by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Generally speaking, Orthodox Jews are completely not affected by actions of the Catholic pope.   Regarding vesain tal u’matar, however, one Pope’s actions affected the secular date of when we do things. Read on for clarification. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII initiated changes to the calendar that did have some […]

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, is suing the teen’s parents, family attorney, the attorney’s book publisher and prosecutors who tried his case, claiming he was defamed when they allowed a witness to give false testimony in an attempt to incriminate him. […]

Prof. Pamela Karlan was asked to compare the fears of rule by a king and President Trump’s actions. She gave the example that “the president can name his son Barron but he cannot make him a baron.”

Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday signed a ministerial decree imposing financial sanctions on a London-based terror suspect believed to have ties to Hamas.
The decree states that all of Mohammed Jamil Mahmoud Hersh’s assets in Israel are to be frozen, while foreign institutions operating in Israel risk fines for doing business with him. Hersh, a Hamas activist deported from Israel in 1992, is currently living in the UK, where he works for the Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK, a charity affiliated with Hamas.
The decree was issued in accordance with Israel’s Counterterrorism Law.

NEW YORK (AP) — The email looked legitimate, so Danielle Radin clicked on the link it contained, expecting to have her products included in a holiday gift guide. “I instantly regretted it,” says Radin, owner of Mantra Magnets, a website that sells wellness products. “It took me to some random website that looked like those […]

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume breaks down how impeachment became a political move.
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KIRYAS JOEL (VINnews) — Firefighters are battling a large fire which broke out in Kiryas Joel on Wednesday afternoon. The fire is reported at 411 County Route 105, between Bnai Yoel Drive and Bakertown Road. Video footage shows the heavy flames that firefighters encountered when they arrived at the scene. The fire reportedly started inside […]

Leviathan, Israel’s largest offshore natural-gas field, will start supplying the local market by the end of December, followed by exports to Egypt and Jordan soon after, Reuters reported on Monday.
“Within two to three weeks, we will open the wells and start to supply the gas,” said Binyamin Zomer, vice president for regional affairs at Texas-based Noble Energy.
“Before the end of the year, we will start supplying the domestic market, and in the weeks right after that, we will export to Egypt and Jordan,” Zomer told the annual Israel Energy and Business Convention, according to the report.
Noble Energy discovered the Leviathan field, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Haifa, in 2010.
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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Veteran Israeli journalist Carmela Menashe supposedly dropped a bombshell Tuesday morning when she reported that the IDF had inflated the numbers of Chareidi recruits enlisting each year in order to meet prearranged government quotas. Menashe claimed that the IDF’s Haredi recruitment division allegedly “forged” the numbers by counting the religious (who are […]