Rabbis: Unvaccinated Worshippers May Not Pray In Synagogue
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Rabbis in Israel are launching a campaign against COVID-19 vaccine refusal, including a recent rabbinical ruling that unvaccinated individuals may not enter synag...
WATCH: Despite Taliban Takeover, Afghanistan’s Last Jew Opts To Remain
KABUL (JNS) - Despite the takeover of Afghanistan this week by the Taliban, the country’s last remaining Jew said on Tuesday that he intends to stay.
In an interview with the Ne...
Watch: Historic Gur Wedding Takes Place At Vizhnitz Beis Medrash In Monsey
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The historic wedding of the Gerrer Rebbe's granddaughter took place Tuesday evening in Monsey, N.Y. at the Vizhnitz Beis Midrash. Thousands of chasidim attende...
BDE: 19-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Tragically Shot And Killed Outside Denver Yeshiva
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a tragic incident which occurred outside the Denver Yeshiva, a 19-year-old yeshiva student was shot and killed early Wednesday morning.
The victim was s...
Ichud Hatzalah Or ‘Yichud Hatzalah’ : Extremists Attack United Hatzalah For Training Female EMTs
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Extremist chareidi elements in Jerusalem are accusing United Hatzalah of transgressing prohibitions of yichud by training female EMTs to go to emergency calls...
Will Polish Anti-Restitution Law Permanently Harm Ties With Israel, Jewish Community?
NEW YORK (JNS/DMITRIY SHAPIRO) - Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a bill passed by the Polish legislature on Aug. 14 that would...
Senior Chabad Rabbi In Israel: Those Who Oppose Vaccinations Should Not Enter Shuls
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaruslavski, the senior Chabad rabbi in Israel who also serves as rabbi of the Chabad community in Kiryat Malachi, has issued a sharp le...
The Vilna Gaon versus the Rabbi
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It is well into Elul now, and there is a halachic topic that isn't often discussed. It is about listening to the local Rav, The following il...
MK Rothman Slams EU For Funding Construction Of Convicted Terrorist’s Home On Israeli Territory
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the last few weeks the EU has been assisting in the construction of a house for murderous terrorist Rizaq Abu Salah, who murdered Israeli soldier Guy F...
Rav Shlomo Miller Shlita’s Halachic Views Appear in a New Sefer
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The world owes a debt of gratitude to Rabbi Shmuel Honigwachs of Lakewood, NJ for bringing to light over 200 rulings from HaGaon HaRav Shlomo ...
Watch: Chareidi Runner Beatie Deutsch Is Face Of Adidas’s ‘Impossible Is Nothing’ Campaign
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi marathon runner Beatie Deutsch just missed the cutoff for the Olympic 2020 marathon race, but even getting close to an Olympic time is pretty amazing...
UPDATED!! Identifying the Shanghai Bais Yaakov Teachers and Students
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Boruch Hashem, there are now Beis Yaakov's across the country and across the world. It was a movement that was started, of course, by Sara Sch...
Arizona Is The 8th State To Launch Review Into Possible Ben & Jerry’s Sanctions
ARIZONA (JTA) — Arizona has become the eighth state to begin reviewing whether Ben & Jerry’s plans to withdraw from doing business in the West Bank merits sanctions under its l...
Israeli Government To Discuss Lowering Military Exemption Age From 24 To 21
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government is set to discuss the framework which would allow the exemption age from military service to be lowered from 24 to 21. The goal of this...
Holocaust Researchers In Poland Win Libel Case On Appeal
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An appellate court in Poland on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars in a case that has been closely watched because it was expect...
IDF Soldiers From Chareidi Battalion Nab Armed Terrorist Dressed In Fake IDF Uniform
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF soldiers in the Binyamin region arrested a Palestinian in his 20's on Monday afternoon dressed in a soldier's uniform. The terrorist was identified by loc...
Israel’s Benevolent Heroes Revealed
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A social media page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulIsraelis) silhouetting Israelis who go out of their way to help others in unique ways has publis...
Watch: Metzudah Winery Gutted In Jerusalem Hills Fire
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The fire which spread Sunday in the Jerusalem Hills destroyed 17,000 dunams of forests, four times more than the fire last June which broke out near Neve Ilan...
Melbourne Jewish Engagement Party Flouting Lockdown Angers Local Gov’t: ‘Dangerous, Selfish Behavior’
NEW YORK (VINnews/JTA) — Video from a packed engagement party is roiling the Jewish community of Melbourne, Australia, amid a growing outbreak of COVID-19 that has extended yet ano...
2020 US Census Shows Significant Increases In Major Jewish Communities in Northeast Of US
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Data from the 2020 Census Bureau which have just been released show B'H a significant increase over the previous 2010 Census in the number of people in the maj...
