Month May 2023

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Chatting with a mom in a New Hampshire diner on Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid no attention to the Mickey Mouse shirt worn by her young son. But the woman said she has been paying… Continue Reading →

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Chatting with a mom in a New Hampshire diner on Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid no attention to the Mickey Mouse shirt worn by her young son. But the woman said she has been paying… Continue Reading →

President Joe Biden’s presence at the G-7 Summit sparked concerns over his mental acuity, as reported by the New York Post. On Friday, he appeared disoriented and had to rely on Japan’s leader, Fumio Kishida, for guidance, which culminated in… Continue Reading →

An Op-ed By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com What would have happened if CNN’s chief international anchor, Christaine Amanpour, would have reported that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in a “shootout?” Join me.  Join me for an exercise…. Continue Reading →

Apple Inc. has cracked down on employee use of ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence tools over concerns of confidential data leaks, according to The Wall Street Journal. Citing a document and sources familiar with the matter, the newspaper reported… Continue Reading →

The earliest recorded use of the term “shootout”—defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a sustained exchange of shooting, a gun-fight”—comes from a 1953 New York Times article, which refers to a “justly famous shoot-out between the Earps and the Clantons… Continue Reading →

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The American Civil War (1861 –1865) pitted brother against brother.  The real issue that they fought about was whether to allow or forbid the new territories in the west to become slave states.  The… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for $38 million in New York on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew… Continue Reading →

(JNS) — After many months of deliberations, Adidas has now decided to sell its remaining $1 billion worth of shoes and clothing from its partnership with “Ye,” formerly Kanye West, which concluded last fall after the rapper’s series of antisemitic… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] The ATIME Live Auction hosted by Naomi Nachman. Winners will be called live at 12AM Sharp.ATIME is devoted to assisting childless Jewish couples yearning for a baby of their own. We turn sighs of distress into sighs of contentment,… Continue Reading →

Someone forgot his receipt. A financial record from two millennia ago was uncovered on what was Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare during the Second Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The inscription on the small stone tablet found on Pilgrimage… Continue Reading →

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has offered Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two daughters in a Palestinian terrorist attack, to become a special envoy to Jewish communities worldwide. Lucy Dee, 48, Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The judicial reforms proposed in Israel have served as a convenient excuse to attack chareidim, who are perceived as supporters and beneficiaries of such moves. However the current budgetary allocations have stoked the fuel of the anti-chareidi… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The judicial reforms proposed in Israel have served as a convenient excuse to attack chareidim, who are perceived as supporters and beneficiaries of such moves. However the current budgetary allocations have stoked the fuel of the anti-chareidi… Continue Reading →

Last Sunday, on May 7, the main shul of the Antwerp Orthodox Jewish community, Machsike Hadass, was inaugurated in the presence of Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo as well as Bart De Wever, the mayor of Antwerp. Built over… Continue Reading →

When I sent my 13-year-old daughter off to summer camp for the first time, she went to a wonderful place. I had heard so many good things about it that I was sure she’d come home bubbling with happy memories…. Continue Reading →

Yield: 12-15 bites   Spinach cheese bites: 1 (24-oz.) bag frozen spinach 1 tablespoon oil 1 tablespoon butter 1 small onion, finely diced 6 cloves garlic, minced 1 heaping tablespoon flour Salt, to taste Black pepper, to taste 2 heaping… Continue Reading →

Yield: 12-15 bites   Spinach cheese bites: 1 (24-oz.) bag frozen spinach 1 tablespoon oil 1 tablespoon butter 1 small onion, finely diced 6 cloves garlic, minced 1 heaping tablespoon flour Salt, to taste Black pepper, to taste 2 heaping… Continue Reading →

Shmuel (Shmulik) Halperin is a businessman with an agenda: Daf Yomi Mishnayos—yes, Mishnayos. Shmulik is the son of famed Israeli entrepreneur Refael Halperin, the founder of Optica Halperin, the largest chain of glasses stores in Israel. After spearheading the effort… Continue Reading →