Florida Jewish Community Sends Food To Police Precinct After Officer Was Shot Nearby
HOLLYWOOD,FL (JTA) - When a police officer with the Hollywood Police Department was shot and killed during an armed robbery Sunday, it hit the local South Florida Jewish community ...
Israel, UAE Sign Historic Deal To Collaborate On Space Projects Including Determining Time Of New Moon
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel and the UAE signed a historic deal Wednesday to collaborate on space missions including the Israeli rocket ship Beresheet 2 which is bound for the moon...
Gidon Sa’ar Submits Bill To Prevent MK Under Indictment From Forming Govt., Likud: ‘Anti-Democratic Law’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Justice Minister Gidon Sa'ar revealed Tuesday the text of a bill which would bar a Knesset member charged with a serious crime from forming a governme...
FM Lieberman’s New Tax On Disposable Plastic Targets Chareidim: ‘Let Them Use A Dishwasher’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman searched for creative ways to improve the budgetary situation while at the same time targeting the chareidi communi...
Ancient Jewish Prayer Book Sells For Record-Breaking $8.3 Million
NEW YORK (JNS) - A medieval Jewish prayer book sold for $8.3 million at the Sotheby’s auction house on Tuesday, fetching the highest price ever paid for a Hebrew manuscript.
Kno...
Israeli Court Exonerates Monsey Child Safety Activist for Describing Convicted Pedophile as an Armed Terrorist
MONSEY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - Five years after being sued for libel for warning Har Nof parents on social media to consider a convicted sex offender in their neighborhood as dange...
Police Officer Gunned Down In Jewish Florida Neighborhood
EMERALD HILLS, FLORIDA (VINnews) — A 28-year-old police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty on Sunday night in Hollywood, Florida.
The tragic incident unfolded in th...
After Excelling In Evening Classes, 600 Russian Jewish Youths Fly To Dubai For Unique Jewish Experience
NEW YORK (VINnews) — 600 Russian Jewish youths from numerous locations in Russia flew on special chartered flights to Dubai as part of a unique experience spearheaded by “YaHaD”, t...
Portugal Honors Diplomat Who Saved Thousands From Nazis
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal paid official homage Tuesday to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who during World War II helped save thousands of people from Nazi ...
Of Thrift Shops, Extra Simcha Food, and Agunos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Virtually everyone has heard someone use the expression, “Hey, that’s Bal Tashchis!”
That expression is rather famous. But the expression ...
Israeli Scuba Diver Discovers Ancient Crusader Sword
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.
Israel's Antiquities Au...
Ex-Nazi Camp Secretary, 96, Appears In Court For Indictment
BERLIN (AP) — A 96-year-old former secretary for the Stutthof concentration camp’s SS commander appeared before a court in northern Germany on Tuesday to formally hear the charges ...
Ramat Gan Mayor Says City Will Sponsor Two Posters With Women For Every One Defaced
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Ramat Gan mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen announced in a Facebook post that his municipality would fund two posters with pictures of women for every poster defaced...
German Israeli Singer At Crux Of Anti-Semitic Hotel Incident Accused Of Fabricating Story
BERLIN (JNS) - Gil Ofarim, the German Israeli singer who accused the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany, of refusing him service because he wore a Star of David pendant is now being ...
U.K. Government Kills 2-Year-Old Jewish Toddler Alta Fixsler [WATCH LEVAYA HERE]
MANCHESTER (VINnews) — In a tragic and outrageous turn of events, the life of a 2-year-old Jewish girl was ripped away on Monday by the U.K. government.
At this point, most read...
Man Arrested In Fatal Shooting Of South Florida Officer In Jewish Community of Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — An 18-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting a Florida police officer during an altercation, officials said Monday.
Officers responded Sunday night t...
Sites Where Germans Killed Jews Are Dedicated In Poland
WOJSLAWICE, Poland (AP) — The Polish witnesses of the German crime in Wojslawice lived for decades with the memories of their Jewish neighbors executed in 1942. They remembered a m...
The Wild, Wild, Kosher Hotel Heter
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
A “heter” means a leniency, or a dispensation to allow something that might otherwise be considered forbidden.
It happened at a Pesach hote...
City Transformer, Israeli Compact Car Company, Teams Up With United Hatzalah In $22M Deal
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli automotive company City Transformer, creator of a compact electric car which can shrink in size to squeeze through traffic and into parking spaces, ha...
3 Shuvu Banim Members Arrested In Connection To 2 Unsolved Murder Cases In Jerusalem 30 Years Ago
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli police arrested three members of the Shuvu Banim sect on suspicion of involvement in two unsolved murders which took place in the 1980's. The three su...