Community Mourns the Loss of Dr. Marvin (Mordechai) Pollack z”l
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The Borough Park and Five Towns/Far Rockaway communities mourn the loss of an extraordinary individual: Dr. Marvin (Mordechai) Pollack, z”l. Dr. Pollack was a...
Honoring Elie Wiesel On The Anniversary Of His Passing: Revisiting Oprah Winfrey’s Interview
By Michele Justic
In 2012, Oprah Winfrey sat down with Elie Wiesel, with whom she shared a decades-long friendship and many life-changing experiences, for her Emmy Award winning series, “Super...
Popular Conservative Columnist Charles Krauthammer Has Passed Away, Age 68
After recently announcing his final column weeks ago due to a battle with terminal cancer, the world was saddened to learn of the passing of Charles Krauthammer on June...
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, Creator of ‘Shoah’ Documentary, Dies at 92
French filmmaker, writer and commentator Claude Lanzmann, best known for his searing documentary film “Shoah,” a nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust, has died in Paris at the age...
Remembering Milton Kramer
By Rabbi Pesach Schmerling
The Far Rockaway/Lawrence community and the Chabad Lubavitch movement lost a great man last week when Reb Yechiel Michel ben Reb Chaim Shneur Zalman HaLevi Kramer...
Marking Two Years Since The Death Of Elie Wiesel
A memorial plaque to the celebrated Nobel Prize Laureate, renowned worldwide for his efforts on behalf of Holocaust remembrance, was unveiled at the Chamber of Holocaust on Jerusalem’s Mount...
Terror Victim Ari Fuld Laid to Rest in Kfar Etzion
Thousands of people gathered at the Kfar Etzion cemetery just before midnight on Sunday to eulogize and lay to rest Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four living in...
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Bennett-Netanyahu meeting ends in decision for new elections
By URI BOLLAG
After Prime Minister Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett concluded their meeting it became clear that Israel will hold early elections.
A date...
US to vote ‘No’ instead of abstain on UN resolution about Golan
(JTA) — The United States will vote “No” on a UN resolution criticizing Israel’s control of the Golan Heights instead of abstaining as it...
US Air Force concludes international conference in Israel
(Arutz Sheva) - The US Air Force held its F-35 UGWG (Users Group Working Group) in Israel this past week.
This is the second year...