Religious Affairs Minister Announces Kashrus Reform, No More ‘Rabbinate’ Kashrus
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel's Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana announced a dramatic reform in the kashrus field, in which the Israeli Chief Rabbinate will cease to give ...
Opinion: “My Unorthodox Life” – Is it Racism?
NEW YORK (VINnews/By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)- When our great-grandparents came off the boat from Tzarist Russia in the early twenties, some were lucky enough to get a job ...
Attention Kosher Supermarkets & Shoppers – It’s Time to Boycott Anti Semitic Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Company
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an unprecedented and blatantly political move, ice cream giant Ben and Jerry's announced Monday that it would not be selling its ice cream in the OPT- "Occu...
Arrest Made In Borough Park Jewish Boy Scooter Theft
BROOKLYN (VINnews) - A Brooklyn man has been arrested by the NYPD for robbing a six year old Chasidic boy of an electric scooter that he was riding in the heart of Borough Park two...
Anger As French Protesters Compare Vaccines To Nazi Horrors
PARIS (AP) — A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French offi...
President Herzog, Foreign Minister Slam Orthodox Disruption Of Egalitarian Service Near Western Wall
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — President Herzog, Foreign Minister and Alternative Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other government officials condemned Sunday the disruption by orthodox elemen...
Bennett Backtracks On Temple Mount After Pressure From Arab Coalition Members And Jordan
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For a brief moment on Tisha B'Av it appeared that the Bennett administration had succeeded in achieving a major breakthrough regarding Temple Mount, the most ...
Despite State’s Objections, Yeshiva Student Who Cared For Childless Couple Will Inherit All Their Possessions
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Jerusalem yeshiva student now in his 30's who for many years helped a childless elderly man has inherited all of the possessions of the man, despite the ob...
Urgent Tefillos Needed for the Rosh Yeshiva of Long Beach
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Please daven for Yoseph Yitzchok ben Gittel - The Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta of Long Beach - Rav Yitzchok Feigelstock shlita, who is in need of r...
Pope Francis Restricts Latin Mass That Caused Controversy With Jews
ROME (JTA) - Pope Francis has restricted the use of the Latin Mass, a form of the liturgy favored by traditionalist Catholics that calls for the conversion of the Jews and that unt...
Naftali Bennett Hints At Change In Temple Mount Prayer Policy
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed, contrary to current policy, that Jews had “freedom of worship” on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as more than 1,00...
WATCH: Jewish Beating Victim Speaks Out in Video Interview
BROOKLYN (VINnews) - In a New York Post (https://bit.ly/3kw1kvn) interview, a 41 year old Orthodox Jewish man described how he was viciously beaten as he walked to the synagogue la...
Watch: Jews Are Once Again Praying On Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the national mourning for 1951 years on Tisha B'av, the day when both temples were destroyed, there are some signs of hope on Temple Mount itself in r...
6 Mussar Thoughts From Rav Henoch Leibowitz zt”l on Parshas Dvarim
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Rav Henoch Leibowitz zt"l was one of the Gedolei HaMussar of the past generation. He headed the Rabbinical Seminary of America - Yeshivas Cho...
5 Towns 4th Grader Selling Lemonade and Fine Judaica for Chai Lifeline
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
This young lady is an entrepreneur with her heart in the right place. She is selling lemonade, Kool Aid, and yes, fine art Judaica, in order...
VIDEO: Frum Flatbush Man Beaten Bloody By Thugs On His Way To Shul
FLATBUSH (VINnews) — A Jewish man was visciously attacked and left bloodied by two thugs, while heading to Shul on Friday morning.
The incident occurred Friday mornig at approxi...
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Picture Of Dog In Kippa And Talis And Is Inundated With Anti-Semitic Abuse
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Nobody is invulnerable to anti-Semitic abuse on social media - not even Mark Zuckerberg's cute wooly dog Beast, which suffered a stream of anti-Israel and anti...
The Little-Known Chesed Of Surfside Victim Mr. Harry Rosenberg Z”L
We lost a friend.
It’s well known by now that Harry Rosenberg, his daughter and son-in-law, Malky and Benny Weisz a”h were among the victims of the Surfside condo collapse. The ...
Legendary Transcriber of Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Speeches Dies at 91
BROOKLYN (VINnews) - Rabbi Yoel Cohen, a preeminent expert on the teachings of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away on Thursday at a Manhattan hospital.
Recognized even as a ...
‘It’s A Moment I Will Never Forget,’ Says Washington Nationals Draft Pick Elie Kligman
NEW YORK (JNS) - Jewish baseball history was made for a second time this week when on Tuesday, 18-year-old Elie Kligman, an Orthodox Jewish teen from Nevada, was drafted by the Was...