Vice President Mike Pence paid tribute to fallen members of the U.S. armed forces Monday, thanking their loved ones in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and acknowledging that for them “every day is Memorial Day.”
Pence placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to remember dead service members whose remains haven’t been identified and observed a moment of silence.

All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn’t paper over the tensions between President Donald Trump and Japan’s Shinzo Abe on two of their most pressing issues: North Korea and trade.
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Dovy stands on the curb, watching the school bus pull away without him. Again. A few minutes ago, the bus pulled up to his home with twenty empty seats. But while his brother, Yossie, climbed aboard, Dovy was not allowed to get on.
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This past Wednesday evening, Lag B’Omar, the Syrian community of Flatbush held a historic event entitled “The Mishnathon”. A project of Yeshivat Shaare Torah of Brooklyn, The Mishnathon saw nearly 600 participants partake in the remarkable achievement of completing Shas Mishnayos in one single night.

In Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, more than 100 black Democrats who expect to attend the 2020 caucuses crammed into a tiny community center in the capital city to position themselves as a force in the most wide-open presidential campaign in a generation.
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com)
It is a question that, unfortunately, is not an uncommon one to be posed to a Rabbi. When is it permitted to act upon a possible thief or con-man in our midst?
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Over 400 children and 100 teachers and support staff joined a Baltimore Lag B’Omer Unity Event on Thursday, May 23.

By: Zvi Gluck
This past year has been the most difficult year that I can remember. Like everyone else, my life has always had its ups and downs, but this year has been exceptionally trying.
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Israeli bombed a Syrian military post in the country’s south on Monday, after Syria had fired at one of its fighter jets during a routine mission within Israeli airspace. The IDF strike killed a Syrian soldier and injured another.
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A Hawaii woman who was found alive in a forest on Maui island after going missing more than two weeks ago said she at times struggled not to give up.
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