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Zelensky to Sharansky: Israel is one of few countries that can help defend our skies

Zelensky to Sharansky: Israel is one of few countries that can help defend our skies

Ukraine’s president meets members of Babyn Yar memorial board in Kyiv, pledges governments support for expansion of museum   Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met with… Read More ›

Learn Tzedakah Like You Never Did Before:  Kovaitz Psakim of Rav Forcheimer shlita and More

Learn Tzedakah Like You Never Did Before: Kovaitz Psakim of Rav Forcheimer shlita and More

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com PROBLEM:  For some reason, practical seforim on Tzedakah halachos and rulings are few and far between.  RESOLUTION:  With the… Read More ›

Judges, ministers, now army chief: Settlers rise in Israel

Judges, ministers, now army chief: Settlers rise in Israel

Critics say Israelis give little thought to their government’s rule over West Bank, and media often ignores approvals of new settlement constructions, while pushback against… Read More ›

Chilul Hashem – the Gravity of it and the 1:12 MB Solution

Chilul Hashem – the Gravity of it and the 1:12 MB Solution

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is no need to get into the gory details, but we are on the precipice of a clear… Read More ›

Smotrich: Netanyahu ‘lying through his teeth,’ was desperate to ally with Ra’am

Smotrich: Netanyahu ‘lying through his teeth,’ was desperate to ally with Ra’am

In recording, Religious Zionism chief says former PM is ‘trouble’ and may yet be found guilty in trial; wants any benefits to Arab public to… Read More ›

20-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Stabbed, Seriously Injured In Jerusalem Park; Terrorist Neutralized

20-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Stabbed, Seriously Injured In Jerusalem Park; Terrorist Neutralized

JERUSALEM — In a shocking terror attack demonstrating the worrying security escalation in Israel, a 16-year-old Arab stabbed a Jewish yeshiva student in a Jerusalem… Read More ›

Hitler truck ad, meant to bash alleged Berkeley ‘Jew-free zones,’ draws fire instead

Hitler truck ad, meant to bash alleged Berkeley ‘Jew-free zones,’ draws fire instead

Provocative effort by Accuracy in Media, aimed at law school groups that banned Zionist speakers, slammed for trivializing memory of Holocaust victims, as debate continues… Read More ›

Ben Shapiro Responds…

Ben Shapiro Responds…

FLORIDA (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Thursday, Ben Shapiro responded to comments made by a prominent leftist Jew, wishing for him to be “gassed” by… Read More ›

Is Trump antisemitic? Netanyahu doesn’t think so

Is Trump antisemitic? Netanyahu doesn’t think so

“He has a Jewish son-in-law and his daughter converted to Judaism and his grandchildren were raised as Jews, I don’t think so,” Netanyahu said days… Read More ›

OP-ED: Chareidim Can Blame Themselves If Another Leftist Government Is Formed In Israel

OP-ED: Chareidim Can Blame Themselves If Another Leftist Government Is Formed In Israel

JERUSALEM — The last three years have seen tremendous turmoil within the Israeli political system, with four inconclusive elections taking place and another election due… Read More ›

White House blasts Trump for antisemitic comments

White House blasts Trump for antisemitic comments

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Trump comments insulting to Jews and U.S. Israeli allies but adds former president has over years allied himself to extremists… Read More ›

With Far-right Leaders, Italy Remembers WWII Roundup Of Jews

With Far-right Leaders, Italy Remembers WWII Roundup Of Jews

  ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right political leadership marked the 79th anniversary of the World War II roundup of Rome’s Jews on Sunday with calls… Read More ›

Swedish Party Official Suspended After Anne Frank Posting

Swedish Party Official Suspended After Anne Frank Posting

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Sweden Democrats official was suspended by the far-right party for making degrading comments about Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank. In an… Read More ›

The Sukkah, the Migraine and the Bracha

The Sukkah, the Migraine and the Bracha

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is an interesting question. The family in question had guests coming on Chol HaMoed from Lakewood for a… Read More ›

Heavy clashes seen across East Jerusalem amid surging Palestinian unrest

Heavy clashes seen across East Jerusalem amid surging Palestinian unrest

Two cops injured; car with Jewish family forced to flee after stoned; footage shows hail of fireworks and police car surrounded by flames as fighting… Read More ›

State Official Orders City To Enforce Secular Education At Brooklyn Yeshiva

State Official Orders City To Enforce Secular Education At Brooklyn Yeshiva

  BROOKLYN (JTA) — New York State’s commissioner of education has ordered the city to work with a yeshiva in Williamsburg on a plan for… Read More ›

The Jump Commercial That Took Over Israel – a Halachic Analysis

The Jump Commercial That Took Over Israel – a Halachic Analysis

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is a hit commercial both for the Haredi community as well as the secular community in Israel.  A… Read More ›

The duality of the holiday of Sukkot

The duality of the holiday of Sukkot

Opinion: Sukkot, on the one hand, is a festival celebrating our people’s wandering the desert while living in flimsy booths; on the other hand, it… Read More ›

Biden Administration Expands Penalties For Complying With Arab League Boycott Of Israel

Biden Administration Expands Penalties For Complying With Arab League Boycott Of Israel

  WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration will enhance penalties for compliance with the decades-old Arab League boycott of Israel, at a moment when some… Read More ›

Kanye West’s social media accounts restricted after alleged antisemitism posts

Kanye West’s social media accounts restricted after alleged antisemitism posts

Kanye West’s Instagram and Twitter accounts were restricted due to his posts that online users condemned as antisemitic.   Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts… Read More ›