BREAKING UPDATE: Jeff Hafif Gives Get After 17 Years, More Rallies Planned For Other Get Refusers
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jeff Hafif, a man who withheld a Get for 17 years while marrying a second woman, finally gave a Get on Sunday morning.
This breaking update follows a report...
Avigdor Liberman: ‘I Would Take Chareidim On Wheelbarrow To Nearest Garbage Dump’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman broke new records this weekend in inciting against the Chareidi public. In a Friday night interview on Channel 12, Lib...
VIDEOS: Boro Park Boy Kidnapped In Erev Shabbos Carjacking, Threatened At Knifepoint
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a horrifically frightening event, a Jewish boy was the victim of a brief kidnapping situation on Friday, shortly before Shabbos.
The incident unfolded on...
For Over 40 Years, This Man Bought Millions Of Dollars Of NYC’s Leavened Bread Products Before Passover
NEW YORK (JTA) - For decades, dozens of Orthodox rabbis would gather in a New York City synagogue on the morning before Passover and, one by one, sell millions of dollars worth of ...
ELIZABETH IS FREE! Flatbush Agunah Receives Get As Momentum Builds To Support Trapped Women
By Shmiel Soiferman
Who says social media is bad?
Social media and the rallies that social media have brought about – have accomplished the near impossible – pressuring recal...
Israeli Study Finds Vaccinated Mothers Pass Coronavirus Antibodies To Newborns
JERUSALEM (JNS) - A new Israeli study found that breastfeeding mothers vaccinated against the coronavirus are able to pass on antibodies to their babies through breast milk.
“En...
WATCH: Flatbush Man Who Withheld Get For 17 Years Arrested For Domestic Violence
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Flatbush man who is infamous for withholding a Get for 17 years was arrested Thursday afternoon amid serious allegations of domestic violence.
Dibo (Jeff)...
Singapore Security Detains 20-Year-Old Man Planning Attack On Synagogue
SINGAPORE (JNS) - Singapore security officials have arrested a 20-year-old serviceman for planning to carry out an attack on Jews outside a local synagogue.
Amirull Ali targeted...
Eight Vizhnitz Admorim To Participate in Yahrzeit Tish For Vizhnitz-Monsey Rebbe
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A historic meeting will take place this coming Shabbos as eight Vizhnitz admorim will hold a joint tish in the Beis Midrash Levush Mordechai- Vizhnitz in Monse...
Justice Department Reaches Agreement With New Jersey Town After Accusations Of Religious Zoning Bias
TOMS RIVER (JNS) - The U.S. Department of Justice reached an agreement on Tuesday with the Township of Toms River, N.J., stemming from allegations that the town’s zoning laws had u...
Larger Than Life – Sheloshim Of Rabbi Sheftel Neuberger
The following article is via Baltimore Jewish Life:
Rav Sheftel Neuberger z’l was a study in contrasts.
He was a born leader who spent his life following in the footsteps of ...
Florida Holocaust Survivor Reunited With Childhood Friend 80 Years After Losing Contact
NEW YORK (JTA) — Holocaust survivors who were best friends in Germany were reunited more than 80 years after they last saw each other.
Betty Grebenschikoff from St. Petersburg, ...
Shuvu Children Visit Gedolim Who Tested Them Prior To Siyum Hashas
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The notion that a secular Israeli boy whose parents have little connection to Judaism would even consider learning in a school which teaches Torah is utterly ...
Grandson Of Ari Fuld HY’D, Murdered By Terrorist In 2018, Named Ari Oz In His Memory
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The bris of the grandson of Ari Fuld HY'D took place in the Gush Etzion region Wednesday and the proud new parents, Michiah and Tamar Beasley, named their son...
Norwegian City Declines 2 Holocaust Survivors’ Request To Move To Country’s Only Jewish Nursing Home
NEW YORK (JTA) — A city in Norway is refusing to let two Holocaust survivors move to the country’s only Jewish nursing home in Oslo.
The Skien municipality earlier this year dec...
This Sefer by Rav Shlomo Feivel Shustal Will be a Classic
Reviewed by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
It is a sefer that was just released and is now entirely sold out.
It was written by HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Feivel...
Thousands Of Orthodox Jews Participated In A COVID-19 Study Last Year. The First Results Are In.
NEW YORK (JTA) - One year after COVID-19 first walloped Jewish communities in the United States, a scientific study has confirmed something that many in the communities have long b...
German Jews Raise $40,000 To Prevent Bankruptcy Of Halle Kebab Shop Targeted In Deadly Attack By Neo-Nazi
PARIS (JTA) - Jewish students in Germany have raised more than $40,000 to help the owner of the kebab shop in Halle that was attacked after a neo-Nazi gunman was unable to enter a ...
Julian Edelman Invites Meyers Leonard To Shabbat Dinner After The NBA Player Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Slur
MIAMI (JTA) - Jewish NFL star Julian Edelman is offering Meyers Leonard an open hand after the NBA player apologized for saying the word “kike” during a video game livestream.
E...
Tel Aviv’s Jewish Museum Reopens After $100 Million Upgrade
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — From Queen Salome to the late RBG, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, Tel Aviv's newly revamped Museum of the Jewish People attempts the ambitious undertaking of b...