WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump retweeted, then deleted, a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment by the House. Just before midnight Friday, Trump retweeted a message from Twitter user @Surfermom77, an account that claims to be a woman named Sophia […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show. Tiffany Harris, 30, was released without bail after her arraignment on the attempted assault charge and […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com To enhance the Shabbos Chanukah table, one can divide the guests and family into females versus males and pit each against each other.  Since it is multiple choice, the teams do not have to fair.  You can have a brisk Kollel guy on one side and a 5th grader […]

This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some […]

Recovery from alcohol, nicotine, or drug addiction is not an easy process. People who have faced it would prove that the most difficult thing is not to stop consuming the substance, but the fear, loneliness, and feeling of despair. Unfortunately, that is true. Even in our modern and tolerant world, people still expect men to […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Wawa convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a data breach that affected its 850 locations along the East Coast. Wawa Inc. discovered malware on its payment processing servers this month before stopping the breach Dec. 12, the company has said. Officials with the company, based in Wawa, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is increasing its police presence in some Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations after possibly anti-Semitic attacks during the Hanukkah holiday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the latest episode happened Friday. Besides making officers more visible in Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, police will boost visits […]

GRAVESAND, BROOKLYN (JTA) – A Jewish woman was hit in the head while walking with her son in Brooklyn. The incident, reported Thursday by ABC, is at least the fourth reported incident targeting Jews in New York in the last week. According to the report, a 42-year-old woman shouted an anti-Semitic slur and then beat […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The leader of the second-largest party in the Netherlands called for expelling from the country an International Criminal Court prosecutor for attempting to try Israelis for war crimes. Geert Wilders called Thursday for the expulsion of Fatou Bensouda over her Dec. 20 report alleging that both Israelis and Palestinians had committed war […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shored up his base with a landslide primary victory announced early Friday, but he will need a big win in national elections in March if he hopes to stay in office and gain immunity from prosecution on corruption charges. Netanyahu handily defeated Gideon Saar, a former aide […]