Month April 2023

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com America now, in terms of the vast growth of Torah Judaism, is a vastly different place than it was in the fifties, sixties and seventies.  Most people attribute this change to the Yeshivos and… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

HARTFORD (AP) – A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on one side and officials closing Interstate 95 in both directions during… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Shortly after the State of Israel was founded, Shanit Keter-Schwartz was born on a dirt floor, in a hut made of aluminum siding outside the burgeoning town of Tel Aviv. She was the second of six children,… Continue Reading →

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Atop a 100-foot barge tied up at the Port of Los Angeles, engineers have built a kind of floating laboratory to answer a simple question: Is there a way to cleanse seawater of carbon dioxide… Continue Reading →

The United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet denied an Iranian claim on Thursday that the Islamic Republic’s navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Persian Gulf. “The U.S. submarine was approaching while submerged, but the Iranian submarine… Continue Reading →

Israel’s Ministry of Transport and Road Safety announced this week that it has submitted an unprecedented 50 billion shekel (around $13.7 billion) budget proposal to the Ministry of Finance towards the development and improvement of transportation over the next five… Continue Reading →

COLE, Okla. (AP) — Strong storms with tornadoes and hail killed at least two people in the central U.S., injuring others, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power. More severe storms were predicted for Thursday night. The National Weather Service… Continue Reading →

BDE: Cantor Moshe Stern, one of the most prominent Ashkenazi Chazanim who attained fame around the world for his powerful voice and moving renditions , has passed away at age 87. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1935, Stern studied under his… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israel’s national memorial day looms, the country is still riven by polemic and social discord, leading to fears that the day which commemorates the tens of thousands who have died in Israels’ wars and in terrorist… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Crews used cranes to pluck cars, one by one, from the rubble of a New York City parking garage Wednesday as building inspectors sought to pinpoint a cause for the century-old structure’s deadly collapse. A body… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Crews used cranes to pluck cars, one by one, from the rubble of a New York City parking garage Wednesday as building inspectors sought to pinpoint a cause for the century-old structure’s deadly collapse. A body… Continue Reading →

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump is aiming to drum up support in the Florida governor’s backyard, securing endorsements already from more than one-third of the Republicans… Continue Reading →

The dean of Machon Sara Schenirer Beth Jacob Jerusalem (BJJ), the nifteres was the only child of Rav Yitzchok Hutner, zt”l, and the wife of Rav Yonason David, shlita, the rosh yeshivah of RabbeinuChaim Berlin in Flatbush and Yeshivas Pachad… Continue Reading →

Women in Business: Blima Ehrentreu Blima Ehrentreu is a treasure hunter, coaxing beauty from raw materials. When faced with limitations, she looks for ways to adapt in order to brighten someone else’s life. When Blima was a teenager, her parents… Continue Reading →