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Governor Hochul Announces $2.6 Million In Funding For The Holocaust Survivors Initiative

Governor Hochul Announces $2.6 Million In Funding For The Holocaust Survivors Initiative

BORO PARK — Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $2.6 million in funding provided by the FY 2023 Enacted Budget to support the Holocaust Survivors Initiative. This funding, to be… Read More ›

Holocaust Remembrance Day is not only about the dead, but also the living

Holocaust Remembrance Day is not only about the dead, but also the living

Opinion: Israel must begin taking better care of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, but cannot live out the rest of their lives… Read More ›

OPEN LETTER: The Case For Allowing Our Boys To Marry At A Younger Age

OPEN LETTER: The Case For Allowing Our Boys To Marry At A Younger Age

NEW YORK — Dear Reader,  When speaking out to those close to me, I just get ridiculed. I am seen as an immature little boy… Read More ›

Inflation Drives Up Passover Food Prices For US Jews

Inflation Drives Up Passover Food Prices For US Jews

  NEW YORK (AP) — Shopping for Passover on a recent day at a kosher supermarket in the Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood,… Read More ›

80 years after being told she had a future, this Jewish singer is getting recognized

80 years after being told she had a future, this Jewish singer is getting recognized

Madeline Forman quit her nascent musical career to help sustain her Russian immigrant family in New Jersey. Now, experts are lauding her long-buried recordings  … Read More ›

May a Pesach Group Forbid Others From Their Minyan??

May a Pesach Group Forbid Others From Their Minyan??

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is estimated that in the 2022 Pesach season there are over 80,000 in Orlando alone. There are more… Read More ›

How Matzah and the Teshuvas HaRashba Miraculously Saved Yidden from Terrorism

How Matzah and the Teshuvas HaRashba Miraculously Saved Yidden from Terrorism

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yes, it is true. Six Hamas terrorist were killed and 7 were foiled because of Matzah and a Teshuvas… Read More ›

Noam Chomsky says Ukraine should settle with Russia

Noam Chomsky says Ukraine should settle with Russia

Chomsky, who originally made his name in the field of linguistics, has been known for his anti-war, anti-capitalist, and – perhaps most prominently – anti-zionist… Read More ›

Russians flee Putin regime to join Ukraine refugees in Israel

Russians flee Putin regime to join Ukraine refugees in Israel

Young, middle class Russians, some having expressed criticism of the government say remaining in Russian can eventually lead to their arrest; arriving under Law of… Read More ›

Cops enter Temple Mount to clear obstructers as Palestinians hurl rocks at buses

Cops enter Temple Mount to clear obstructers as Palestinians hurl rocks at buses

7 wounded after rocks shatter windows of buses near Jerusalem’s Old City; 17 wounded, 9 narrested as police clear way for Jewish worshipers atop holy… Read More ›

Despite the danger, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders

Despite the danger, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders

The threat of violence, curfews and supply-chain disruptions are complicating the holiday efforts, but thousands still plan to partake in festivities   JTA — Between… Read More ›

Flatbush Parent Donates $300,000 To Teachers From His Daughter’s School Ahead Of Yom Tov

Flatbush Parent Donates $300,000 To Teachers From His Daughter’s School Ahead Of Yom Tov

FLATBUSH — There has been a lot of buzz lately about Rebbe and teacher salaries being not sufficient. Well one donor decided to take matters… Read More ›

Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark former leader’s 120th birthday

Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark former leader’s 120th birthday

After street parties, Hasidic movement’s emissaries fan out across NYC in ‘mitzvah tanks’ to give out matzah as part of festivities memorializing Rabbi Menachem Mendel… Read More ›

YAAKOV M: Tuesday’s Mass Shooting is More Proof that Jews Need to Vote Republican

YAAKOV M: Tuesday’s Mass Shooting is More Proof that Jews Need to Vote Republican

The subway attack this week could have been prevented. Not by tougher gun laws, but by locking up repeat criminals and keeping them behind bars.… Read More ›

Israel’s Arabs don’t have to wave Israeli flag, as long as they don’t wave Palestinian one

Israel’s Arabs don’t have to wave Israeli flag, as long as they don’t wave Palestinian one

Opinion: Israeli Arabs and Bedouins must understand that they are more than welcome to live in the Jewish state, with all the benefits that come… Read More ›

Republican senators write bill to prohibit Amnesty from receiving funds

Republican senators write bill to prohibit Amnesty from receiving funds

“Israel is such an important ally to the United States, and an organization that uses its platform to undermine their sovereignty should not be receiving… Read More ›

Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva Blasts Those Who Travel Late On Friday, Forcing Drivers To Desecrate Shabbos

Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva Blasts Those Who Travel Late On Friday, Forcing Drivers To Desecrate Shabbos

JERUSALEM — Rabbi Dov Landau, the head of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, criticized those who travel on public transport late on Fridays and… Read More ›

Interview: Rabbi who fled Moscow: ‘Jewish life in Russia as I knew it was coming to an end’

Interview: Rabbi who fled Moscow: ‘Jewish life in Russia as I knew it was coming to an end’

After war in Ukraine broke out, Motl Gordon moved to Israel where he’s working with Russian-speaking Jews ‘as they are’ to nurture a vision of… Read More ›

Chabad Shliach Threatened In New York City: “I’m Gonna Blow Your Head Off” (VIDEO)

Chabad Shliach Threatened In New York City: “I’m Gonna Blow Your Head Off” (VIDEO)

SOHO — A video shared on twitter by Newsmax columnist Bryan Leib, shows a shirtless man threatening a Chabad Shliach in Soho this past Friday.… Read More ›

Palestinians vandalize West Bank shrine, drawing Israeli condemnations

Palestinians vandalize West Bank shrine, drawing Israeli condemnations

Gantz says attack on Joseph’s Tomb, apparently by Palestinian rioters, is ‘grave event’ and damage will be repaired immediately; Lapid: It’s attacking the heart of… Read More ›