Do Doctors Always Get a Mitzvah?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
A lawyer once told of a surgeon who lined up his surgeries back-to -back – to back in order to maximize his income. He would have an assistan...
The 3 Types of Lyme Disease Believers
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
As people are coming back from camp and vacation, everyone should be checking themselves and their children for ticks. If a tick is found on a...
The Graphic Artist’s Emes Shailah to Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein Shlita
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation
A young graphic designer living in Eretz Yisroel finally found a position where she could effectively use her talents and ha...
The 17th of Tammuz and the 3 Weeks and What’s Different This Year
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Sunday, the 18th of Tammuz is when we observe the 17th of Tammuz Fast Day! Let's get some background.
But first, some crucial times:
I...
UPDATE: NYPD Commish Says Train Shooting Not Being Investigated As Terrorism
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman in a construction vest donned a gas mask, set off a smoke canister on a rush-hour subway train and shot at least 10 people Tuesday morning, authorities sai...
Shabbos, or the Non-Jewish Girlfriend?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com
Picture a non-observant young man with his entire life ahead of him. Nachal lives in Teverya with his father, mother and two brothers. He en...
Hallel on Chanukah: What’s the Motor?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Noted Talmid Chochom, Rav Yehudah Schiff Shlita, spoke this Shabbos Chanukah at Kollel Avreichim of Far Rockaway and the Five Towns.
He dea...
What if the UN General Assembly were to Reprint the Christian Bible?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It is sort of a repeat of the Greek move that instigated the background to Chanukah.
Yesterday, the UN General Assembly voted on something ...
White House Chanukah Lighting and the Kiddush Hashem by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt was a guest at the White House Chanukah lighting. It is this author's view that he performed a Kiddush Hashem in strict...
Kyle Rittenhouse Cleared Of All Charges In Kenosha Shootings
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that became a flashpoint in the nati...
The Latest On The Presidential Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):
2:30 p.m.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Postal Service inspectors to swee...
Yaakov Shwekey’s New Song: An Analysis
NEW YORK (VINnews By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) - Never having met Yaakov Schwekey the singer, it is difficult to figure out what is going on in his head. But one can pictur...