Month August 2022
Facebook parent Meta says it has removed a network of accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group it banned in 2018. Meta said on Thursday that it recently uncovered and removed about 480 Facebook and Instagram accounts,… Continue Reading →
The Virtual Halacha Program is a new initiative for those that want to learn Halacha B’Iyun – an opportunity to learn Halacha and live Halacha from anywhere in the world. The program is designed to allow you to learn seriously… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 3:39 amMincha: 7:25 pm Mrs. Lauren EisenbergerDaughter R’ Dovid ZelingerSon Rabbi Shaul Aryeh ZelingerSon Rabbi Shaul Aryeh Zelinger will be sitting Shiva at his home in Lakewood, NJ on Sunday August 28th and getting up after… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Elul. And when Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbos – there is a fascinating yet unresolved halachic question. As a preface, we know that Rosh Chodesh is a special and… Continue Reading →
Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe. The move came a day after the… Continue Reading →
It was the kind of story that media reporter Brian Stelter would normally sink his teeth into — if only it didn’t involve him. CNN said last week it was cancelling “Reliable Sources,” its 30-year-old program on the media, and… Continue Reading →
The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism. More research is needed to see if the effect lasts and whether it works in a larger study…. Continue Reading →
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. The designation means that releases of long-lasting chemicals known as PFOA and… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is a great debate about our Yeshiva curriculums that is now raging in both Eretz Yisroel as well as in certain communities in the United States. The debate revolves around the following questions: … Continue Reading →
Download PDF for Shabbas Reading Back when my now-husband and I were still just dating, I was the first one to bring up shlichus. “Wow!” He said, “It’s exactly like the Rebbe said – the women are the initiators, leading… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is a great debate about our Yeshiva curriculums that is now raging in both Eretz Yisroel as well as in certain communities in the United States. The debate revolves around the following questions: … Continue Reading →
(JTA) — The hippy-ish, bearded Jewish bandmates who call themselves “Shlepping Nachas” came together in 2019 in Meron, a pilgrimage site in northern Israel where religious Jews gather to mark the holiday of Lag B’Omer. Three of them were friends… Continue Reading →
The prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the former president, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Sidney Powell…. Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – A dispute with a Jewish cemetery in Queens is inspiring unusual activism in New York’s Bukharian Jewish community. Leaders of the community, whose members immigrated from Central Asia, have held a rally and backed legislation demanding… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that many Americans can have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven. That amount increases to $20,000 if they qualified for Pell grants. Here’s what we know so far and what it means… Continue Reading →
The Justice Department on Friday released a partially blacked-out document explaining the justification for an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month, when agents removed top secret government records and other classified documents. The document, even in… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration. The Secret Service said an investigation initiated by its Orlando office found that… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Thursday (9/01/22)Morning Mrs. Fay LeviDaughter Mrs. Aliza AlbagliDaughter
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Are wolves hunting and howling in the Northeast woods again, more than a century after they were rooted out of the region? Advocates who think so say a recent DNA analysis shows a strapping canine shot… Continue Reading →
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few states quickly followed through. Idaho sold $300,000… Continue Reading →