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Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar

Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in ignorance close to site of Holocaust massacre. Now he’s creating 24 short films about the history — and its… Read More ›

Chizuk For People in Chinuch From HaGaon HaRav Henoch Leibowitz zt”l

Chizuk For People in Chinuch From HaGaon HaRav Henoch Leibowitz zt”l

Collated by Rabbi Yair Hoffman Tonight is the 13th yahrtzeit of Moreinu HaRav Henoch Leibowitz zt”l.  The Rosh HaYeshiva zt”l was one of the primary movers… Read More ›

New song “Afikomen” from Eli Levin and Motty Ilowitz to inspire us all to suggest Shidduchim!

New song “Afikomen” from Eli Levin and Motty Ilowitz to inspire us all to suggest Shidduchim!

Three years ago, Yisroel Levin and his Kallah, Elisheva Kaplan, were killed in a horrible car accident on Chol Hamoed Pesach. This tragedy shook Klal… Read More ›

UK University Launches Investigation Into Educator Targeting Jewish Students

UK University Launches Investigation Into Educator Targeting Jewish Students

  LONDON (JNS) – Bristol University in the United Kingdom has launched an investigation into a professor who made comments targeting Jewish students at the… Read More ›

Israel has a chance to heal itself

Israel has a chance to heal itself

Opinion: The coronavirus crisis has shone a light on multiple issues that have festered under the surface for decades, and the pandemic has given us… Read More ›

Iraq’s Last Jewish Doctor, Who Treated The Poor For Free, Dies In Baghdad

Iraq’s Last Jewish Doctor, Who Treated The Poor For Free, Dies In Baghdad

BAGHDAD (JNS) – Iraq’s last Jewish doctor and one of Baghdad’s last Iraqi Jews died at the age of 61, according to reports on Tuesday.… Read More ›

Netanyahu versus Abu Yair

Netanyahu versus Abu Yair

Opinion: An uninformed visitor to Israel on eve of elections could be forgiven for thinking the PM is was running as head of an Arab… Read More ›

US sees near-doubling in distribution of white supremacist propaganda — ADL

US sees near-doubling in distribution of white supremacist propaganda — ADL

Watchdog documents 5,125 incidents in past year, nearly twice the figure from 2019; national average was 14 incidents a day, though just 5% of cases… Read More ›

After Atlanta Massacre, Jewish Groups Rally On Behalf Of Asian Americans

After Atlanta Massacre, Jewish Groups Rally On Behalf Of Asian Americans

  ATLANTA (JTA) — Jewish groups are rallying in support of Asian Americans following a string of murders Tuesday at massage parlors in Atlanta that… Read More ›

Day of reckoning for the ultra-Orthodox community

Day of reckoning for the ultra-Orthodox community

Opinion: While Liberman’s statement that he would send the Haredim and Netanyahu to the nearest dump’ is deplorable, the ensuing outcry draws focus from real… Read More ›

Tackling sexual abuse among ultra-Orthodox is especially difficult – analysis

Tackling sexual abuse among ultra-Orthodox is especially difficult – analysis

  The harrowing details of the allegations of rape and sexual abuse against Zaka founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav have made for horrifying reading in recent days.… Read More ›

Police said to suspect ZAKA officials hushed reports of founder’s alleged crimes

Police said to suspect ZAKA officials hushed reports of founder’s alleged crimes

Members of emergency services organization to be questioned by investigators, report says; public figures knew about alleged misconduct, kept quiet   Police reportedly suspect public… Read More ›

Israel’s Arabs and Jews must redefine their relationship

Israel’s Arabs and Jews must redefine their relationship

Opinion: Despite deep-rooted animosity towards each other, Israelis of both sectors must create a social contract to change long-held paradigms that have proven to be… Read More ›

For over 40 years, this ‘Passover goy’ bought millions of dollars of NY’s hametz

For over 40 years, this ‘Passover goy’ bought millions of dollars of NY’s hametz

From 1977 to 2019, real estate agent John J. Brown bought leavened bread products from the congregants of dozens of synagogues in and around New… Read More ›

Biden Declines To Call For Cuomo To Resign, Awaits Probe

Biden Declines To Call For Cuomo To Resign, Awaits Probe

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday passed up an opportunity to join other Democrats calling for the resignation of New York Gov.… Read More ›

10 things to know about Israel’s jittery peace with Jordan

10 things to know about Israel’s jittery peace with Jordan

A list of Israeli-Jordanian crisis points, most of which center on the Temple Mount.   Israel and Jordan don’t have a cold peace, they have… Read More ›

The New Fancy Sinks and Halacha

The New Fancy Sinks and Halacha

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It has been said that there have been Halachic Analysis articles on pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. Well,… Read More ›

First results are in on COVID study of thousands of Orthodox Jews

First results are in on COVID study of thousands of Orthodox Jews

Dr. Avi Rosenberg, a renal pathologist at Johns Hopkins University and another author of the paper, said for Purim in particular, “the guidance all came… Read More ›

This Sefer by Rav Shlomo Feivel Shustal Will be a Classis

This Sefer by Rav Shlomo Feivel Shustal Will be a Classis

Reviewed by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is a sefer that was just released and is now entirely sold out.… Read More ›

‘We have to prevent fake conversions,’ PM says when asked about court ruling

‘We have to prevent fake conversions,’ PM says when asked about court ruling

Netanyahu doesn’t comment directly on decision to legitimize non-Orthodox conversions in Israel, but seems to suggest it could be exploited by African migrants seeking citizenship… Read More ›