Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef To Tunisian Jews: If You’re Going To Secular Neighborhood, Don’t Come To Israel
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, author of the Yalkut Yosef 30-volume halachic compendium, recently visited Tunisia and was asked by a local Jewish perso...
FM Lapid Embarrasses Israel By Blessing America On Independence Day With Wrong Flag
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Foreign Minister and Alternative Prime Minister Yair Lapid has made a number of unfortunate statements since entering the ministry, including an embarrassing ...
Terror Widow Lost Wedding Ring In Judean Desert Spring, Palestinian Worker Retrieves It
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yael Shevach lost her husband Raziel in a 2018 terror attack near her Samarian home of Havat Gilad. Shevach vowed to continue to raise her six children in an ...
Arab Leader To Jordanian Media: ‘At Present We Can’t Take Weapons For Jihad, We Adopt Civilian Jihad’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During one of the long filibusters organized by the opposition in an attempt to thwart government legislators this week, MK Orit Struk (Religious Zionism) dec...
75th Anniversary Of Kielce Massacre Marked – But Not By The Polish Government
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Despite the tensions between Israel and the Polish government over the new law barring Jews from appealing seizure of property by the government after 30 years...
Surfside: The Halachic Lessons – UPDATED
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Everyone is deeply saddened by the events that have taken place at Champlain Towers. And at the same time, everyone is inspired by the giving n...
Polish Rallygoer Who Led Chants About Hanging ‘Zionists’ Sentenced To 1 Year In Jail, An Unusually Stiff Punishment
BIALYSTOK (JTA) — Two ultranationalists in Poland were sentenced to prison in connection with a 2016 rally that featured chants about hanging “Zionists.”
One of the participants...
Sen. Chuck Schumer Arranges Visa For Jewish Girl To Obtain Urgent Care In U.S.
MANCHESTER (VINnews) — A Jewish girl and her family who were at the brink of despair can now breathe a little easier, due to the efforts of Sen. Chuck Schumer and other politicians...
Report: Massachusetts Gunman Likely Planned To Target Synagogue In Shooting Spree
BOSTON (JNS) - Witnesses said a gunman was likely headed toward a synagogue in Winthrop, Mass., on Saturday when he stopped along the way and killed two black bystanders before bei...
Jerusalem Parents Shocked After 19 Magnets Discovered In Baby’s Stomach
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last week a one-year-old baby was rushed to the Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, suffering from high fever and shivering.
The pediatrician w...
When President Biden Heard Rivlin’s Aide Rivka Ravitz Is Mother Of 12, He Bowed Down To Her
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jewish people sometimes take for granted the incredible sacrifice involved in the lives of Jewish career women who have large families. Many of these women are...
Suspect Identified After Chabad Rabbi Stabbed In Boston
BOSTON (VINnews) - Police have identified the suspect responsible for the stabbing earlier today of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski.
Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton is the suspect in the sta...
Rabbi Pinchas Korf, 86, Beloved Chassidic Mentor and Role Model
NEW YORK (CHABAD.org/Yaakov Ort) - Rabbi Pinchas Korf, a beloved Chassidic mashpia (mentor) whose endearing smile, indefatigable energy and blazing inner fire influenced and inspir...
When The Lubavitcher Rebbe Spoke About Not Giving Up On Souls Buried In Rubble
SURFSIDE (VINnews) — This Shabbos, hundreds of thousands of Jews will learn in Daf Yomi the Mishnah in Yuma (83a) about the laws of clearing the rubble of a collapsed building to s...
Mystery Surfside Young Jewish Girl Whose Tehillim Caught Mayor’s Attention Meets with Biden
SURFSIDE (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - A young Jewish girl who made international headlines after being mentioned by the mayor of Surfside, Florida met today with President Biden during ...
Senior IDF Officer Collapses And Dies During Training 3 Days After Becoming Nahal Brigade Commander
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A senior IDF officer collapsed and died Thursday during a fitness training session at an Israeli military base.
Col. Sharon Asman had just taken command of...
Rabbi Stabbed Outside Synagogue in Boston
BOSTON (Chabad.org/ Mordechai Lightstone) - Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was repeatedly stabbed today outside of the Shaloh House Jewish Day School in Brighton, Mass. Nog...
After Failing To Equate Islamophobia With Anti-Semitism, Black Equity Officer Is Fired
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an astonishing display of insensitivity regarding the unique phenomenon of anti-Semitism, the director of the worldwide professional organization for childr...
Report: Fatal Monsey Assisted Living Fire Linked To Passover Cleaning
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — A father and son charged in a deadly fire at a suburban New York assisted living facility had been performing a pre-Passover cleaning ritual that involve...
Israel Welcomes German Leader As Ally Against Antisemitism
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's president warmly welcomed his German counterpart on Thursday, praising him as an ally in combatting antisemitism.
German President Frank-Walter Steinme...