Month April 2023
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Everyone grew up with it. It signifies the end of the Pesach Seder. And every family has it’s own tune to it. Father bought the kid (a sheep or goat)… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Everyone grew up with it. It signifies the end of the Pesach Seder. And every family has it’s own tune to it. Father bought the kid (a sheep or goat)… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Everyone grew up with it. It signifies the end of the Pesach Seder. And every family has it’s own tune to it. Father bought the kid (a sheep or goat)… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com A NEW METHOD OF COUNTING SEFIRA ACCORDING TO RAV AHARON KOTLER Written in honor of the author’s new twin granddaughters, Esther and Sara Hoffman ****Only $5700 left for this Maos Chittim cause – an… Continue Reading →
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time critic of former President Donald Trump, predicted Tuesday that the “thin” case of falsifying business records would be dismissed, The Daily Caller reports. “I’m extraordinarily distressed by this document,” Bolton told CNN… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected as Chicago’s next mayor Tuesday in a major victory for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing as the heavily blue city grapples with high crime and financial challenges…. Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The head of a match is made of sulfur, glass powder, phosphorus and an oxidizing agent. When the match is struck on Yom Tov two things happen: • The first thing that happens is… Continue Reading →
Serves 6-8 1 lb. red or Yukon Gold potatoes ½ cup red wine ¼ cup oil ¾ teaspoon salt Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Cut the potatoes into 1-inch pieces (peeled… Continue Reading →
For Rebbetzin Chana Davis, it was a small decision that changed the course of her life. “I was born in England,” she begins. “My father, Rav Eliezer Yehuda Leib Tarshish, zt”l, was from Lita. As a bachur, he had… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com On Wednesday, we will all be making an Eiruv Tavshilim. Generally speaking, we use an egg and a Matzah for an Eruv Tavshillin. But should we? Whatever happened to Hidur Mitzvah – doing a… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com On Wednesday, we will all be making an Eiruv Tavshilim. Generally speaking, we use an egg and a Matzah for an Eruv Tavshillin. But should we? Whatever happened to Hidur Mitzvah – doing a… Continue Reading →
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday called Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to offer Pesach greetings ahead of the Yom Tov. The UAE leader wished Netanyahu and the Israeli people a happy Pesach. In… Continue Reading →
One of the leading rabbanim and poskim in Bnei Brak is Rav Shmuel Eliezer Stern, who is warmly hosting me on a rather mild Monday evening, the week after Purim, in his home. Born in Budapest, Hungary, three years after… Continue Reading →
One of the leading rebbes of Europe today is the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of London, Rav Dovid Hager, shlita. Based in the Stamford Hill area, which boasts the largest concentration of chasidic Jews in Europe, he leads a sizable kehillah known… Continue Reading →
An introduction is supposed to encapsulate and provide a brief overview of the subject. In my introductions for this column, I try to do just that, giving the reader a taste of what’s to come. In the case of Rabbi… Continue Reading →
Rosh Chodesh Nisan would seem a propitious time for a kiddush Hashem. And one occurred this year, when a large group of Israeli anti-government protesters, mostly secular citizens aiming to “get in the face” of religious Jews, descended on Bnei… Continue Reading →
The Anti-Defamation League announced plans to open a satellite office in Brooklyn, N.Y., which its CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt calls one of the “epicenters for antisemitism in this country.” Of more than 395 antisemitic incidents that the ADL… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Ramadan month has been a focal point for increased terror incidents in Israel and abroad in recent years. Shin Bet director Ronen Bar warned Sunday that the security agency is dealing with an unprecedented number of… Continue Reading →
Undercover Border Guard officers and IDF forces entered Shechem on Monday morning and surrounded the home of terrorists suspected of perpetrating the terror attack in Huwara over a week ago, in which two IDF soldiers were injured, one seriously. A… Continue Reading →
A Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the lone suspect in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue will go on trial Monday, nearly 43 years after four people were killed and 46 wounded in the unclaimed attack. French authorities identified Hassan… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Malka Leifer, the former principal of a chareidi Jewish school in Melbourne, has been found guilty of sexually abusing two former students after a 15-year campaign for her to face justice. After a six-week trial in… Continue Reading →