(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
Those who grew up in the nineteen fifties remember it well. The fear throughout the country was palpable. True, polio epidemics had been in the United States since 1894, but the epidemic was never so virulent.
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With coalition talks underway, the unity of the chareidi parties is displaying some cracks as Shas and Yahadut Hatorah are competing for some of the same portfolios, primarily, control of the Housing Ministry.

In a series of events which began as tragic but have become inspiring, Jews around the world have begun to unite to help a very special Beit Shemesh family.

The Breyers are a large, happy brood, with 8 kids at home, including one special needs daughter.
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A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.

U.S. health officials will allow Philip Morris International to sell a cigarette alternative that heats tobacco without burning it.
But the Food and Drug Administration has not yet decided whether to allow the device, iQOS (EYE-kose), to be advertised as less harmful than cigarettes.

Rabbi Uriel Vigler of Chabad Israel Center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, found himself at the receiving end of an anti-Semitic tirade Tuesday morning.
It started as Rabbi Vigler was heading off to Shachris just before 7:00AM.
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CNN's Don Lemon critiques President Donald Trump for his responses to questions on white nationalism after various acts of extremist violence.
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Playing the role of happy warrior, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he expects to stay on in his current role through the 2020 election.
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Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled public sharing that has helped spread hate speech, extremism, misinformation and livestreamed video of massacres.

For seven decades, survivor testimony has been the centerpiece of Holocaust commemoration.
But with the world’s community of aging survivors rapidly shrinking and global understanding of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews declining, advocates of Holocaust remembrance are seeking new and creative ways to share witnesses’ stories with younger generations.