What You Need to Know About Tzom Gedaliah and Aseres Yemei Teshuvah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Immediately after Rosh haShana we observe Tzom Gedaliah.
This year, 2021, the fast begins at 5:06 AM NY Time when using dawn degrees (or at...
Man Found Guilty Of Jewish Restaurant Attack In Germany
BERLIN (AP) — A 30-year-old German man was found guilty Wednesday of an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish restaurant three years ago in the eastern German city of Chemnitz in which t...
Slovakia Government Apologizes For WWII Anti-Jew Laws
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government apologized on Wednesday for World War II legislation that stripped the country’s Jews of their human and civil rights.
Marking ...
VIDEO: Afghanistan’s Last Jew Leaves After Taliban Takeover
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The last member of Afghanistan's Jewish community has left the country.
Zebulon Simentov, who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul, kept kosher an...
London Police Arrest Suspect In 6 Recent Assaults On Jews
LONDON (JTA) - Police in London have arrested a man in connection with a series of six assaults on Jews in areas of the city with large Jewish communities.
The assaults began Au...
A 700-Year-Old Rosh Hashanah Prayerbook Is Going On Auction For $4 Million
NEW YORK (JTA) - If you find your synagogue’s prayerbook a little dull at Rosh Hashanah services next week, you may be able to buy a livelier — and much older — alternative for nex...
Creators Of Ruined Unity Torah Vow To Write A New One
A viral video of Sefer Torahs being rescued during Hurricane Ida left all who saw it shaken...but was a personal shock to the 3 individuals who spearheaded the writing of one of th...
Head of Forum Of Meron Tragedy Families: Chareidi Activists Tried To Bribe Us Not To Establish Commission Of Enquiry
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yisrael Diskind, brother of Simcha Bunim Diskind who was killed in the Meron tragedy, has been the driving force behind the establishment of the commission o...
In Rare Operation, Siamese Twins Successfully Separated At Soroka Medical Center, Beersheva
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A rare operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins took place at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva last week.
The baby girls were born attached toge...
A Hasidic Rabbi Created A Shabbat Jacket For Carrying Guns In Synagogues
SOUTH FLORIDA (JTA) — Rabbi Raziel Cohen doesn’t want you to have to draw a gun in synagogue. But if you must, he doesn’t want you to waste precious time unbuttoning your kapota, a...
Orthodox Rabbis Encourage Their Communities To Take The COVID Vaccine Ahead Of Rosh Hashanah
NEW YORK (JTA) - Rabbis in multiple Orthodox communities are urging their members to take the COVID-19 vaccine in the days before Rosh Hashanah.
As cases and deaths from the Del...
Dirshu to Present Special Videocast to Provide Chizuk and Inspiration for Yomim Noraim
By Chaim Gold
Following their 7th Annual Yom Limud and Tefilla this September 1st, Dirshu will subsequently present a special videocast which will premiere on Motzoei Shabb...
Orthodox Jewish Good Samaritan Says Highway Tire Change Just the Right Thing to Do
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - A Flatbush resident whose good deed became the talk of social media is downplaying the incident, saying that it was a kindness that anyone would ha...
Motty Steinmetz Shmita Clip Raises Ire Of Religious Affairs Minister- ‘Propaganda Against Heter Mechira’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A clip by Motty Steinmetz in support of farmers who are keeping Shmita (leaving their fields fallow during the upcoming Jewish year which is the seventh year ...
Group Distributes ‘Trauma Kits’ To Shuls Ahead Of High Holidays
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, an organization in South Florida is distributing “trauma kits" to Jewish houses of worship that help treat life-threatening injurie...
An Aerial Banner Said ‘Jew, I Have A Question.’ It Turned Out To Be A Marriage Proposal.
FLORIDA (JTA) — The banner, dragged by a plane last week across the Florida sky, looked disconcerting.
“Jew, I have a question,” it said.
Certainly it was a moment made for T...
Randomized Trial By Yale Researchers: Masks Effective In Preventing Infection
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A randomized trial conducted by researchers from Yale, Stanford and Berkeley universities has demonstrated the effectiveness of masks in preventing infection, ...
Williamsburg Woman Fatally Struck By Vehicle While Walking With Child
WILLIAMSBURG (VINnews) — A woman was tragically killed in Williamsburg on Thursday, while walking with a child.
According to reports, the woman was babysitting the child, when s...
Australia’s Victoria State Advances Ban On Swastika Display
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BDE: Rav Shmuel Dovid Weissmandel Passes Away During Flooding
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a tragic turn of events, Rav Shmuel Weissmandel of Kiryat Nitra passed away Wednesday night, while driving through the flooding to Mount Kisco.
The incid...