By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
This article was written l’ilui nishmas the author’s mother, whose 12th Yartzeit is today.
For some reason, the Mitzvah or custom of looking at the Shabbos candles (See Ramah in Shulchan Aruch 271:10) is not so well known.
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About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s overall job performance, according to a new poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which finds some support for the president’s handling of the U.S.
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During this past weeks hot weather, the junior boys of Ruach day camp in Flatbush – together with the assistant head counselor Yitzy Litvintchouk were giving out cold water bottles to the workers repairing the road in front of camp.
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A top-rated New York City pizza restaurant has reopened two days after it was shuttered by state officials over unpaid taxes.
The New York Post reports that Brooklyn’s Di Fara Pizza reopened Thursday after its owners worked out a payment plan to settle a $167,000 tax bill.

A serious crash resulted in only minor injuries on Route 6, Friday afternoon.
The crash happened just after 12:00PM on Route 6 heading Upstate – just before NY 17.
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A Frum man, reportedly from Eretz Yisroel, needed to be rescued by a helicopter in the Swiss Alps.
The man was reportedly hiking on Friday, when he lost his way on a trail.
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Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79.
Charles Koch announced the death on Friday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David’s death.”
David Koch, who lived in New York City, was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980.

China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.

Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq lost month, U.S. officials have confirmed, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region.

Lightning struck across the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland and neighboring Slovakia on Thursday, killing five people and injuring over 100 others in an area popular with hikers and families, authorities said.
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