursday, were found in suspicious… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses. His pitch for greater global partnership comes at a… Continue Reading →
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. flew Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland Sunday and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signaled the beginning… Continue Reading →
Afghanistan’s last Jew, Zebulon Simentov, who was evacuated from Afghanistan earlier this month, signed a get for his wife in New York on Erev Yom Kippur. Moti Kahana, an Israeli-American businessman who runs a private security group that organized Simentov’s… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Senate’s parliamentarian said late Sunday, a crushing blow to what was the party’s clearest… Continue Reading →
Israeli security forces overnight Motzei Shabbos arrested the last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli prison two weeks ago. “The Yamam, Shin Bet and the Charuv Reconnaissance Unit entered the city of Jenin, and sealed off… Continue Reading →
Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men, the interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital said Sunday, detailing the latest restrictions on women by… Continue Reading →
Dr. Homayoun Sameyeh-Najafabadi, a pharmacologist and the representative of the Jewish community in Iranian parliament since 2020, said recently that there are 500 cases of mucormycosis, a life-threatening disease commonly known as the “black fungus,” in Iran. Speaking on state… Continue Reading →
Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said last week that Israel’s current coronavirus wave is worse than all the previous waves. Speaking via teleconference at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, Ash said that the current average… Continue Reading →
Every night in yet another house in Afghanistan’s capital, a U.S. green card-holding couple from California take turns sleeping, with one always awake to watch over their three young children so they can flee if they hear the footsteps of… Continue Reading →
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in their first contact since a major diplomatic crisis erupted between France and the United States over a submarine deal with Australia, an… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Below we find some rulings from Rav Elyashiv zatzal in regard to both the Sukkah as well as the 4 Minim. Each of the Yamim Tovim has its own special… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The Webster’s dictionary defines cat-napping as “a short period of sleep; a brief nap.” Is cat-napping outside of the Sukkah permitted on Sukkos? If so, how long may it last? There is a significant… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) —Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez submitted an amendment last week to the annual United States defense spending bill which would block the sale of precision-guided munitions to Israel. According to a statement released by her office Thursday, the… Continue Reading →
Senior Democrats said on Sunday that they will likely need to scale back President Joe Biden‘s $3.5 trillion social spending bill while passage of the linked bipartisan infrastructure bill may… Read more » The post Senior House Democrats Concede Likely… Continue Reading →
No serious injuries reported.
Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash said on Motzei Shabbos that unlike the past when most seriously ill coronavirus patients were older, there is now a growing number of seriously ill younger coronavirus patients aged 35 and above. According to… Continue Reading →