The footage is set to SWAT Music written by Barry De Vorzon in 1975 and performed by Rhythm Heritage

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times You come home, it is late. Generally, in New York, when you come home late there is literally no parking within blocks of your home. But Boruch Hashem, you are one of the lucky ones. You have a driveway. You turn onto your block and, […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Our question, of course, is what is the halacha? Do we make a bracha on it or not?  But first, let’s discuss the topic.  According to Newsweek, as reported this morning, Italian photographer, Rebecca Paviola has just captured footage of an extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon called Mother-of-Pearl Clouds, or […]

by Aiyal Golamsky In a new development, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, both the United States and Germany have agreed to provide tanks to Ukraine, in its battle to regain stolen territory taken by Russia. The M1 Abrams from the US and Germany’s  Leopard 2 are both modern, heavily-armored main battle tanks that […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There are so many aspects of Hashem’s Divine Wisdom that they are uncountable. But here is a truly remarkable one: spiders. Darwin once made an observation when he was on a ship 60 miles from land. Previously the ship had no spiders, but one day it was covered with […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com As of this writing, there are thousands of frum yidden in Miami, in Orlando, and in Boca Raton.   Many of them are eating out in fleishig restaurants.  There are over thirty kosher restaurants in Panama where frum people are eating and there is even the Ember restaurant in Cancun. […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Recently, at a wedding in Lakewood, New Jersey, the gentleman seated next to me had asked whether guns are Muktzah on Shabbos or not.  He claimed that the general trend among Rabbis of shuls in current times is to forbid it on account of Muktzah and their feeling that […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com “Really?  There are actual halachos about moving?  You cannot be serious, Rabbi.” Well, we are serious and during Moving Day there is a little-known halacha that, very often, does apply – at least peripherally.  But first, a short introduction.  There are, generally speaking, always two options in which one […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There are great individuals that often surround us, and yet because of their quiet demeanor, one hardly knows of their greatness.  This Wednesday night and Thursday mark the shloshim of the petirah of a remarkable individual, Gerald Feldhamer, who dedicated his life to chesed and to serving the klal. […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com The pasuk in Mishei (14:1) tells us, “Chochmas nashim bansa Baisa – it is the wisdom of women that builds her house.  Perhaps no one personified this concept more than Rebbitzen Dvorah Esther Spiegel a”h, of Cedarhurst. Today marks the shloshim of a remarkable Rebbitzen who served the Five […]