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ISRAEL (JNS) - Three Jewish filmmakers who were detained by Nigerian security forces nearly three weeks ago have been released and returned to Israel. Rudy Rochman, Andrew Leibm...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Thursday that he was adopting the recommendations of a health ministry panel stating that old people and people at hi...

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — One suspect has been arrested, and another suspect is still being sought, in the brutal beating and robbery of a Jewish man from Flatbush. Levi Zupnik was w...

NEW YORK (JNS) - Bitter scoop: Passengers on a Delta flight from New York to Tel Aviv on Wednesday were displeased when they discovered that the in-flight service included a less-t...

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Thursday approved plans to build a national Holocaust memorial beside Parliament, rejecting claims by campaigners that the location was unsu...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the last few days former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been very vocal in calling for a third COVID-19 vaccine shot for everyone in Israel. Net...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com By all accounts it was a very strange exchange.  United Torah Judaism MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni was arguing against PM Naftoli Bennet’s assault on ...

NEW YORK (VINnews) — At least one Ben & Jerry's store owner is not down with the company's decision to boycott Israel. Joel Gasman runs a Ben & Jerry's location on West ...

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the last 2 weeks, J Street and their allies released a biased poll suggesting that 25% of American Jews believe that Israel is an “apartheid state.” During...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Three-quarters of the members of the Israeli parliament on Wednesday called on Ben & Jerry's to reverse its decision to stop selling ice cream in Israeli settl...

VERMONT (JTA) — The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s defended the ice cream company’s boycott of Israel’s West Bank settlements in an op-ed in the The New York Times. Bennet...

FLEISCHMANNS (NYSP) - New York State Police have charged three men with Grand Larceny in the third degree as a hate crime, a class C felony, following an incident that occurred in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is ramping up pressure on Poland in hopes of stopping legislation that would prevent families from receiving restitution for property seized dur...

UKRAINE (VINnews) - At least four people died after a light aircraft crashed into the roof of a private villa in Prykarpattia in western Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon, the English...

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com A number of people have been considering and planning to retire in Eretz Yisroel.  However, who said that it is just for retiring? There is...

NEW YORK (JTA) - One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company’s board chair for the first ti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday condemned an incident in which a swastika was carved into an elevator wall at the State Department's main headquarter...

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com They come daily.  They are collecting for tzedakah.  And they come during davening. GREATNESS OF TEFILLAH The classic work entitled the ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — At least 50 professors at the City University of New York have quit their union following passage of a resolution condemning Israel. The New York Post on Sunday...

 NEW YORK (JNS) - Tour de France, meet the Tour de Simcha and Bike4Chai. While the 23-day, 2,000-mile Tour de France is an impressive ride geared to the world’s most elite r...