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Shapiro Speaks Out Against NYT

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FLORIDA (VINnews) — Popular conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, has blasted the NY Times in a series of tweets, over its vicious hit piece against Chassidim. ...

Just Before Elections, Transport Minister Michaeli Promotes Public Transport On Shabbat

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic attempt to change the status quo on religious affairs just a few weeks before elections, the Israeli government voted Sunday to ratify a proposa...
FILE - MK Moshe Gafni speaks during a plenum session at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 23, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Aguda, Degel Sign Agreement For Mutual Knesset List After Belz Crisis Resolved

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Just days before the final deadline, and with a helping hand from Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, the two factions in UTJ signed an agreement Monday which wi...

Bennett, Liberman Oppose Equating Budgets Of Chareidi Schools With State Schools

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman spoke out against an agreement between Agudath Yisrael and Degel Hatorah signed on...

WATCH: Lee Zeldin Defends Yeshivas, Opposes Secular Education Guidelines

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — At a press conference Monday in Manhattan, Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin defended yeshivas against the state's proposal to invade and revamp cu...

Protest As New York Poised To Strengthen Oversight Of Nonpublic Schools

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NEW YORK (AP) - New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-O...
FILE - Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind in 2012. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dov Hikind Blasts NYT Hit Piece, Says Will Hurt ALL Jews, Not Just Religious

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NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — Renowned activist Dov Hikind, in an interview with VIN News, blasted the NY Times over its vicious hit piece against yeshivas. Mr. Hikind observed that reg...

Eli Beer: Saving The World, One Life At A Time

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - When Eli Beer was five years old, he was walking home from school in Bayit Vegan, his neighborhood in Jerusalem. Suddenly, a bus blew up in front of him.  “I w...

New York State Clears The Way For Final Vote To Approve Substantial Equivalency Regulations

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — As expected, the New York State Board of Regents has passed the new proposed regulations for private schools in a Monday vote. The vote was unanimous. The f...

Senator Mike Martucci Blasts the NYTimes Liberal Attack On The Hasidic Community

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — The following statement was released by Senator Mike Martucci: “In Sunday’s article, The New York Times went to great lengths to string together a series of...

Israeli National Security Council Deputy CEO: Travel To Uman Is ‘Life-Endangering’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel National Security Council deputy chief and the head of the counter-terror branch, Brigadier General (Res.) Itzik Bar, warned Breslov Hasidim that trave...

Three Members Of Lev Tahor Sentenced To Jail Terms For 2018 Kidnapping Of Children

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Three members of the Lev Tahor cult were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the 2018 kidnapping of two children. “This was a horrific, horrend...

BDE: 25-Year-Old Chareidi From Afula Killed In Electric Scooter Accident

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a tragic accident which occurred very early Monday morning, a young chareidi man from Afula was killed while riding on an electric scooter. Rav Yitzchak...

Analyzing the New York Times Hatchet Job Against Yeshivos

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The New York Times has written a one-sided attack against the Yeshiva and Torah community that is so filled with inaccuracies and half-stories...

READ: Askanim, Community Leaders, and Yeshiva Parents Respond to the NYT Smear Story

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — In response to the vicious NY Times article attacking Chassidic yeshivas, multiple people have spoken out on social media in defense of the community. Some of ...

READ: Orthodox Leaders Warn NYT About Severe Consequences in Response to Hit Piece Against Chassidic Yeshivas

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The Tzedek Association enlisted J. Erik Connolly of the Benesch law firm, which specializes in defamation suits, to write a letter to the NY Times, ...
The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is located in Jerualem. (Flash90)

Israeli Rabbinical Court Jails Female Get Refuser After 4 Year Battle Against Accepting Divorce

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a new legal precedent, Israel's Higher Rabbinical Court sent a female get refuser to jail Sunday, after she had refused to accept a get from her husband fo...

21 Years After Miraculous Escape From 9/11 Catastrophe, R’ Shmuel Katz Passes Away

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — R' Shmuel Katz used to work on the 85th floor of one of the Twin Towers. Every day he would make his way to Manhattan on the subway but was distressed by being...

Head Of Israeli Institute For National Security Studies: Patriots Should Have Just 2 Children

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, the director of the Tel Aviv University-based Institute for National Security Studies, reiterated his concern over the density of p...

VIN PODCAST POLITICAL ROUNDUP: Media claims Trump had nuclear secrets. CNN says thermometers are racist. Iran nuclear deal falls apart.

 In the latest VIN News political roundup, Yaakov M discusses: The Iran nuclear deal is off the table--which is exactly what the Iranians WANT. The media falsely claims that T...