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NEW JERSEY (VINnews) — A socialist politician has been duped into thinking that she was planning an event with the “Chief Rabbi” of Gaza. In reality, her campaign was communicating...

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...

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A frum couple was allegedly thrown off an American Airlines flight and humiliated by the flight crew. Their offense -- refusing to place a pair of tefillin on ...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a terrible road accident which occured a short time before Shabbat on road 465 in Samaria, two young children were killed and their parents badly injured. ...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a terrorist attack which occurred just before the end of Shabbat, a youth attacked and stabbed a chareidi yeshiva student near Shaar Shechem (Damascus Gate...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times] There are a number of fascinating halachic debates concerning where Yeshiva students should be lighting their Chanukah men...

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) It is Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Chanukah.  And when Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbos – there is a fascinating yet unresolved halachic question. A...

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In response to the city's newly announced mandate requiring employees of Yeshivas and other private schools to get vaccinated for Covid, Agudas Yisrael sent a ...

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is happening this Motzai Shabbos.  We begin saying vesain tal umatar.  Generally speaking, Orthodox Jews are completely not affected by act...

NEW YORK (JTA) - In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children ...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Be prepared for hundreds of fascinating rulings in halacha from Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita. Reb Shimon Brecher z”l was an extraordinary ind...

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The NY Times is reporting that New York City will mandate all employees at yeshivos and other private schools to be vaccinated against COVID-19. According t...

CHICAGO (VINnews) — Rumors have been swirling across social media, implying that the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC), in addition to other kashrus agencies, have prohibited the un...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A shocking video showing Israeli Arab students and MKs dancing and celebrating with Palestinian flags in the heart of Tel Aviv has caused angry responses in I...

BROOKLYN (JTA) - Moshe Feldman, a beloved doctor in Crown Heights who for years tended to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, has died a...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — One of the survivors of the attempted lynching by a mob of Arab monsters in Ramallah on Wednesday has spoken publicly about his terrifying experience. The ...

GHANA (JTA) - Eric Adams told reporters he planned to engage in “some spiritual cleansing” during a trip to Ghana this week. Still, the appearance of New York City’s mayor-elect at...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Esther Gella Blau, a young new mother who collapsed in her parents home in Jerusalem two weeks ago passed away at the age of 22. When the expectant mother col...

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...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eliya Hawila, the Lebanese Arab who masqueraded as a Jew and married a Jewess from the Syrian Jewish community before being exposed has spoken to the Israeli ...