By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com One of the general differences between Litvaks (Misnagdim) and Chassidim lies in what they do on the holiday of Shmini Atzeres regarding eating in the Sukkah. Chassidim have traditionally taken a more lenient view than their Litvak counterparts on the issue. It should be noted that each of the two opinions should be respected.  Rav Tzaddok HaKohen, in his work Maishiv Tzedek,  writes that those who do not eat in the Sukkah on Shmini Atzeres do have a basis in the Gemorah and the Yerushalmi.  In this article, an attempt will be made to explain the halachic basis of each of the two customs.

At least five Magen David Adom volunteers were arrested on Wednesday for illegally orchestrating black market Coronavirus testing for civilians and pocketing the money. The announcement regarding the arrests came on Wednesday. The Jerusalem police division opened an investigation into the volunteers after a report in Ynet was published documenting the illegal tests being conducted. According to an MDA spokesperson, the organization had submitted a complaint to the police regarding their suspicions that such a racket was taking place and that pirated coronavirus tests were being carried out by one specific MDA volunteer. The statement also said that the volunteers in question have been removed from service and that MDA has filed charges against them.

“Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews burn masks in violent protests.” So ran a recent Washington Post headline. This stands in stark contrast to the great lengths the media went to cast Black Lives Matter protests as “mostly peaceful ” despite it resulting in more than a billion dollars in damages, making it the costliest riots in history. While only a handful out of the several hundred protesters got physical in the altercations over the past few nights, it is nevertheless cast as the defining part of the event by malicious media and politicians. When asked during a press conference why no arrests had been made, de Blasio said, “There is something here that needs to be fixed right away.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he doesn’t think he’s contagious anymore, but medical experts say that’s impossible to know a week after his diagnosis with COVID-19. Most people with COVID-19 can stop isolating and be around others about 10 days after they first showed symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s provided their symptoms have improved, they have not had a fever for 24 hours and are no longer on any medication to reduce a high temperature. But there’s no way to know for certain that someone is no longer contagious so soon after falling ill, experts say. “At this point, there’s no diagnostic test that tells you whether a person that’s infected remains infectious,” said Dr.

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The Jewish communities in Azerbaijan and Armenia say they are living in fear due to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, a complex conflict with many players, including Turkey, Russia, and Iran and even Israel, which is the top supplier of weapons to Azerbaijan and receives 40% of its oil supplies from the Muslim country. “The situation is exceedingly difficult in Azerbaijan now,” said Rabbi Zamir Isayev, the representative of Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel in Azerbaijan and the director of the Baku public Jewish school, according to a report by The Jewish Press. “The Armenian Armed Units have been bombing civilian population centers. They fired rockets at Baku even from the territory of Armenia proper.

The Rabbanim of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, which serves the Chareidi communities in London in Stamford Hill, Golders Green, Hendon, and Edgware issued a sharply worded pesak din on Chol Hamoed addressing the issue of coronavirus carriers and their family members davening in shul, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. “Anyone who has a household member who, lo aleinu, is positive for the coronavirus or anyone who has a household member who has one of the symptoms of the virus, and even more so, anyone who himself is a virus carrier, lo aleinu – all the abovementioned and their household members are absolutely forbidden to come to any Beis Medrash or enter any public place,” the Rabbanim wrote. “Anyone who is mezalzel this carries the responsibility for the public on his head.

During the historic visit of the Emirati, Israeli, and German foreign ministers to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on Tuesday, an intriguing conversation took place between UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Rav of Berlin, R’ Yehudah Teichtal, who was present at the visit, B’Chadrei Charedim reported. “We came to the Holocaust memorial in order to show honor and peace to the Jewish people,” Bin Zayed said to Rabbi Teichtal. “[Bin Zayed] was very interested in the life of the Jews in Berlin, especially in light of our history,” Rabbi Teichtal said. “We told him that we don’t only occupy ourselves with the painful past but with investing our resources and energy in building a broad infrastructure for Jewish life.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped last week to a still-high 840,000, evidence that layoffs remain elevated seven months into the pandemic recession. Yet economists say they are increasingly dubious about the unemployment claims figures, even though there is little doubt that hiring has slowed and employers have continued to lay off workers. One reason layoffs remain high is that companies often hold on to workers when a recession begins, if they can, in hopes of outlasting the downturn. Yet if the recession drags on, many will eventually give up and cut jobs. “Some of these new layoffs are coming from firms that didn’t want or didn’t have to lay people off at first,” said Constance Hunter, chief economist at KPMG.