Gov’t tightens coronavirus restrictions, extends closure as cases soar
Ben-Gurion Airport to be closed from October 1-14. The government overnight voted to tighten coronavirus restrictions and extend the lockdown another three weeks. A… Read More ›
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As virus rebounds in New York, Haredi Jews decry stigmatization
Authorities say the most significant jumps involve ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn and while many leaders in the community promote awareness of COVID-19 risks, others dismiss… Read More ›
Nearly 9,000 virus cases recorded Wednesday as infections hit new high
Health Ministry says 810 people in serious condition, with 206 on ventilators, amid worries over hospitals being unable to cope with influx of patients … Read More ›
American, United To Furlough 32,000 As Time Runs Out On Aid
FORT WORTH, TX (AP) — American Airlines and United Airlines say they will begin to furlough 32,000 employees after lawmakers and the White House… Read More ›
Trump signs spending bill to keep government open until December 11
President Donald Trump early Thursday morning signed a spending bill to keep the government open until December 11, according to a tweet from White House… Read More ›
Netanyahu, in UN speech, warns of more Hezbollah peril for Beirut
PM says ‘no doubt’ other Arab, Muslim states will sign treaties. Hezbollah has a secret arms depot next to a gas company that could… Read More ›
Israeli zealots of any stripe cannot have the upper hand
Opinion: The weeks of protests against the prime minister have not succeeded in bringing about a change and organizers should not allow radicals among them… Read More ›
Jewish Democratic group’s ad compares Trump era and 1930s Germany
JDCA says message that ‘hate must be stopped’ will target Jewish voters in swing states; American Jewish Committee calls clip ‘offensive’ The Jewish Democratic Council… Read More ›
LIVE AT 9 PM: First Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump & Joe Biden
CLEVELAND (AP) — With just 35 days until the election, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are barreling into their crucial first debate… Read More ›
Mueller issues a rare public statement disputing his former right-hand man’s claim that he didn’t pursue Trump hard enough
The former special counsel Robert Mueller issued a statement Tuesday pushing back on claims his former right-hand man in the Russia probe, Andrew Weissmann,… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia says it busted terrorist cell trained by IRGC
Cell members “received military and field training, including on how to make explosives, inside Revolutionary Guards sites in Iran” for several weeks in late 2017,… Read More ›
Rabbis ponder coronavirus queries of ultra-Orthodox Jewish life
Months into the pandemic, religious leaders in Israel are finally addressing questions on how to maintain proper Jewish observance under the restrictions of the outbreak,… Read More ›
Prepare for 1,500 seriously ill COVID-19 patients by week’s end, warns Netanyahu
PM reportedly believes national lockdown could last a month; premier to convene coronavirus cabinet Wednesday, discuss goals for emerging from lockdown, enforcement capabilities Prime… Read More ›
NY Times: Trump Paid $750 In US Income Taxes In 2016, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year… Read More ›
Some countries are eying Sweden’s ‘light-touch’ Covid response. It’s a gamble that could backfire
London – An expert on the spread of Covid-19 proclaimed last week that the pandemic in Sweden was essentially over — the virus there was… Read More ›
Israel’s modern Yom Kippur debacle
During the first wave of the virus, Israel bought thousands of ventilators because it thought that’s what was needed. Did it recruit or train staff… Read More ›
Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown
The holiest day in the Jewish calendar has been marred with political battles over openings of synagogues and limits on gatherings as Israel’s quietest day… Read More ›
Op-Ed: Who by plague? Far fewer, if we can rediscover a spirit of mutual responsibility
COVID doesn’t distinguish between Orthodox and secular, left and right, Jew and Arab. But it does have its limits. Whatever our leaders’ failures, we, the… Read More ›
The Mitzvah to Eat Today
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com THE MITZVAH The Shulchan Aruch (OC 604:1) rules that there is a Torah Mitzvah on Erev Yom Kippur to… Read More ›
The most shocking revelations from The New York Times report about Trump’s tax returns
An investigation released by The New York Times on Sunday gave Americans a look into President Trump’s finances. Trump reportedly paid just $750 in federal income… Read More ›
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