Israel’s Coalition Suffers Further Setback As Bid To Reinstate Matan Kahana As Religious Affairs Minister Fails
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel's rickety coalition suffered a further setback, demonstrating its inability at present to function or pass legislation. Early Tuesday morning an attemp...
Orthodox Rabbis Don’t Enter Churches. So Why Was Britain’s Chief Rabbi At St. Paul’s Cathedral?
LONDON (JTA) — Most Orthodox interpretations of Jewish law conclude that Jews are forbidden to enter churches, even if no prayer will be taking place.
So why was British Chief R...
Drama In Knesset: Coalition Defeated On Judea And Samaria Law, Justice Minister Sa’ar Says He’ll ‘Weigh Options’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic development in the Israeli Knesset Monday evening, a bill to enforce Israeli law in Judea and Samaria was defeated by the opposition. The law is...
2 Lev Tahor Leaders, Mordechai And Matisyahu Malka, Convicted On Kidnapping Charges
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Two members of the Lev Tahor cult, Mordechai Malka and Matisyahu Malka, have been found guilty in a US federal court of plotting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl a...
Rabbi Uri Zohar: Makom Sh’baalei teshuvah Omdin, ain Tzaddikim Gemurim Omdin
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Imagine a top actor, a top film director, and a top comedian all in one. Imagine a Tom Cruise, a Steven Spielberg, and a Jimmy Kimmel - all w...
Out Of The Vault: Four Torah Scrolls From Collection Of New National Library Of Israel Series
JERUSALEM (JNS) - In advance of Shavuot, the National Library of Israel has released a series of video clips featuring four of the most significant Torah scrolls from its world-lea...
In A First, Israeli Government To Pay Orthodox Women To Advise On Jewish Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) - In a first, Israel will pay 21 women to be advisers on Jewish law in the Orthodox community, a concept that has spread in the United States but that Israel’s Orth...
One by One – Rabbi Mendel and Esther Lifshitz & Family of Boise, Idaho
Our shlichus is not an assembly-line shlichus; it is handmade. Every neshama is hand-crafted. We wouldn’t trade it for the world. We had the incredible opportunity to build up our ...
Yossi Gestetner Blasts Democrats’ Hypocrisy on Gun Control
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Commentator Yossi Gestetner put out a series of tweets this week, demonstrating the Democrats’ hypocrisy on gun control. He called it a "farce" to s...
Why We Really Really Need to Act Like Dovid HaMelech These Days
Watch this remarkable Video by Roy Neuberger and fulfill the Mitzvah of longing for Moshiach..
https://youtu.be/LfL2BPzlvho
Dental Implants and Halacha
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Dedicated in honor of Dr. Mutty Weitz, of South Island Periodontics, a fine periodontist - by all accounts
Pretty much all advances in tech...
WATCH: R’ Elchanan Poupko on Gerrer Conflict: ‘If You See Violence, Chillul Shabbos, Kids Taken Away, We Need To Speak Out’
(Edits were made to ensure conformance with the seven conditions of Sefer Chofetz Chaim)
Rabbi Elchanan Poupko is an eleventh-generation rabbi, teacher and author. He has ...
Answer Truthfully: Who Knows the Name of The Chofetz Chaim’s Sefer on “Emes?”
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It is one of the most neglected of virtues - dedicating oneself to only speak truth. Rav Chaim Kanievsky zatzal thought it so neglected and s...
Swastika Flier Found At Bus Stop Across From Maryland Synagogue
BALTIMORE (JNS) - A flier with a swastika on it was found plastered on a bus-stop shelter in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C....
Rabbi Avrohom Rubin Of Badatz Mehadrin: ‘Imported Dairy Items Could Be Treif, Certainly Chalav Akum’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of new Israeli government regulations removing tariffs from items imported from abroad a large number of new dairy items are available in Israeli ...
BDE: Rabbi Uri Zohar, Famous Israeli Filmstar Turned Baal Teshuva, Head Of Lev L’Achim, Dies At 86
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: Rabbi Uri Zohar, a former film star and icon of Israeli culture who became a Baal Teshuva in the 1970's and spearheaded efforts to help others return to ...
10 Things Every High School Girl Should Know About Shavuos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
NOT SAYING WHY YOU ARE RESTING
Some people have the custom to sleep on Erev Shavuos in order to be able to stay up the...
Hatzalah Volunteers Bill Passes In Albany
ALBANY (VINnews) - A joint bill by Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Senator Felder, Hatzalah bill (S8031A), was passed unanimously in the NYS Senate today. The bill protects oper...
Chassidic Leaders Blast Rioters Over Violence, Chillul Shabbos
ISRAEL (VINnews) — About ten days after heavy violence and riots took place on the streets of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Ashdod, in which followers of “mainstream” Ger assaulted foll...
Boycott Advocates Claim Victory As General Mills Divests Its Israeli Dough Operation
JERUSALEM (JTA) - General Mills announced Tuesday it would be fully divesting from a business venture in Israel that had operated in an East Jerusalem settlement, in a move pro-Pal...